Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6604-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Chatbots and Human Conversation

For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully constructed instructions, delivered through punch cards; then came a command-line interface, followed by menus and options and text boxes. If you...

Protobuf vs JSON

A Beginners Guide to Understanding Protobuf & JSON When you dive into the sphere of data serialization, you're likely to encounter two dominant players - Protobuf, the colloquial term for Protocol Buffers, and JSON, standing for JavaScript Object Notation. Both of these formats carry distinctive...

RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2024:0397)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0397 advisory. Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects. Security Fixes: squid: DoS against...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6602-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6604-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RHEL 8 : libfastjson (RHSA-2024:0411)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0411 advisory. The libfastjson library provides essential JavaScript Object Notation JSON handling functions. The library enables users to construct JSON objects in...

RHEL 9 : tomcat (RHSA-2024:0474)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0474 advisory. Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages JSP technologies. Security Fixes: tomcat: Open Redirect...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6604-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6604-1 advisory. It was discovered that the ASUS HID driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle device removal, leading to a use-after-free...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6602-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6602-1 advisory. Jana Hofmann, Emanuele Vannacci, Cedric Fournet, Boris Kopf, and Oleksii Oleksenko discovered that some AMD processors could leak stale data from divisio...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in DB2 JDBC driver shipped with IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager

Summary DB2 JDBC driver is shipped as part of the XMLToolkit component for IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager. Information about security vulnerabilities affecting DB2 JDBC driver has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2015-8383 DESCRIPTION: PCRE is vulnerable...

GLSA-202401-27 : Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-27 Ruby: Multiple vulnerabilities - An issue was discovered in Ruby through 2.5.8, 2.6.x through 2.6.6, and 2.7.x through 2.7.1. WEBrick, a simple HTTP server bundled with Ruby, had not checked the transfer-encoding header...

SUSE-SU-2024:0196-1 Security Beta update for SUSE Manager Client Tools and Salt

This update fixes the following issues: ansible: - Update to version 2.9.27 jscSLE-23631 jscSLE-24133 bsc1187725 CVE-2021-3620 ansible-connection module discloses sensitive info in traceback error message in 2.9.27 bsc1188061 CVE-2021-3583 Template Injection through yaml multi-line strings with...

Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-6.7.1.5)

The version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 6.7.1.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-6.7.1.5 advisory. - There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0...

Exploring malicious Windows drivers (Part 1): Introduction to the kernel and drivers

Drivers have long been of interest to threat actors, whether they are exploiting vulnerable drivers or creating malicious ones. Malicious drivers are difficult to detect and successfully leveraging one can give an attacker full access to a system. Real-world examples can be found in our previous...

Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : python-cryptography (ELSA-2024-12079)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12079 advisory. - Fix CVE-2023-49083: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates Orabug: 36119159 - Fix CVE-2023-23931: Don't allow updateinto to mutate immutable...

Fedora: Security Advisory for python2.7 (FEDORA-2024-3ab90a5b01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tinyxml (FEDORA-2024-c9dc0ac419)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Apache Tomcat vulnerability (K000138178)

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K000138178 advisory. - Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability in Apache Tomcat.When recycling various internal objects in Apache Tomcat from...

Debian dla-3710 : hyperv-daemons - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3710 advisory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3710-1 [email protected]...