CVE-2017-7342

A weak password recovery process vulnerability in Fortinet FortiPortal versions 4.0.0 and below allows an attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via a hidden Close button...

CVE-2018-17493

eVisitorPass could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error with the Fullscreen button. By visiting the kiosk and clicking the full screen button in the bottom right, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to close the program and launch other...

Vulnerability of the connect() and close() functions in Linux kernel, allowing attackers to gain unauthorized access to protected information

The vulnerability of the connect and close functions in the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to synchronization errors when using shared resources „Race Conditions“. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to protected information using the AFVSOC...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-8397

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.10.4 library. There is an out of bounds read in the function H5Tclosereal in H5T.c...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Configuration King 7.5sp2

KingView is an industrial automation configuration software produced by Beijing Asian Control Technology Development Co. A denial of service vulnerability exists in KingView 7.5sp2. The vulnerability stems from the use of wcslen to read the length of a string when closing a file and failing to...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1145)

The USB subsystem mishandles size checks during the reading of an extra descriptor, related to usbgetextradescriptor in drivers/usb/core/usb.c.CVE-2018-20169 A flaw was found where an attacker may be able to have an uncontrolled read to kernel-memory from within a vm guest. A race condition betwe...

Managing JIRA Scrum Sprints using API

Atlassian Jira is a great tool for organizing Agile processes, especially Scrum. But managing Scrum Sprints manually using Jira web GUI maybe time consuming and annoying. So, I decided to automate some routine operations using JIRA API and Python. The API calls are described on the official page ...

Fedora 28 : curl (2018-fdc4ca8675)

SASL password overflow via integer overflow CVE-2018-16839 - fix use-after-free in handle close CVE-2018-16840 - fix bad arethmetic when outputting warnings to stderr CVE-2018-16842 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2018:3624-1)

This update for curl fixes the following issues : CVE-2018-16839: A SASL password overflow via integer overflow was fixed which could lead to crashes bsc1112758 CVE-2018-16840: A use-after-free in SASL handle close was fixed which could lead to crashes bsc1112758 CVE-2018-16842: A Out-of-bounds...

CVE-2018-9547

CVE-2018-9547 impacts Android 8.1 and 9, specifically the GraphicBuffer.cpp unflatten path. Description: a bad file descriptor close due to insufficient input validation could allow local escalation of privilege in the system server, with no user interaction required. The issue affects the Androi...

Inspiring Gender Diversity at Women of the Channel Leadership Summit

At Trend Micro we’re proud to be walking the talk on gender diversity — from our co-founder and CEO, Eva Chen, all the way down. It’s always been a keen part of our corporate culture, from the very beginning 30 years ago. But we also realize that there’s still a major diversity challenge facing t...

Closing the Gap: An Exciting Initiative to Drive More Gender Diversity in Tech

We all know there’s a global IT skills crisis. In cybersecurity things are even worse, with a shortfall of nearly three million roles estimated today — 500,000 of which are in North America. Today women comprise just 24% of the workforce yet half of the global population. Why is this? Women were...

CVE-2018-1786

IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 dsmc and dsmcad processes incorrectly accumulate TCP/IP sockets in a CLOSEWAIT state. This can cause TCP/IP resource leakage and may result in a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 148871...

Haxx curl resource management error vulnerability

Haxx curl is a set of file transfer tools from the Swedish company Haxx that utilize URL syntax to work at the command line. The tool supports file uploads and downloads and includes a libcurl client-side URL transfer library for program development. A resource management error vulnerability in t...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16840

A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl versions from 7.59.0 through 7.61.1 in the code related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an 'easy' handle in the Curlclose function, the library code first frees a struct without nulling the pointer and might then subsequently...

use after free in handle close

libcurl contains a heap use after free flaw in code related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an "easy" handle in the Curlclose function, the library code first frees a struct without clearing the pointer and might then subsequently erroneously write to a struct field within...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16840

A heap use-after-free flaw was found in curl versions from 7.59.0 through 7.61.1 in the code related to closing an easy handle. When closing and cleaning up an 'easy' handle in the Curlclose function, the library code first frees a struct without nulling the pointer and might then subsequently...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package curl version 7.62.0-alt1

Oct. 31, 2018 Anton Farygin 7.62.0-alt1 - 7.62.0 - fixes: CVE-2018-16839 - buffer overrun in the SASL authentication code. CVE-2018-16840 - use-after-free in handle close CVE-2018-16842 - warning message out-of-buffer read...

kernel: NULL pointer dereference if close and fchownat system calls share a socket file descriptor

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the Linux kernel. If the close and fchownat system calls share a socket file descriptor as an argument, then the two calls can race and trigger a NULL pointer dereference leading to a system crash and a denial of service...

GHSA-3X7H-5HFR-HVJM Moderate severity vulnerability that affects io.undertow:undertow-core

It was found in Undertow before 1.3.28 that with non-clean TCP close, the Websocket server gets into infinite loop on every IO thread, effectively causing DoS...