EGI-CSIRT at NeIC Conference 2024
NeIC Conference 2024 took place at Tallinn from 27th to 29th of May. In the Containers in HPC session, EGI-CSIRT had a talk on Secure Usage of Containers in the HPC environment. We have discussed the security aspects of using containers and the ways in which container...
CRITICAL risk Netfilter vulnerability CVE-2024-1086
A flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue occurs in the nft_verdict_init() function, allowing positive values as a drop error within the hook verdict, therefore, the nf_hook_slow() function can cause a double-free vulnerability when...
EGI-CSIRT at ISC 2024
EGI-CSIRT participated in the ISC High Performance Conference 2024 with a presentation on User Namespaces, are they good, bad or evil? The use of user namespaces reduces the attack surface in the event of a compromise, it allows isolation of the workload, but the...
Security bug-fixes in git
The Git project released new security bug-fix versions on May 14th, 2024: v2.45.1, v2.44.1, v2.43.4, v2.42.2, v2.41.1, v2.40.2, and v2.39.4: CVE-2024-32002: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32002 CVE-2024-32004: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32004...
EGI CSIRT Cybersecurity report for 2023
In 2023, EGI CSIRT has significantly increased the efforts to strengthen global collaboration. We recognise the value of shared knowledge and unified defence strategies. Our engagement has expanded beyond the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) organisations,...
High risk kernel vulnerabilities in RHEL9
There are a large number of CVE’s patched in this RHEL9 release, we have identified the 3 listed above as ‘HIGH’ risk according to our criteria (CVE-2023-6817, CVE-2024-0193, CVE-2024-0646). We have not investigated all the CVE’s in detail, and there is the...
