Re: Proposal: Add separate oss-security-vulnerability-reports mailing list (for AI vulnpocalypse)
Solar Designer says oss-security volume and subscriber churn remain elevated amid AI vulnerability-report floods.
Solar Designer says oss-security volume and subscriber churn remain elevated amid AI vulnerability-report floods.
oss-security thread proposes hashing sorted Module.symvers CRCs under CONFIG_MODVERSIONS to fix four Linux local root vulnerabilities without breaking module ABI.
Perl DBI before 1.653 loads arbitrary modules via unvalidated DBD::DBM dbm_type and dbm_mldbm attributes, enabling code execution with attacker-controlled attributes.
Exim released security update 4.100.1 addressing vulnerabilities in the widely used open-source mail transfer agent; details remain sparse.
oss-security thread on removing dead code after the gpg.fail retrospective, with Peter Gutmann describing a decade-long deprecation and removal process.
Follow-up on four Linux local root vulnerabilities dubbed DirtyAH6, PPPoEject, TUNderflow, and DiagSpill, advising kernel attack surface reduction as mitigation.
Four local root privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, aged 10-21 years, disclosed as CVE-2026-80844, CVE-2026-81000, CVE-2026-68121, and CVE-2026-74469.
oss-security discussion cites DejaGnu's removed test-timeout feature as a rare case where dead code removal had security implications.
PCRE2 10.48 released with security fixes; seven vulnerabilities assigned CVEs including CVE-2026-86145 and CVE-2026-89156 through CVE-2026-89162.
oss-security maintainer Solar Designer explains the list moderates by content rather than sender domain amid ongoing AI-generated spam postings.
oss-security contributor Joe Krause warns that emails from mail provider cock.li, which he says hosts many script kiddies, should be treated as spam.
oss-security moderator Solar Designer says he may reject repetitive AI-generated postings after debate over AI slop submissions.
oss-security commenter argues AI models remain human-built algorithms while reflecting on recent AI-slop incidents in open-source
Eli Schwartz on the oss-security list criticizes AI-generated 'slop' posts from 'Eve', urging the community to stop anthropomorphizing bots.
oss-security moderator Solar Designer approved three AI-generated vulnerability reports from automated security researcher Eve, sparking debate over AI slop on the list.
libpcap 1.10.7 fixes seven vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-31912 affecting the deprecated bpf_filter(), and all users are advised to update.
libfuse 3.18.3 disables fuse_session_custom_io() by default to stop non-kernel peers from forging FUSE requests libfuse parses unvalidated.
Linux kernel developers discuss a batch of 21 local privilege escalation CVEs, including ZcopyReaper (CVE-2026-43502) in the RDS networking driver.
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