2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Security Vulnerabilities

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:1404)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1404 advisory. kernel: out-of-bounds write in hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc_wait() in drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c...

Top 6 Data Breaches That Cost Millions

“If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too. Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people’s accounts. If they know there’s a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.” - Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc. The entire digital...

Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2024-1248)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1248 advisory. An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Transport Layer Security functionality in how a user calls a function splice...

Amazon Linux 2 : pcs (ALAS-2024-2492)

The version of pcs installed on the remote host is prior to 0.9.169-3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2492 advisory. Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Carefully crafted content type headers can cause Rack's media type parser...

CVE-2024-22259 CVE-2024-22259: Spring Framework URL Parsing with Host Validation (2nd report)

Applications that use UriComponentsBuilder in Spring Framework to parse an externally provided URL (e.g. through a query parameter) AND perform validation checks on the host of the parsed URL may be vulnerable to a open redirect https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/601.html attack or to a SSRF...

CVE-2024-2193

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the....

CVE-2024-2193

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the....

GhostRace – New Data Leak Vulnerability Affects Modern CPUs

A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution. Dubbed GhostRace (CVE-2024-2193), it is a variation of the transient execution CPU vulnerability known as Spectre v1 (CVE-2017-5753). The approach combines...

Improving C++

C++ guru Herb Sutter writes about how we can improve the programming language for better security. The immediate problem "is" that it’s Too Easy By Default™ to write security and safety vulnerabilities in C++ that would have been caught by stricter enforcement of known rules for type, bounds,...

kernel security update

[5.14.0-362.24.1_3.OL9] Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons) Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin) Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237] Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676] Conflict with shim-ia32.....

CVE-2024-2193

A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the CPU using race conditions to access the....

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affects IBM OpenPages

Summary IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition is shipped as a supporting program of IBM OpenPages. Information about a security vulnerability affecting IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition has been published in multiple security bulletins. These products have addressed the applicable CVE(s). For a...

Not everything has to be a massive, global cyber attack

Some of my Webex rooms recently have been blowing up with memes about blaming Canada or wild speculation that a state-sponsored actor is carrying out some sort of major campaign. After a widespread outage of cellular service with AT&T and other carriers a few weeks ago, people were sure it was...

A patched Windows attack surface is still exploitable

On August 8, 2023, Microsoft finally released a kernel patch for a class of vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows since 2015. The vulnerabilities lead to elevation of privilege (EoP), which allows an account with user rights to gain SYSTEM privileges on a vulnerable host. The root cause of...

CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be vulnerable to speculative race conditions

Overview A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution has been discovered. CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution that are vulnerable to Spectre v1 are likely affected. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this...

CVE-2023-38536

HTML injection in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting version 12.5.1. The vulnerability could result in Cross site...

CVE-2023-38535

Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting versions 12.5.1 and 12.5.2. The vulnerability could compromise the cryptographic...

CVE-2023-38534

Improper authentication vulnerability in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting versions 12.5.0 and 12.5.1. The vulnerability could allow disclosure of restricted information in unauthenticated...

Authentication flaw

Improper authentication vulnerability in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting versions 12.5.0 and 12.5.1. The vulnerability could allow disclosure of restricted information in unauthenticated...

Cross site scripting

HTML injection in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting version 12.5.1. The vulnerability could result in Cross site...

Hardcoded credentials

Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting versions 12.5.1 and 12.5.2. The vulnerability could compromise the cryptographic...

CVE-2023-38536

HTML injection in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting version 12.5.1. The vulnerability could result in Cross site...

CVE-2023-38535

Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting versions 12.5.1 and 12.5.2. The vulnerability could compromise the cryptographic...

CVE-2023-38534

Improper authentication vulnerability in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting versions 12.5.0 and 12.5.1. The vulnerability could allow disclosure of restricted information in unauthenticated...

Security Bulletin: Multiple CVEs - Vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Integration Designer

Summary Vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 8 used by IBM Integration Designer. IBM Integration Designer has addressed the following CVEs. Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: CVE-2024-20952 DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Security component...

Security Bulletin: IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software is vulnerable to a remote attack to obtain sensitive information due to an algorithm decryption implementation

Summary IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition, is used by IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software as the runtime and development kit. (CVE-2023-33850) Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: CVE-2023-33850 DESCRIPTION: **IBM GSKit-Crypto could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive...

Microsoft's March Updates Fix 61 Vulnerabilities, Including Critical Hyper-V Flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday released its monthly security update, addressing 61 different security flaws spanning its software, including two critical issues impacting Windows Hyper-V that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. Of the 61 vulnerabilities, two are rated Critical,.....

