Today’s File Security is So ‘80s, Part 2: Detect Suspicious File Access with Dynamic Peer Groups

In a previous post, we shared three primary reasons why the traditional, static approach to file security no longer works for today’s modern enterprises. Working groups are formed organically and are cross-functional by nature, making a black and white approach to file access control outdated—it...

CVE-2017-7493: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Quick Emulator Qemu built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System9pfs support, is vulnerable to an improper access control issue. It could occur while accessing virtfs metadata files in mapped-file security mode. A guest user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges...

PT-2017-17769

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qemu affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to an improper access control problem in Qemu when built with VirtFS and 9pfs support. It occurs when accessing virtfs metadata files in mapped-file security mode, potential...

CVE-2017-7613

elflint.c in elfutils 0.168 does not validate the number of sections and the number of segments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted ELF file...

CVE-2016-7967

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. Since the generated html is executed in the local file security context by default access to remote and local URLs was enabled...

CVE-2016-7967

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. Since the generated html is executed in the local file security context by default access to remote and local URLs was enabled...

CVE-2016-7967: Improper Control of Generation of Code

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. Since the generated html is executed in the local file security context by default access to remote and local URLs was enabled...

file security, bug fix, and enhancement update

5.04-30 - fix CVE-2014-3538 unrestricted regular expression matching 5.04-29 - fix 1284826 - try to read ELF header to detect corrupted one 5.04-28 - fix 1263987 - fix bugs found by coverity in the patch 5.04-27 - fix CVE-2014-3587 incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 - fix CVE-2014-3710 out-of-bound...

Debian DLA-460-1 : file security update

A malformed magic file could trigger a segmentation fault and thus crash applications due to a buffer over-write in the filecheckmem function. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this problem has been fixed in version 5.11-2+deb7u9. We recommend that you upgrade your file packages. NOTE: Tenable Network...

Learn Turkish - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Exported ContentProvider vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Learn Turkish published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

IBM Spectrum Protect File Read Vulnerability

IBM Spectrum Protect formerly known as Tivoli Storage Manager is a suite of data protection platforms from U.S.-based IBM that provides organizations with a single point of control and management, and support for backup and recovery of virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes. A...

APPLE-SA-2015-09-21-1 watchOS 2

APPLE-SA-2015-09-21-1 watchOS 2 watchOS 2 is now available and addresses the following: Apple Pay Available for: Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch, and Apple Watch Edition Impact: Some cards may allow a terminal to retrieve limited recent transaction information when making a payment Description: Th...

ESA-2015-131: EMC Documentum Content Server Multiple Vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2015-131: EMC Documentum Content Server Multiple Vulnerabilities EMC Identifier: ESA-2015-131 CVE Identifier: CVE-2015-4531, CVE-2015-4532, CVE-2015-4533, CVE-2015-4534, CVE-2015-4535, CVE-2015-4536 Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: See below f...

JVN#16409640: MilkyStep fails to restrict access permissions

MilkyStep provided by Igreks Inc. is a CGI for e-mail newsletter distribution management. MilkyStep fails to restrict access permissions CWE-264. Impact A remote attacker may obtain files managed by the product. Solution Update the Software Update to the latest version according to the informatio...

CVE-2015-3407

Module::Signature before 0.74 allows remote attackers to bypass signature verification for files via a signature file that does not list the files...

CVE-2015-2170

The upx decoder in ClamAV before 0.98.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted file...

Debian DLA-50-1 : file security update

CVE-2014-3538 file does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption. CVE-2014-3587 Integer overflow in the cdfreadpropertyinfo function in cdf.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

Debian DLA-27-1 : file security update

Fix various denial of service attacks : CVE-2014-3487 The cdfreadpropertyinfo function does not properly validate a stream offset, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted CDF file. CVE-2014-3480 The cdfcountchain function in cdf.c in does not...

Debian DLA-131-1 : file security update

Multiple security issues have been found in file, a tool/library to determine a file type. Processing a malformed file could result in denial of service. Most of the changes are related to parsing ELF files. As part of the fixes, several limits on aspects of the detection were added or tightened,...

Debian DLA-86-1 : file security update

Francisco Alonso of Red Hat Product Security found an issue in the file utility: when checking ELF files, note headers are incorrectly checked, thus potentially allowing attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and application crash by supplying a specially crafted ELF file. For...