EGI Conference 2024 in Lecce

The 2024 edition of the EGI Conference was held in Lecce from 30 September to 4 October. The program addressed several key issues, including data management, integrating diverse technologies, like high-throughput computing, cloud and high-performance computing...

SLUBStick attacks

SLUBStick is a kernel exploit technique that elevates a heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read/write primitive. It works in several steps: first, it exploits a timing side channel of the allocator to reliably perform a cross-cache attack on commonly used...

HIGH risk vulnerability in libndp – CVE-2024-5564

There is a HIGH-risk vulnerability CVE-2024-5564 in libndp. This flaw allows a local malicious user to cause a buffer overflow in NetworkManager, triggered by sending a malformed IPv6 router advertisement packet. Further information on this vulnerability can be found...