Stewart Russell on Nostr: Maybe I haven't read enough CVEs, but I've never seen one described as "Severity: ...
Maybe I haven't read enough CVEs, but I've never seen one described as "Severity: grave" before:
ckermit: CVE-2025-68920: Malicious remote can overwrite and exfiltrate local files —
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1123025(this was perfectly innocent behaviour when ckermit was written in the 1980s)
Published at
2026-07-13 12:40:31 UTCEvent JSON
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