CVE-2019-10214

The containers/image library used by the container tools Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8 and CRI-O in OpenShift Container Platform, does not enforce TLS connections to the container registry authorization service. An attacker could use this vulnerability to launc...

Authorization

The containers/image library used by the container tools Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8 and CRI-O in OpenShift Container Platform, does not enforce TLS connections to the container registry authorization service. An attacker could use this vulnerability to launc...

Stalkerware’s legal enforcement problem

Content warning: This piece contains brief descriptions of domestic violence and assault against women and children. In the past five years, only two stalkerware developers, both of whom designed, marketed, and sold tools favored by domestic abusers to pry into victims’ private lives, have faced...

Consumer Data Privacy Rights: Emerging Tech Blurs Lines

LAS VEGAS – From drones to facial recognition, new technology applications are introducing unique consumer privacy issues for civil society — and U.S. lawmakers and legal teams are struggling to keep up. Privacy is a fundamental human right for consumers, but new ways in which data is collected a...

CVE-2019-1388

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Certificate Dialog when it does not properly enforce user privileges, aka 'Windows Certificate Dialog Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

SUSE-SU-2019:2950-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Excepti...

The Benefits of a Single Provider DNS Platform

I've written in previous blogs about the value of using DNS as a security control point and how using a DNS based security solution like Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector can help accelerate your transition to a Zero Trust security approach. In this blog, I'm going to cover how in addition to...

containers/image: not enforcing TLS when sending username+password credentials to token servers leading to credential disclosure

The containers/image library used by the container tools Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8 and CRI-O in OpenShift Container Platform, does not enforce TLS connections to the container registry authorization service. An attacker could use this vulnerability to launc...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 cri-o security update

An update for cri-o is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Seven Security Strategies, Summarized

This is the sort of story that starts as a comment on Twitter, then becomes a blog post when I realize I can't fit all the ideas into one or two Tweets. You know how much I hate Tweet threads, and how I encourage everyone to capture deep thoughts in blog posts! In the interest of capturing the...

chromium-browser: Cross-origin data leak

Insufficient policy enforcement in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 78.0.3904.70 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page...

RHEL 8 : container-tools:1.0 (RHSA-2019:3494)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3494 advisory. The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc. Security Fixes: QEMU: slir...

container-tools:1.0 security and bug fix update

An update is available for fuse-overlayfs, oci-umount, oci-systemd-hook. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The container-tools module contains tool...

Important: container-tools:1.0 security and bug fix update

The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc. Security Fixes: QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow during packet reassembly CVE-2019-14378 containers/image: not enforcing TLS when sending username+password credentials to token serve...

Trend Micro Discloses Insider Threat Impacting Some of its Consumer Customers

We recently became aware of a security incident that resulted in the unauthorized disclosure of some personal data of an isolated number of customers of our consumer product. We immediately started investigating the situation and found that this was the result of a malicious insider threat. The...

Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint Software Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20191016-tele-ce-file-ovrwrt)

According to its self-reported version, the Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint CE Cisco TelePresence Software is affected by a vulnerability due to insufficient permission enforcement. An authenticated remote attacker can exploit this, via a support user using malicious input, to overwrite...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-8771

This issue was addressed with improved iframe sandbox enforcement. This issue is fixed in Safari 13.0.1, iOS 13. Maliciously crafted web content may violate iframe sandboxing policy...

Leading Web Domain Name Registrars Disclose Data Breach

Another day, another massive data breach—this time affecting a leading web technology company, as well as both of its subsidiaries, from where millions of customers around the world have purchased domain names for their websites. The world's top domain registrars Web.com, Network Solutions, and...

Breaches at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com

Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed. A notice to customers at notice.web.com. "On October 16, 2019, Web.com determin...

Stalkerware developer dealt new blow by FTC

Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission FTC interpreted its broad consumer protection mandate to file a first-of-its-kind enforcement action against the developer of three mobile stalkerware applications. The developer was banned from further selling the apps unless significant changes were ma...