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Linux Vulnerabilities of the Week: March 1, 2021 1. Buffer overflow impacting python 27, python 36 and python 38 Vendor Severity: Medium CVSS Score: 9.8 A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the ctypes module provided within Python.  Applications that...

Top Linux Vulnerabilities for February 2021 1. Linux AMI Security Advisory for samba “Netlogon” on Amazon Linux and RedHat Vendor Severity: Critical Score: 10 A flaw was found in the way samba handled file and directory permissions. An authenticated user...

Linux Vulnerabilities of the Week: February 1, 2021 1. Security update for rubygem-nokogiri for SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 & 9, and SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 Vendor Severity: Important CVSS Score: 9.8 This update for rubygem-nokogiri fixes the following issues:...

Linux Vulnerabilities of the Week: January 29, 2021 1. Samba update for Amzn1 (Amazon AWS), Red Hat Enterprise 6, 7, 8 & Red Hat Storage 3 Vendor Severity: Critical CVSS Score: 10 A flaw was found in the Microsoft Windows...

FreakOut Botnet Freaking Out Linux Administrators FreakOut Botnet Exploiting Linux Vulnerabilities A highly-sophisticated botnet known as FreakOut is targeting applications running on Linux operating systems which require immediate patching. Initial reports indicate this is primarily impacting Linux systems which have...

Top Linux Vulnerabilities for January 1. Samba update for Amzn2 (Amazon AWS), Red Hat Enterprise 7 and Oracle Linux 7 Vendor Severity: Critical CVSS Score: 10 A flaw was found in the way samba handled file and directory permissions. An...

Syxsense Announces New Support for Amazon Web Service (AWS) Linux Devices AWS Linux Devices Support Syxsense, a global leader in SaaS IT and security management solutions, extends support of its cloud-native, real-time architecture to Amazon Web Service (AWS) Linux devices....

The Best Way to Patch Linux OS How to Patch Linux If you ever visit a Patch Tuesday article, you will often find comments about using Linux because of its reliability and lack of updates. This is often a huge...

Who Are the Worst Vendors of 2019? 2019 has brought serious threats causing massive disruption and data theft. Which vendor has released the most software updates and fixes in 2019, and of these, which updates are the most critical? Let’s...

An Attacker Could Take Over Impacted Systems With 3 Commands or Less A security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora....