Security

Security

Nobody Patches the Pooler

PgBouncer 1.26.0 came out on September 23 and fixes three CVEs. Two of them can be triggered by anyone who can open a TCP connection to the listener. They need no password and no valid username. If PgBouncer sits anywhere a hostile packet can reach it, upgrade before you finish reading this.

Now that you’ve started the upgrade, here

Concern Troll is Concerned: Verifone vs Square

Suppose a major manufacturer of computer keyboards announced a very serious security problem with a specific competitor’s keyboard: Someone could plug this keyboard into a computer running a malicious app, and cause a user to enter sensitive information. Thus, the manufacturer demands that their competitor recall all of these “insecure” keyboards.

Anyone with the technical sense of a rock

Why I run qmail

There’s a very nasty root exim exploit in the wild.

Updated: To be fair to the hard-working exim team, this bug was fixed some time ago.