Fwd: UnrealIRCd 6.2.7 released & hot-patch to fix security issues for existing installations
Clarification: UnrealIRCd Websockets and JSON-RPC interfaces involved in 6.2.7 security fixes are disabled by default.
Sam James forwards the UnrealIRCd 6.2.7 release announcement and clarifies that neither Websockets nor JSON-RPC are enabled by default. This limits exposure of the security issues addressed by the release and accompanying hot-patch for existing installations.
Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co
Researchers demonstrated a remote Spectre attack leaking a JWT between co-located Cloudflare Workers at 12 bits per second, 360x the 2021 rate.
Security researchers showed a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JWT from a co-located Worker at up to 12 bits per second with 99.16% accuracy, 360 times the 2021 demonstration rate. The attack exploited weaknesses in DyPrIs dynamic process isolation, where long-lived Durable Object invocations could run before isolation and WebSocket-heavy I/O suppressed the branch-misprediction signal. Cloudflare deployed improved DyPrIs, the V8 Sandbox, and MPK-based in-process isolation, and found no indicators of active exploitation over three years.