Linux Security Hybrid

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime, which may result in denial of service, information disclosure or weakened TLS connections.

Two vunlerabilities were found in libxslt, the XSLT 1.0 processing library, which may lead to information disclosure and DoS attack. CVE-2023-40403

Update to 1.26.3.

Update to 1.26.3.

Update to 1.26.3.

Update to 1.26.3.

Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, booters”or IP stressers, as they’re also called”represent one of those shadowy operations that nearly seem like they belong to a hacker movie.

Managing CPU security mitigations has always been one of those balancing acts that systems administrators live and breathe but rarely get applause for. After all, striking the right trade-off between performance and protection is easier said than done, especially when speculative execution vulnerabilities”those infamous flaws with names like Spectre and Meltdown”linger in the mix.

If you’re managing a Linux environment, on-prem or in the cloud, chances are you’ve already tangled with questions of network security: firewalls, SSH hardening , package integrity checks ” all the usual suspects. But Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)?

Ever wonder how a seemingly minor bug in memory management can crack open a door for attackers to slip through? Meet the use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability”an elusive and dangerous class of memory corruption flaw that has plagued Linux systems (and others) for years.