11 articles by Kevin Backhouse.
Announcing GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent, an open source and collaborative framework for security research with AI.
Repo-jacking is a specific type of supply chain attack. This blog post explains what it is, what the risk is, and what you can do to stay safe.
CVE-2023-43641 is a vulnerability in libcue, which can lead to code execution by downloading a file on GNOME.
Code scanning detects ReDoS vulnerabilities automatically, but fixing them isn’t always easy. This blog post describes a 4-step strategy for fixing ReDoS bugs.
How to exploit a double-free vulnerability in Ubuntu’s accountsservice (CVE-2021-3939)
OSS-Fuzz is Google’s awesome fuzzing service for open source projects. GitHub Security Lab’s @kevinbackhouse describes enrolling a project.
The Exiv2 team tightened our security by enabling GitHub’s code scanning feature and adding custom queries tailored to the Exiv2 code base.
When you’re fixing a bug, especially a security vulnerability, you should add a regression test, fix the bug, and find & fix variants.
This blog post is the first in a series about hardening the security of the Exiv2 project. My goal is to share tips that will help you harden the security of your own project.
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.
Ubuntu 20.04 local privilege escalation using vulnerabilities in gdm3 and accountsservice (CVE-2020-16125, CVE-2020-16126, CVE-2020-16127)