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Security: Pegasus, Updates, PHP-FPM Patch, and Diffoscope 189

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 29th of October 2021 10:03:21 PM Filed under
Security
  • Supreme Court Delivered on Initial Expectations on Pegasus, Follow-Up Crucial | OPINION

    Of the three branches of government in India, the judiciary has been forced to carry the burden of protecting the people’s right to privacy. Since 2017 when the court held that the right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution—triggered by government lawyers formally submitting that it was not a fundamental right—there have not been any significant legislative enactments or executive actions to safeguard this right.

    On the contrary, threats to privacy and freedom of expression have been mounting through growing surveillance and cyber intrusion activity, intermediary rules that undermine internet freedom, and the lack of a data protection law.

    Therefore, when the Pegasus project revealed that several Indian journalists, ministers, activists, and others had been spied on, and the government failed to provide answers, all hopes were pegged on the Supreme Court.

  • Security updates for Friday

    Security updates have been issued by Debian (bind9, gpsd, jbig2dec, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tzdata, webkit2gtk, and wpewebkit), Fedora (flatpak, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, and php), SUSE (qemu), and Ubuntu (bind9).

  • 10-Year-Old PHP-FPM Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered

    The vulnerability allows a low-privilege user to escalate his privileges to root using a bug in PHP-FPM.

    PHP is one of the most commonly used programming languages on the planet. As you know it is a programming language originally designed for use in web-based applications with HTML content.

  • Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 189 released

    The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 189. This version includes the following changes:

    [ Chris Lamb ]
* Try some alternative suffixes (eg. ".py") to support distributions that
  strip or retain them. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#283)
* Skip Python bytecode testing where we do not have an expected diff.
  (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#284)
* Refactor the find_executable utility into an explicit method.
* Split out a custom call to assert_diff to support a .startswith equivalent.
* Use skipif instead of manual conditionals in some tests.

[ Vagrant Cascadian ]
* Add an external tool reference for Guix to support ppudump and dumppdf.

[ Sergei Trofimovich ]
* Update uImage test output for file(1) version 5.41.

[ Jelle van der Waa ]
* Add Arch Linux as CI test target.
* Add external tools on Arch Linux for ffmpeg, openssl and ocalobjinfo.
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