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Severe remote code execution vulnerability in Vim text editor: PoC published

On: March 31, 2022

In: Vulnerabilities

Tagged: Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), Cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, hackers, Hacking, incidents, Information Security, security flaws, Unix, use-after-free, Vim, vulnerability

Cybersecurity specialists report the detection of a critical vulnerability in Vim, the improved version of the Vi text editor, present in all UNIX systems and developed by Bram Moolenaar inRead More →

Ubuntu vulnerability in Graphical Display Manager allows gaining root privileges easily

On: November 11, 2020

In: Vulnerabilities

Tagged: cybersecurity, GNOME, Hacking, Ubuntu, Unix, vulnerability

Cybersecurity specialists report finding a vulnerability in GNOME Display Manager (gdm) that could allow users with reduced privileges to create elevated accounts on Ubuntu systems. Although certain requirements for theRead More →