Security: Patches, Flaws and ZDNet FUD

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Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (file and firefox), Debian (apache-log4j1.2), Fedora (chromium, dovecot, GraphicsMagick, kubernetes, libvpx, makepasswd, matio, and slurm), Mageia (libtomcrypt, ming, oniguruma, opencv, pcsc-lite, phpmyadmin, and thunderbird), openSUSE (chromium, chromium, re2, and mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss), Red Hat (chromium-browser, firefox, and rabbitmq-server), Slackware (mozilla), and SUSE (crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, openstack-horizon-plugin-monasca-ui, openstack-monasca-api, openstack-monasca-log-api, openstack-neutron, rubygem-puma, rubygem-rest-client, firefox, libzypp, and openssl-1_1).
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Arm Chips Vulnerable to PAN Bypass – “We All Know it’s Broken”
Memory access protections baked into the ARMv8 64-bit specification are vulnerable to being bypassed – and the Arm team has only just mitigated the bug, which would allow an attacker to circumvent its “Privileged Access Never” (PAN) controls in the kernel.
PAN, introduced in 2014, is a meant to prevent privileged access to user data unless explicitly enabled – as a security mechanism against possible software attacks.
A Linux kernel commit message on January 6 this year acknowledges the issue and puts in place a stop-gap measure. But one security researcher, “Siguza” says they originally found the flaw in October 2018 and that PAN “was never an issue to get around”.
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Microsoft spots malicious npm package stealing data from UNIX systems [Ed: Typical ZDNet paints Microsoft as good and FOSS or Linux/UNIX as bad/dangerous: "Microsoft spots malicious npm package stealing data from UNIX systems"]
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Microsoft Catches Infected npm Package Targeting UNIX Systems [Ed: The anti-Linux Microsoft spinners, including Bogdan Popa in this case, have really been spinning this a lot]