What's Next for Edge Delivery

Access to media through the internet is a huge part of how so many in the world are entertained, informed, and even educated nowadays. And 2020 has shined an even greater light on that fact as many around the world have needed to adjust to life during a pandemic. At Akamai, we saw traffic deliver...

Debian DLA-2406-1 : jackson-databind security update

It was discovered that there was an external entity expansion vulnerability in jackson-databind, a Java library for processing JSON. For Debian 9 'Stretch', this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.6-1+deb9u8. We recommend that you upgrade your jackson-databind packages. For the detailed securi...

kernel: use-after-free in __ext4_expand_extra_isize and ext4_xattr_set_entry related to fs/ext4/inode.c and fs/ext4/super.c

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s ext4 file system functionality when the user mount ext4 partition, with the usage of an additional debug parameter is defining an extra inode size. If this parameter has a non zero value, this flaw allows a local user to crash the system when...

kernel: use-after-free in __ext4_expand_extra_isize and ext4_xattr_set_entry related to fs/ext4/inode.c and fs/ext4/super.c

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s ext4 file system functionality when the user mount ext4 partition, with the usage of an additional debug parameter is defining an extra inode size. If this parameter has a non zero value, this flaw allows a local user to crash the system when...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

subversion is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists through the moddontdothat module caused by exponential XML entity expansion...

CEOs Could Be Held Personally Liable for Cyberattacks that Kill

A full 75 percent of top brass at companies will be personally on the hook for cyber-physical security CSP incidents by 2024 – especially those that involve fatalities. That’s according to the Gartner research firm, which predicted this week that CEOs soon will no longer be able to hide behind...

CVE-2020-24590

The Management Console in WSO2 API Manager through 3.1.0 and API Microgateway 2.2.0 allows XML Entity Expansion attacks...

CVE-2020-24590

The Management Console in WSO2 API Manager through 3.1.0 and API Microgateway 2.2.0 allows XML Entity Expansion attacks...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Management Console in WSO2 API Manager through 3.1.0 and API Microgateway 2.2.0 allows XML Entity Expansion attacks...

CVE-2020-24590

The Management Console in WSO2 API Manager through 3.1.0 and API Microgateway 2.2.0 allows XML Entity Expansion attacks...

CVE-2020-24590

The CVE-2020-24590 entry affects the WSO2 API Manager Management Console (versions up to 3.1.0) and API Microgateway (2.2.0). It stems from XML Entity Expansion/XEE in the XML processing path, enabling attackers to cause denial of service or crash the system, with examples indicating unauthentica...

CVE-2020-24590

The Management Console in WSO2 API Manager through 3.1.0 and API Microgateway 2.2.0 allows XML Entity Expansion attacks. Recent assessments: krzysztof-przybylski at August 29, 2020 11:16pm UTC reported: Severity: Critical CVSS Score: 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H AFFECTED...

A use-after-free vulnerability introduced in glibc upstream version 2.14 was found in the way the tilde expansion was carried out. Directory paths containing an initial tilde followed by a valid username were affected by this issue. A local attacker could exploit this flaw by creating a specially crafted path that when processed by the glob function would potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. This was fixed in version 2.32.

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CactusPete APT Hones Toolset, Resurfaces with New Espionage Targets

The China-based APT known as CactusPete has returned with a new campaign aimed at military and financial targets in Eastern Europe, which is a new geography for the group’s victimology, according to researchers. The group also used a fresh variant of the Bisonal backdoor, which allows the attacke...

Brazil's Banking Trojans Go Global

Malware that is typically used in Brazil is expanding its geography, targeting users in North America, Europe and elsewhere in Latin America. Banking trojans, which steal online banking logins and other financial credentials from unsuspecting victims, are fairly common – but the more sophisticate...

Protecting your remote workforce from application-based attacks like consent phishing

The global pandemic has dramatically shifted how people work. As a result, organizations around the world have scaled up cloud services to support collaboration and productivity from home. We’re also seeing more apps leverage Microsoft’s identity platform to ensure seamless access and integrated...

GHSA-MM44-WC5P-WQHQ Denial of service due to reference expansion in versions earlier than 4.0

Impact The CBOR library supports optional tags that enable CBOR objects to contain references to objects within them. Versions earlier than 4.0 resolved those references automatically. While this by itself doesn't cause much of a security problem, a denial of service can happen if those reference...

Denial of service due to reference expansion in versions earlier than 4.0

Impact The CBOR library supports optional tags that enable CBOR objects to contain references to objects within them. Versions earlier than 4.0 resolved those references automatically. While this by itself doesn't cause much of a security problem, a denial of service can happen if those reference...

kernel: use-after-free in __ext4_expand_extra_isize and ext4_xattr_set_entry related to fs/ext4/inode.c and fs/ext4/super.c

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s ext4 file system functionality when the user mount ext4 partition, with the usage of an additional debug parameter is defining an extra inode size. If this parameter has a non zero value, this flaw allows a local user to crash the system when...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-4416-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4416-1 advisory. Florian Weimer discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cau...