CVE-2020-15703

There is no input validation on the Locale property in an apt transaction. An unprivileged user can supply a full path to a writable directory, which lets aptd read a file as root. Having a symlink in place results in an error message if the file exists, and no error otherwise. This way an...

CISA and FBI Release Joint Advisory on Iranian APT Actor Targeting Voter Registration Data

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint cybersecurity advisory on an Iranian advanced persistent threat APT actor targeting U.S. state websites, including elections websites, to obtain voter registration data. Joi...

How the Crypto Challenge as Action Helped a Major Airline Reduce False Positives While Protecting the Customer Experience

Challenges of Bot Detection: Keeping Defenses High Without Triggering False Positives Identifying bots is important and complicated work. Keeping up with ever-changing bot technologies and attack strategies requires deep knowledge and continuous threat research. The outbreak of the COVID-19...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1766-1 Security update for tensorflow2

This update for tensorflow2 fixes the following issues: - updated to 2.1.2 with following fixes boo1177022: Fixes an undefined behavior causing a segfault in tf.rawops.Switch CVE-2020-15190 Fixes three vulnerabilities in conversion to DLPack format CVE-2020-15191, CVE-2020-15192, CVE-2020-15193...

F5 BIG-IP AFM Denial of Service Vulnerability

F5 BIG-IP APM is a suite of access and security solutions from F5 USA. The product provides unified access to business-critical applications and networks. A denial of service vulnerability exists in F5 BIG-IP AFM, which can be exploited by an attacker to trigger a denial of service via a fatal...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

firefox is vulnerable to remote code execution RCE. The vulnerability exists through an undefined behavior in bounded channel of crossbeam rust crate...

About the security content of iTunes 12.9 for Windows - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

CVE-2020-15266 Undefined behavior in Tensorflow

In Tensorflow before version 2.4.0, when the boxes argument of tf.image.cropandresize has a very large value, the CPU kernel implementation receives it as a C++ nan floating point value. Attempting to operate on this is undefined behavior which later produces a segmentation fault. The issue is...

Information Disclosure

containerd is vulnerable to information disclosure. The containerd resolver sends the authentication credentials when it follows a URL to attempt to download a specific image layer. An attacker is able to exploit this behavior to obtain the authentication credentials by publishing a public image...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when the Windows Installer fails to properly sanitize input leading to an insecure library loading behavior. A locally authenticated attacker could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then...

What's Next for Edge Delivery

Access to media through the internet is a huge part of how so many in the world are entertained, informed, and even educated nowadays. And 2020 has shined an even greater light on that fact as many around the world have needed to adjust to life during a pandemic. At Akamai, we saw traffic deliver...

How Covid fatigue puts your physical and digital health in jeopardy

After six months of social distancing, sheltering in place, working from home, distance learning, mask-wearing, hand-washing, and plenty of hand-wringing, people are pretty damn tired of COVID-19. And with no magic bullet yet and no end in sight, annoyance has turned into exasperation and even...

Never Leave Your Cloud Database Publicly Accessible

Introduction In cybersecurity, we often hear about best practices, one of the most important of which is never to open services that should be for internal use to public access. These are best practices for a good reason - when you don’t follow them, you might be hacked! Research we conducted in...

CVE-2020-16124

Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in the XML RPC library of OpenRobotics roscomm communications packages allows unauthenticated network traffic to cause unexpected behavior. This issue affects: OpenRobotics roscomm communications packages Noetic and prior versions. Fixed in...

CVE-2020-16124

Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in the XML RPC library of OpenRobotics roscomm communications packages allows unauthenticated network traffic to cause unexpected behavior. This issue affects: OpenRobotics roscomm communications packages Noetic and prior versions. Fixed in...

CVE-2020-16124: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in the XML RPC library of OpenRobotics roscomm communications packages allows unauthenticated network traffic to cause unexpected behavior. This issue affects: OpenRobotics roscomm communications packages Noetic and prior versions. Fixed in...

Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives to Support Your Cloud Journey

61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year. 93% have a multi-cloud strategy.1 This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and your costs. While the cloud has delivered on a lot of promises, it isn't getting simpler or...

What's New in Edge Delivery

Welcome to day two of the Akamai Platform Update! Today, we're focusing on Akamai's edge delivery products as well as other complimentary products that help drive great digital experiences. The last several months have been nothing short of unprecedented as lockdowns, quarantines, and other...

Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks

Cybercriminals are tapping into Amazon’s annual discount shopping campaign for subscribers, Prime Day, with researchers warning of a recent spike in phishing and malicious websites that are fraudulently using the Amazon brand. There has been a spike in the number of new monthly phishing and...

CVE-2020-15665

Firefox did not reset the address bar after the beforeunload dialog was shown if the user chose to remain on the page. This could have resulted in an incorrect URL being shown when used in conjunction with other unexpected browser behaviors. This vulnerability affects Firefox 80...