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Security Leftovers
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Security Week ☛ Nightmare Eclipse Drops CrowdStrike, Nvidia, Avast Zero-Day Exploits
The proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits lead to privilege escalation, spawning a shell with System privileges.
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LWN ☛ Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, freerdp, gegl04, go-fdo-client, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, and pipewire), Debian (aom, chromium, libde265, libssh2, thunderbird, and tryton-server), Fedora (chromium, composer, cosmic-greeter, gegl04, greetd, ibus-table, jss, libheif, lightdm, lxdm, memcached, perl-DBD-Pg, plasma-login-manager, rust-webbrowser, sddm, selinux-policy, slitherer, and tkimg), Mageia (expat, mingw-expat, mbedtls, microcode, python-linkify-it-py, and tomcat), Oracle (buildah, container-tools:ol8, dbus-broker, freerdp, go-toolset:ol8, grafana-pcp, kernel, kernel-uek, nodejs24, php, and pipewire), Slackware (libpcap, libxml2, mozilla-firefox, mozilla-thunderbird, and util-linux), SUSE (bson-devel, busybox, bzip2, c-ares, cpio, cups-filters, dracut, ffmpeg-7, ffmpeg-8, file-roller, firefox, firefox-esr, glances-common, grafana, hauler, helm, helm3, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, lcms2, libcupsfilters, libheif, libmsgpack-c2, libsoup, libsoup2, libusb-1_0, libvirt, LibVNCServer, mcphost, ollama, opencode, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, php-composer2, podman, postgresql15, postgresql17, postgresql18, python, python-aiohttp, python-h2, python-sqlparse, python310, rpcbind, sssd, thunderbird, trivy, ucode-intel, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-7.0, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-hwe-7.0, linux-realtime, linux, linux-aws, linux-fips, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux, linux-fips, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-fips, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-raspi, linux-realtime, linux-realtime-6.8, linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-fips, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-realtime, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gcp-7.0, linux-oem-7.0, minetest, and miniupnpd).
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Security Week ☛ North Korean Hackers Deploy New GNU/Linux Espionage Toolkit
The stealthy toolkit embeds a backdoor in HAProxy and targets automotive and media organizations in South Korea for long-term surveillance.
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Bleeping Computer ☛ Magento StyleSmuggler zero-day exploited to deploy Linux backdoor [Ed: Proprietary Adobe issue, not a Linux issue]
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Security Week ☛ Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores
The StyleSmuggler zero-day allows attackers to execute code and deploy a stealthy backdoor on Adobe Commerce and Magento stores.
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Security Week ☛ Modified ScreenConnect Clients Used in Worm-Like Campaign
The attacks rely on backdoored ScreenConnect instances to transfer and execute payloads to newly connected clients.