USN-7230-3: FRR regression

MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password

Decade-old vulnerability in OpenSSH is now fixed, so get a-patchin'

*sshole: OpenSSH Authentication Bypass Gives Attackers Root on Alpine Linux

A critical authentication bypass, with no CVE assigned yet, was disclosed in OpenSSH on musl-based Linux distributions such as Alpine. An unauthenticated attacker can log in over SSH password authentication as an account that should not accept passwords at all, including root. On a default Alpine install that means root access from a single connection, […]

OpenAI built an AI pipeline to find, exploit and patch Linux flaws

OpenAI has developed an autonomous AI pipeline that can identify software vulnerabilities, develop working exploits to validate their impact and generate patches for human review. In an October experiment targeting the Linux kernel, the pipeline created exploits for 948 distinct local privilege-escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities at a total API cost of $1.2 million, the company said in a November 4 research report, “A t…