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0857-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0857-1 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: Fix a potential use after free Free the adap...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0858-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0858-1 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: Fix a potential use...

CVE-2024-26610

A memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN module. This issue could allow a local user to crash the system. Mitigation To mitigate this issue, prevent the iwlwifi module from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to.....

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Versions 8 used by IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility. The IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility have addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details ** IBM X-Force ID: PSIRT-ADV0103951 .....

(RHSA-2024:1248) Important: kernel security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es): kernel: inactive elements in nft_pipapo_walk (CVE-2023-6817) kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nft_trans_gc_catchall_sync leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2024-0193) kernel: ktls...

Speculative Race Conditions (SRCs)

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-7016 Potential Impact: Speculative Race Condition Severity: Varies by CVE, see descriptions below Summary Researchers from IBM Research Europe and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have published a paper titled “GhostRace: Exploiting and Mitigating Speculative Race Conditions.” AMD.....

WebGPU Browser-based GPU Cache Side-Channel

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-6011 Potential Impact: GPU Cache Attacks from the Browser Severity: Summary AMD is aware of a paper titled “Generic and Automated Drive-by GPU Cache Attacks from the Browser” being published by researchers from Graz University of Technology and The University of Rennes. AMD...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK (January 2024) affect IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 8 that is used by IBM InfoSphere Information Server. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2024. Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: CVE-2024-20952 DESCRIPTION: **An...

CVE-2024-26616

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned [BUG] There is a bug report that, on a ext4-converted btrfs, scrub leads to various problems, including: - "unable to find chunk map" errors BTRFS info...

CVE-2024-26616

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned [BUG] There is a bug report that, on a ext4-converted btrfs, scrub leads to various problems, including: "unable to find chunk map" errors BTRFS info...

Design/Logic Flaw

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned [BUG] There is a bug report that, on a ext4-converted btrfs, scrub leads to various problems, including: "unable to find chunk map" errors BTRFS info...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-6688-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6688-1 advisory. Transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol can consist of multiple parts. While not really useful, except for the initial part any of them...

CVE-2024-26616

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: scrub: avoid use-after-free when chunk length is not 64K aligned [BUG] There is a bug report that, on a ext4-converted btrfs, scrub leads to various problems, including: - "unable to find chunk map" errors BTRFS info...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[5.15.0-204.147.6.2] - smb3: Replace smb2pdu 1-element arrays with flex-arrays (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 36353543] - hv_netvsc: Register VF in netvsc_probe if NET_DEVICE_REGISTER missed (Shradha Gupta) [Orabug: 36358874] - hv_netvsc: Fix race condition between netvsc_probe and netvsc_remove...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities may affect IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition for IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications

Summary Multiple Vulnerabilities were disclosed as part of the Oracle Jan 2024 Critical Patch Update. Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: CVE-2024-20918 DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow a remote attacker to cause high confidentiality...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for the Linux (SUSE-SU-2023:0488-1)

The remote host is missing an update for...

Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Security Update February 2024

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, 8* that is used by Rational Application Developer®. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates up to February 2024. IBM 8 SR8 FP20 (1.8.0_401). Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: CVE-2023-22067 ...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect Rational Business Developer

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology used by Rational Business Developer. Rational Business Developer has provided fixes for the applicable CVEs. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK and Runtime Environment updates in the Oracle July 2023...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Versions 8 used by IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility. The IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility have addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: CVE-2024-20952 ...

Security Bulletin: IBM® Db2® is vulnerable to an insecure cryptographic algorithm and to information disclosure in stack trace under exceptional conditions. (CVE-2023-47152)

Summary IBM® Db2® is vulnerable to an insecure cryptographic algorithm and to information disclosure in stack trace under exceptional conditions. Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: CVE-2023-47152 DESCRIPTION: **IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) is vulnerable to an...

CVE-2023-52585

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Fix possible NULL dereference in amdgpu_ras_query_error_status_helper() Return invalid error code -EINVAL for invalid block id. Fixes the below: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ras.c:1183...

Update your iPhones and iPads now: Apple patches security vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS

Apple has released a security update for iOS and iPadOS to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities which are reported to already have been exploited. Zero-day vulnerabilities are discovered by attackers before the software company itself - meaning the vendor has 'zero days' to fix them. Both the two...

CVE-2023-52585

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: Fix possible NULL dereference in amdgpu_ras_query_error_status_helper() Return invalid error code -EINVAL for invalid block id. Fixes the below: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ras.c:1183...