A critical vulnerability – CVE-2024-6387 – has been discovered in OpenSSH, a widely used suite of secure networking utilities. This flaw, stemming from a signal handler race condition, poses critical risks including potential unauthorised remote code execution (RCE). Affected versions include 8.5p1 up to, but not including, 9.8p1, impacting numerous major Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu. 

This article covers recent vulnerabilities found to be actively exploited. They are categorised based not only on the category of exploitation, but their impact, and versions affected. This article also informs on any official fix and remediation guidance for the listed vulnerabilities.