Hyped up curl vulnerability falls short of expectations

October 12, 2023 at 10:34AM Curl 8.4.0 has been released to address a high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2023-38546), which caused concerns about its impact. The release includes fixes for two vulnerabilities: a high-severity heap buffer overflow bug and a low-severity cookie injection flaw. The exploit for the heap buffer overflow bug requires specific configurations and timing, … Read more

Unpatched Vulnerabilities Expose Yifan Industrial Routers to Attacks

October 12, 2023 at 07:39AM Chinese company Yifan’s industrial routers are vulnerable to critical security flaws, according to Cisco’s Talos. Yifan was given 90 days to release patches, but none have been issued. The flaws can allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands, change admin credentials, and access devices with admin privileges. All vulnerabilities can be … Read more

October 10, 2023 at 10:33AM – Fresh curl tomorrow will patch ‘worst’ security flaw in ages

October 10, 2023 at 10:33AM Curl version 8.4.0 is set to be released tomorrow, addressing two security flaws. One of the flaws is considered the worst security flaw in curl in a long time. The update will address CVE-2023-38545, affecting both libcurl and the curl tool, and CVE-2023-38546, affecting libcurl only. The update does not … Read more

October 10, 2023 at 09:54AM – ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ Zero-Day Exploited to Launch Largest DDoS Attacks in History

October 10, 2023 at 09:54AM A new zero-day vulnerability called ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ has been exploited by malicious actors to launch massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Cloudflare, Google, and AWS have all experienced record-breaking attacks, with the largest reaching 398 million requests per second. The attacks leverage a feature in the HTTP/2 protocol and have … Read more