Parent PID Spoofing

Monitoring the relationships between parent and child processes is very common technique for threat hunting teams to detect malicious activities. For example if PowerShell is… Continue reading - Parent PID Spoofing...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2019-1462)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

CVE-2019-1549 Fork Protection

OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random number generator RNG. This was intended to include protection in the event of a fork system call in order to ensure that the parent and child processes did not share the same RNG state. However this protection was not being used in the default case. A...

Information Disclosure

PHP is vulnerable to information disclosure. It has dumpable FPM child processes which allow bypassing opcache access controls because fpmunix.c calls PRSETDUMPABLE prctl...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : coreutils Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0107)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has coreutils packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with ro...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : util-linux (EulerOS-SA-2019-1462)

According to the version of the util-linux packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A race condition was found in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use thi...

Code injection

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4 releases 2.4.17 to 2.4.38, with MPM event, worker or prefork, code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the parent process usually roo...

CVE-2019-0211

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4 releases 2.4.17 to 2.4.38, with MPM event, worker or prefork, code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the parent process usually roo...

CVE-2019-0211

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4 releases 2.4.17 to 2.4.38, with MPM event, worker or prefork, code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the parent process usually roo...

CVE-2019-0211

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4 releases 2.4.17 to 2.4.38, with MPM event, worker or prefork, code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the parent process usually roo...

PHP 7.2.x < 7.2.4 Dumpable FPM Child Processes

According to its banner, the version of PHP running on the remote web server is 7.2.x prior to 7.2.4. It is, therefore, affected by opcache access controls bypass via dumpable FPM child processes. Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php7 (SUSE-SU-2018:1176-1)

This update for php7 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-10545: Fix access controls in FPM child processes bsc1091367. - CVE-2018-10547: Fix Reflected XSS on the PHAR 403 and 404 error pages bsc1091362. - CVE-2018-10546: Fix an infinite loop exists in ext/iconv/iconv.c...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php5 (SUSE-SU-2018:1291-1)

This update for php5 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-10545: Fix access controls in FPM child processes bsc1091367. - CVE-2018-10547: Fix Reflected XSS on the PHAR 403 and 404 error pages bsc1091362. - CVE-2018-10546: Fix an infinite loop exists in ext/iconv/iconv.c...

(Pwn2Own) Apple macOS task_set_special_port Port Overwrite Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of Apple macOS. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of Mach...

Dynamic API Call Tracer for Windows and Linux Applications: Drltrace

Drltrace is a dynamic API calls tracer for Windows and Linux applications designed primarily for malware analysis. Drltrace is built on top of DynamoRIO dynamic binary instrumentation framework. Motivation Malware analysis is not an easy task. Sophisticated software packers like Themida and...

Input validation

The report-viewing feature in Pearson VUE Certiport Console 8 and IQSystem 7 before 2018-06-26 mishandles child processes and consequently launches Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge as Administrator, which allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2018-12989

The report-viewing feature in Pearson VUE Certiport Console 8 and IQSystem 7 before 2018-06-26 mishandles child processes and consequently launches Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge as Administrator, which allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2017-2616

A race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions...

CVE-2017-2616

A race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions...

Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Network Security is affected by a vulnerability in coreutils (util-linux)

Summary A security vulnerability has been discovered in coreutils util-linux, which is used by IBM QRadar Network Security. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-2616 DESCRIPTION: util-linux could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition whe...