Activity Stream Gadget causing high memory/CPU consumption

+Problem Definition+ Activity Stream Gadget causing high memory/CPU consumption when there is 1 million+ of records in the AO563AEEACTIVITYENTITY table. In this particular case, found that majority of these records are from 3rd party plugins Insight. However, do note that this can happen to any...

Upgrading to Citrix Receiver for Windows

Beginning August 2018, Citrix Receiver has been replaced by Citrix Workspace app. While you can still download older versions of Citrix Receiver, new features and enhancements will be released for Citrix Workspace App. ​​​​​​​ Citrix Receiver for Windows has evolved to meet the platform and user...

August 16, 2017—KB4034661 (OS Build 14393.1613)

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Cleaning up my GOPATH with Homebrew

tl;dr: use the script at the bottom to go get into the Homebrew "Cellar" and keep your GOPATH clean. I personally like GOPATH and import paths, but while trying to reduce my laptop to a thin reproducible client, I felt the pain of keeping track of the hundreds of repositories that end up in there...

CVE-2017-8452

Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes...

PYSEC-2017-119

There is an invalid free in the Action::TaskFactory::cleanup function of actions.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack...

CVE-2017-11337

There is an invalid free in the Action::TaskFactory::cleanup function of actions.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack...

Exiv2 'Action::TaskFactory::cleanup' function denial of service vulnerability

Exiv2 is a cross-platform C++ library and command line utility for managing image metadata. A security vulnerability exists in the 'Action::TaskFactory::cleanup' function of the actions.cpp file in Exiv2 version 0.26. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2017-1723)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2017-1723 advisory. - mm enlarge stack guard gap Larry Woodman 1452729 1452730 CVE-2017-1000364 CVE-2017-1000366 - fs nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops J. Bruce...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9935

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the t2pwritepdf function in tools/tiff2pdf.c. This heap overflow could lead to different damages. For example, a crafted TIFF document can lead to an out-of-bounds read in TIFFCleanup, an invalid free in TIFFClose or t2pfree, memory...

Microsoft Says Fireball Malware Threat 'Overblown'

Check Point has ramped down its projections on the impact of the recently disclosed Fireball malware after Microsoft called its initial numbers into question. Details on Fireball were published June 1 by Check Point, which said the malware was the work of a Chinese digital marketing agency called...

Breaking the attack chain

The attack chain. It’s a term used often in infosecurity. Also known as the kill chain, it was originally used as a military concept to describe the structure of an attack. It serves the same function in cybersecurity, where various methods of malware infiltration, deployment, and execution are...

CVE-2017-8452

Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes...

Design/Logic Flaw

Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes...

CVE-2017-8452

Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes...

CVE-2017-8452

Kibana versions prior to 5.2.1 configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7514

OpenStack Ironic 4.2.0 through 4.2.1 does not "clean" the disk after use, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information...

openSUSE Security Update : java-1_7_0-openjdk (openSUSE-2017-629)

This update for java-170-openjdk fixes the following issues : - Update to 2.6.10 - OpenJDK 7u141 bsc1034849 - Security fixes - S8163520, CVE-2017-3509: Reuse cache entries - S8163528, CVE-2017-3511: Better library loading - S8165626, CVE-2017-3512: Improved window framing - S8167110, CVE-2017-351...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9078

The server in Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow post-authentication root remote code execution because of a double free in cleanup of TCP listeners when the -a option is enabled...

SUSE-SU-2017:1347-1 Security update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

The following security issue in spacewalk-backend has been fixed: - Non admin or disabled user cannot make changes to a system anymore using spacewalk-channel. bsc1026633, CVE-2017-7470 Additionally, the following non-security issues have been fixed: rhnlib: - Support all TLS versions in rpclib...