It was discovered that Atop, a monitor tool for system resources and process activity, always tried to connect to the port of atopgpud (an additional daemon gathering GPU statistics not shipped in Debian) while performing insufficient sanitising of the data read from this port.
With this update, additional validation is added and by default atop no longer tries to connect to the atopgpud daemon port unless explicitly enabled via -k.
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5892-1
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With this update, additional validation is added and by default atop no longer tries to connect to the atopgpud daemon port unless explicitly enabled via -k.
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5892-1
Continue reading...
