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Writer. Father. Husband. Blogger. History buff. Heavy Metal fanatic. Rebellious Catholic. Frequent traveler. In his day job, Brenner writes about threats to Internet security as seen from his vantage point as Senior Security Tech Writer at Akamai Technologies research center. He also blogs about the wider security industry at Liquidmatrix.org and writes about mental health issues at theocddiaries.com. Opinions are his own.
Articles by Bill Brenner
Microsoft Patches Wormable RCE Vulns in Remote Desktop Services
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  8/13/2019
The Mainframe Is Seeing a Resurgence. Is Security Keeping Pace?
Ray Overby, Co-Founder & President at Key Resources, Inc.,  8/15/2019
GitHub Named in Capital One Breach Lawsuit
Dark Reading Staff 8/14/2019
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CVE-2019-15224
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-19
The rest-client gem 1.6.13 for Ruby, as distributed on RubyGems.org, included a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party.
CVE-2019-15225
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-19
In Envoy through 1.11.1, users may configure a route to match incoming path headers via the libstdc++ regular expression implementation. A remote attacker may send a request with a very long URI to result in a denial of service (memory consumption). This is a related issue to CVE-2019-14993.
CVE-2019-15223
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-19
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.1.8. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the sound/usb/line6/driver.c driver.
CVE-2019-15211
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-19
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.2.6. There is a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c driver because drivers/media/radio/radio-raremono.c does not properly allocate memory.
CVE-2019-15212
PUBLISHED: 2019-08-19
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.1.8. There is a double-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/rio500.c driver.