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Security & Cryptography desk
Post-quantum TLS ships while lattice schemes crack under AI and process fights
IETF makes hybrid ML-KEM key agreement a Proposed Standard just as an AI-found attack kills HAWK and pure-ML-KEM last call draws public process and security objections.
Rsync 3.5.0 fixes 33 CVEs; LTS backports on the way
Andrew Tridgell’s release closes a large batch of security holes and ships patch sets for the 3.2.7 and 3.4.1 lines used by long-term distro builds.
AI lattice break sinks HAWK as SSH races to adopt ML-DSA
An AI-found key-recovery attack forced HAWK out of NIST's signature on-ramp just as the IETF SSH working group split over pure and hybrid ML-DSA drafts, exposing both technical fragility and process strain under compressed post-quantum timelines.
Rails Active Storage flaw allows arbitrary file reads via image variants
Unauthenticated attackers can leak server secrets, and potentially escalate to RCE, on apps using libvips with untrusted uploads.
Claude finds a real attack on HAWK, and the NIST forum verifies it
Anthropic says its Claude Mythos Preview model found the key-recovery attack largely on its own, in about 60 hours for roughly $100,000 in compute. Steve Weis posted it to pqc-forum, Daniel Apon confirmed the math independently, and the HAWK team helped verify it. HAWK is a NIST candidate, not deployed, so no software has to change.
Linux OVS datapath bug yields local root via wrapped Netlink lengths
CVE-2026-64531 lets an unprivileged user with network-namespace control turn oversized nested actions into kernel code execution on common distro configs.
CVE triage under flood: when volume outruns judgment
A single-day blast of hundreds of kernel CVEs, arriving beside real high-impact bugs in snapd, QEMU, and libraries, forces the old argument over mass assignment into operational terms.
Linux kernel assigns 432 CVEs in 30 hours
A flood of kernel CVE IDs renews debate over whether individual triage is still a workable security practice.