NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0064)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - The type inference system allows the compilation of functions that can cause type confusions between arbitrary objects when compiled through the...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0159)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A possible vulnerability exists where type confusion can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects in object groups, allowing for the bypassing of...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0062)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has thunderbird packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Incorrect convexity calculations in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 72.0.3626.81 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0167)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A possible vulnerability exists where type confusion can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects in object groups, allowing for the bypassing of security...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 5.04 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0011)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 5.04, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 58 and Firefox ESR 52.6. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0116)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - File downloads encoded with blob: and data: URL elements bypassed normal file download checks though the Phishing and Malware Protection feature and its block...

Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records

Some kids play in a band after school. Bill Demirkapi hacked two education software giants...

Critical: thunderbird

Issue Overview: When an inner window is reused, it does not consider the use of document.domain for cross-origin protections. If pages on different subdomains ever cooperatively use document.domain, then either page can abuse this to inject script into arbitrary pages on the other subdomain, even...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

13-Year-Old Encryption Bugs Still Haunt Apps and IoT

RSA encryption has been around for decades. Unfortunately, so have bad implementations that leave it less secure...

SUSE-SU-2019:2073-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-20855: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel In createqpcommon in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c, mlx5ibcreateqpresp was never initialized,...

SUSE-SU-2019:2072-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-20855: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel In createqpcommon in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c, mlx5ibcreateqpresp was never initialized, resulting...

SUSE-SU-2019:2068-1 Security update for the Linux Azure Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-20855: An issue was discovered in createqpcommon, mlx5ibcreateqpresp was never initialized, resulting in a leak of stack memory to userspace...

Millions of Android Smartphones Vulnerable to Trio of Qualcomm Bugs

UPDATE Security researchers from Tencent’s Blade Team are warning Android smartphone and tablet users of flaws in Qualcomm chipsets, called QualPwn. The bugs collectively allow hackers to compromise Android devices remotely simply by sending malicious packets over-the-air – no user interaction...

CVE-2019-14665

Brandy 1.20.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in definearray in variables.c via crafted BASIC source code...

Google and ARM Tackle Android Bugs with Memory-Tagging

Aiming at improving the security of the Android ecosystem, Google has partnered up with mobile silicon-maker ARM to implement a hardware-based bug detection tool specifically for memory-safety vulnerabilities. Dubbed the memory-tagging extension MTE, the feature helps mitigate these kinds of bugs...

How To Build a Better Bug Bounty Program

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. Every software company in the world, regardless of whether the...

CVE-2019-14663

Brandy 1.20.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in fileioopenin in fileio.c via crafted BASIC source code...

kernel security update

kernel - 2.6.18-419.0.0.0.14 - x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry Thomas Gleixner orabug 29821515 CVE-2018-12126 CVE-2018-12130 CVE-2018-12127 CVE-2019-11091 - x86/speculation/mds: Call VERW on NMI path when returning to user Patrick Colp orabug 29821515...

For $8.6M, Cisco Settles Suit Over Bug-Riddled Video Surveillance Software

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged it sold video security software with known security vulnerabilities to U.S. federal and state governments. The litigation, originally brought in 2011, was filed under the False Claims Act, claiming that the software...