Newest Intel Side-Channel Attack Sniffs Out Sensitive Data

Intel processors are vulnerable to a new side-channel attack, which researchers said can allow attackers to steal sensitive information such as encryption keys or passwords. Unlike previous side-channel attacks, this attack does not rely on sharing memory, cache sets and other former tactics...

hw: Fast forward store predictor

A flaw was found in the CPU microarchitecture where a local attacker is able to abuse a timing issue which may allow them to infer internal architectural state from previous executions on the CPU...

Design/Logic Flaw

Microstrategy Web 10.4 exposes the JVM configuration, CPU architecture, installation folder, and other information through the URL /MicroStrategyWS/happyaxis.jsp. An attacker could use this vulnerability to learn more about the environment the application is running in. This issue has been...

CVE-2020-11450

MicroStrategy Web 10.4 is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability where JVM configuration, CPU architecture, installation folder, and other environment details are exposed via /MicroStrategyWS/happyaxis.jsp. The issue enables an attacker to learn about the application environment, whi...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4564-1] linux security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4564-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Ben Hutchings November 12, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Measuring the Security of IoT Devices

In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. Data Collected: 22 Vendors 1,294 Products 4,956 Firmware versions 3,333,411 Binaries analyzed Date range of data: 2003-03-24 to 2019-01-24 varies by vendo...

Intel Windows 10 Graphics Drivers Riddled With Flaws

Intel has patched 19 vulnerabilities across its popular graphics drivers for Windows 10, including two high-severity flaws. CVE-2018-12216 and CVE-2018-12214 could both allow a privileged user to execute arbitrary code via local access, according to an Intel advisory. “Multiple potential security...

APT Trends report Q1 2018

In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the next installment, focusing on...

LizardStresser IoT Botnets Part of 400Gbps DDoS Attacks

LizardStresser, a distributed denial of service botnet, has found new life leveraging hundreds of internet-based webcams in attacks against Brazilian-based banks, government agencies as well as a handful of U.S.-based gaming companies. Researchers at the Arbor’s Security Engineering and Response...

Fedora 21 : pcre-8.35-12.fc21 (2015-11019)

This release fixes two heap buffer overflows when compiling certain regular expressions: CVE-2015-3210 and CVE-2015-5073. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: powerpc-utils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated powerpc-utils packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives...

Fedora 21 : kernel-3.17.3-300.fc21 (2014-15159)

Latest upstream stable release, Linux v3.17.3. A wide variety of fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible witho...

Fedora 17 : libxslt-1.1.26-10.fc17 (2012-14083)

Lot of security fixes and a few other bugs Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEV...

Fedora 11 : xmp-2.7.1-1.fc11 (2009-9675)

Update to latest stable release. Multiple bugfixes and memory leak fixes. Fixes for buffer overflows in DTT and OXM loaders. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean an...

linux/x86 - execve /bin/sh xored for Intel x86 CPUID 41 bytes

linux/x86 execve /bin/sh xored for Intel x86 CPUID 41 bytes. Shellcode exploit for linx86 platform / linux/x86 execve"/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", NULL / xor'ed against Intel x86 CPUID - 41 bytes The idea behind this shellcode is to use a weak pre-shared secret between the attacker and the attacked...