{"id":4402,"date":"2025-06-04T05:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/new-linux-vulnerabilities-html\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:04:40","slug":"new-linux-vulnerabilities-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/new-linux-vulnerabilities-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New Linux Vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>New Linux Vulnerabilities<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/new-linux-flaws-allow-password-hash.html\">interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openwall.com\/lists\/oss-security\/2025\/05\/29\/3\">CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598<\/a>, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. Tools like Apport and systemd-coredump are designed to handle crash reporting and core dumps in Linux systems.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that if a local attacker manages to induce a crash in a privileged process and quickly replaces it with another one with the same process ID that resides inside a mount and pid namespace, apport will attempt to forward the core dump (which might contain sensitive information belonging to the original, privileged process) into the namespace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moderate severity, but definitely worth fixing.<\/p>\n<p>Slashdot <a href=\"https:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/06\/02\/0140228\/new-moderate-linux-flaw-allows-password-hash-theft-via-core-dumps-in-ubuntu-rhel-fedora\">thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/06\/new-linux-vulnerabilities.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Linux Vulnerabilities They\u2019re interesting: Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. Tools like Apport and systemd-coredump are designed to handle crash reporting and core dumps in Linux systems. [\u2026] \u201cThis means that if a local attacker manages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,406,554,1,416],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-linux","category-passwords","category-uncategorized","category-vulnerabilities","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}