The bug is identified as CVE-2019-18408, a high-priority ‘use-after-free’ bug when dealing with a failed archive.
Tag Archives: freebsd
Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD
Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow attackers to induce a denial-of-service by clogging networking I/O.
Thunderclap: Apple Macs at risk from malicious Thunderbolt peripherals
Researchers have revealed how malicious Thunderbolt and PCI Express (PCIe) peripherals could be used to compromise computers running macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
SSCC 187 – The cryptography edition [PODCAST]
Sophos expert John Shier sits in for regular presenter Chester Wisniewski in this episode. John and Paul Ducklin dissect the latest security issues, which were dominated this week by some thorny matters of cryptography.
FreeBSD and the YARNBUG – more trouble at the Random Number Mill
How do you test your random number generator? How do you determine, in an ordered way, that a sequence of numbers is entirely disordered? With difficulty!