Building a Security Risk Management Program

The frequency of data breaches today highlights the need to peel back the onion on security programs and identify a laser-focused mission and ultimate goal. As a compliance manager, I know the horror stories first hand. Let’s take a deeper dive into security and risk management basics to enable...

Protecting Confidential Data: You May Not Be as Secure as You Think

Part One of a Three Part Series Unless you have been out of the country or otherwise shunning the news, you have likely heard that on September 7th and again on September 15th, Equifax reported that it suffered a security incident from May 13th through July 30th, 2017. This breach is broad reachi...

Taking the Fight Where It Belongs

This Guest blog was written by Robert Mahowald, a Group Vice President at IDC who leads IDC's Worldwide Applications research practice, in addition to co-leading IDC's Cloud Services: Global Overview program. A surprising set of facts emerged from the most recent quarterly installment of IDC's...

MGASA-2017-0343 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.9.50 and fixes at least the following security issues: net/xfrm/xfrmpolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.3, when CONFIGXFRMMIGRATE is enabled, does not ensure that the dir value of xfrmuserpolicyid is XFRMPOLICYMAX or less, which allows local use...

Netdecision 5.8.2 - Local Privilege Escalation

// Netdecision.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. / Exploit Title: Netdecision 5.8.2 - Local Privilege Escalation - Winring0x32.sys Date: 2017.09.17 Exploit Author: Peter Baris Vendor Homepage: www.netmechanica.com Software Link: http://www.netmechanica.com/downloads/...

CVE-2017-8675

The Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers component on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability when the Win32k...

CVE-2017-8675

The Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers component on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability when the Win32k...

Privilege escalation

The Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers component on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability when the Win32k...

CVE-2017-8675

The CVE-2017-8675 entry describes an elevation of privilege in Windows due to a flaw in the Win32k subsystem. Affects: Windows kernel-mode drivers component on Windows versions including Windows Server 2008 SP2/R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 (1...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-1017)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.85 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-14051: An integer overflow in the qla2x00sysfswriteoptromctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qlaattr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to caus...

September 12, 2017—KB4038786 (Security-only update)

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Linux Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-31973)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the driveroverride implementation of the drivers/base/platform.c file in the Linux kernel. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability t...

CVE-2017-10850

Untrusted search path vulnerability (CVE-2017-10850) affects Fuji Xerox DocuCentre-VI and ApeosPort-VI installers. The issue arises from insecure DLL search paths in multiple installers (e.g., ART EX Driver, XPS/PostScript drivers, FAX/Restore tools) and DocuWorks components, allowing an attacker...

CVE-2017-10850

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Installers of ART EX Driver for ApeosPort-VI C7771/C6671/C5571/C4471/C3371/C2271, DocuCentre-VI C7771/C6671/C5571/C4471/C3371/C2271 Timestamp of code signing is before 12 Apr 2017 02:04 UTC., PostScript? Driver + Additional Feature Plug-in + PPD File for...

OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0149)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - From e26560a4b056dad6d85ffd9ebfad9565f210a9cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:22:17 +0100 Subject: PATCH gnttab: don't use domain lock for serialization Instead us...

Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Hiroshima Carsharing App Android Version

Hiroshima Car Sharing App is a car rental software. There is a directory traversal vulnerability in the Android version of Hongyang Shared Car APP, which can be exploited by an attacker to directly view and download sensitive information such as ID card, driver's license, db file, code...

CVE-2017-13694

CVE-2017-13694 affects the Linux kernel up to 4.12.9. The acpi_ps_complete_final_op() function in drivers/acpi/acpica/psobject.c does not flush the node and node_ext caches, enabling a local attacker to trigger a kernel memory disclosure and bypass KASLR via a crafted ACPI table. The issue is mit...

Bypassing VirtualBox Process Hardening on Windows

Posted by James Forshaw, Project Zero Processes on Windows are securable objects, which prevents one user logged into a Windows machine from compromising another user’s processes. This is a pretty important security feature, at least from the perspective of a non-administrator user. The security...

The vulnerability of the NVIDIA Graphics Drivers component for the Mac OS X operating system allows a hacker to trigger a service failure or execute arbitrary code in a privileged context.

The vulnerability of the NVIDIA Graphics Drivers component for the Mac OS X operating system arises from an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code in privileged context, or trigger a service...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-930)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000111: Fixed a race condition in net-packet code that could be exploited to cause out-of-bounds memory access bsc1052365. - CVE-2017-1000112: Fixed a race...