Fueled by Pandemic Realities, Grinchbots Aggressively Surge in Activity

The festive season is moving into full swing, and so is holiday shopping – including special product launches and sales. But just as we collectively look forward to leisurely browsing for deals from the couch, perhaps with a mug of hot cocoa, “grinchbots” have emerged to burn it all down. Accordi...

Virtual Patching 101

Get the lowdown on virtual patching: a simplified, automated solution to shielding vulnerabilities from exploits...

AirStrike - Automatically Grab And Crack WPA-2 Handshakes With Distributed Client-Server Architecture

Tool that automates cracking of WPA-2 Wi-Fi credentials using client-server architecture Requirements Airstrike uses Hashcat Brain Architecture, aircrack-ng suite, entr utility and some helper scripts. You can use install.sh script to download all dependencies if you're on system which has an...

GSD-2021-1002345 staging: rtl8723bs: remove possible deadlock when disconnect (v2)

staging: rtl8723bs: remove possible deadlock when disconnect v2 This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15.5 by commit...

UVI-2021-1002338 usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()

usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platformgetresource This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15.5 by commit...

GSD-2021-1002338 usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()

usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platformgetresource This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15.5 by commit...

UVI-2021-1002323 iavf: don't clear a lock we don't hold

iavf: don't clear a lock we don't hold This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15.5 by commit c3db4fffb364ac7bf602de115afe69c32a46383...

UVI-2021-1002279 tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup

tipc: check for null after calling kmemdup This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.10.82 by commit...

UVI-2021-1002268 usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()

usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platformgetresource This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.4.162 by commit...

GSD-2021-1002240 usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()

usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platformgetresource This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.14.256 by commit...

GSD-2021-1002236 NFC: reorder the logic in nfc_{un,}register_device

NFC: reorder the logic in nfcun,registerdevice This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.14.256 by commit...

GSD-2021-1002230 usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()

usb: host: ohci-tmio: check return value after calling platformgetresource This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.9.291 by commit...

GSD-2021-1002227 NFC: reorder the logic in nfc_{un,}register_device

NFC: reorder the logic in nfcun,registerdevice This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.9.291 by commit...

GSD-2021-1002223 usb: musb: tusb6010: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()

usb: musb: tusb6010: check return value after calling platformgetresource This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.4.293 by commit...

ELFXtract - An Automated Analysis Tool Used For Enumerating ELF Binaries

ELFXtract is an automated analysis tool used for enumerating ELF binaries Powered by Radare2 and r2ghidra This is specially developed for PWN challenges and it has many automated features It almost displays every details of the ELF and also decompiles its ASM to C code using r2ghidra Decompiling...

The End of the Cybersecurity Skills Crisis (Maybe?)

In just 4 years, you can learn to be fluent in Mandarin. In 2 years, NASA can get you through astronaut training. But the cybersecurity skills gap? It's dire and dead-stuck in its fifth straight year of zero progress. Globally, 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs remain unfilled, and of those candidat...

How Open Systems uses Microsoft tools to improve security maturity

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. We’ve all seen it happen—an organization has all the top-notch security tools in place and still, they get breached. In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, complexity leads to...

GSD-2021-1002206 net: batman-adv: fix error handling

net: batman-adv: fix error handling This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15 by commit 6f68cd634856f8ca93bafd623ba5357e0f648c68, it...

GSD-2021-1002203 octeontx2-af: Fix possible null pointer dereference.

octeontx2-af: Fix possible null pointer dereference. This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15 by commit...

GSD-2021-1002195 mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files

mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15 by commit...