denial of service vulnerability
Best of 2025: NOT-So-Great Firewall: China Blocks the Web for 74 Min.
HTTPS connections on port 443 received forged replies. Chinese web users couldn’t access websites outside the People’s Republic yesterday. The outage lasted an hour and a quarter—with no explanation. Nobody’s sure whether it ...
NOT-So-Great Firewall: China Blocks the Web for 74 Min.
Xi Whiz: HTTPS connections on port 443 received forged replies ...
No, Elon — X DDoS was NOT by Ukraine
X marks the botnet: Outage outrage was a Ukrainian cyberattack, implies our favorite African billionaire comedy villain ...
2024 Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities: Patch Without Rebooting
Linux kernel vulnerabilities are critical threats that can compromise the stability and security of Linux-based systems. In 2024, several new vulnerabilities have emerged, some of which may lead to memory corruption, crashes, ...
ClamAV Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04
Two security vulnerabilities were discovered in ClamAV, a widely used antivirus software for Linux systems. These issues could allow attackers to compromise the security of your system and potentially gain unauthorized access ...
Recent Python Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu
Multiple vulnerabilities in Python have been identified and patched, with updates available for several Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. These vulnerabilities pose serious security ...
Critical Expat Vulnerabilities Fixed: Urgent Update Required
A recent discovery has highlighted significant security risks within the widely used Expat XML parsing C library. Security researcher Shang-Hung Wan identified three critical Expat vulnerabilities that could potentially lead to denial-of-service ...
Debian Patches Two Dovecot Vulnerabilities
A recent discovery has exposed critical vulnerabilities in the Dovecot mail server, potentially allowing attackers to exploit the IMAP implementation and disrupt service. These vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2024-23184 and CVE-2024-23185, can lead ...
Ubuntu Patches Multiple Vim Vulnerabilities
Recently, Canonical has released security updates to address multiple Vim vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Ubuntu 14.04, codenamed “Trusty Tahr,” reached its end-of-life (EOL) on April 30, 2019. After this date, Canonical ...
Ubuntu Fixes Multiple BusyBox Vulnerabilities
BusyBox, often referred to as the “Swiss Army knife of embedded Linux,” is a compact suite of Unix utilities combined into a single executable. It’s widely used in small and embedded systems ...
