USN-5939-1: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain protocols, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execut...

Experts Reveal Google Cloud Platform's Blind Spot for Data Exfiltration Attacks

Malicious actors can take advantage of "insufficient" forensic visibility into Google Cloud Platform GCP to exfiltrate sensitive data, a new research has found. "Unfortunately, GCP does not provide the level of visibility in its storage logs that is needed to allow any effective forensic...

USN-5920-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol ULP subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain protocols, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execut...

SUSE CVE-2019-10217

A flaw was found in ansible 2.8.0 before 2.8.4. Fields managing sensitive data should be set as such by nolog feature. Some of these fields in GCP modules are not set properly. serviceaccountcontents which is common class for all gcp modules is not setting nolog to True. Any sensitive data manage...

CVE-2020-16251

A flaw was found in Vault and Vault Enterprise “Vault”. In affected versions of Vault, with the GCP Auth Method configured and under certain circumstances, the values relied upon by Vault to validate Google Compute Engine GCE VMs may be manipulated and bypass authentication...

Kubernetes: Privilege Escalation in kOps using GCE/GCP Provider

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in kOps when using the GCE/GCP provider. An attacker with shell access to a pod could escalate their privileges to cluster admin by accessing the service account credentials and sensitive information stored in the state storage bucket. This...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5804-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Hunting for signs of persistence in the cloud: an IR guide following the CircleCI incident

Learn how to detect malicious persistence techniques in AWS, GCP & Azure after potential initial compromise, like with the CircleCI incident...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5793-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-5790-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the BPF verifier in the Linux kernel did not properly handle internal data structures. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2021-4159 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Android Binder IPC subsystem in the Lin...

SUSE-SU-2023:0009-1 Security update for saphanabootstrap-formula

This update for saphanabootstrap-formula fixes the following issues: - Version bump 0.13.1 revert changes to spec file to re-enable SLES RPM builds CVE-2022-45153: Fixed privilege escalation for arbitrary users in hana/hacluster.sls bsc1205990 - Version bump 0.13.0 pass sid to sudoers in a SLES12...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5755-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-5757-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-427...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5728-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-5728-3)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5728-3 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential...

Use After Free

linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-dell300x is vulnerable to free of use. The vulnerability exists in drivers/scsi/stex.c because it allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory because stexqueuecommandlck lacks a memset...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-5727-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5727-2 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could...

Rapid7 and HashiCorp Partner to Secure Terraform-based Cloud Infrastructure Deployments

Welcome to the latest installment in our cloud security “shift-left” blog series. In our last post, we covered the importance of integrating cloud infrastructure security assessments into DevOps tools and enabling Infrastructure as Code IaC developers. This time, we’re focusing on Rapid7’s recent...

USN-5729-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2022-20422 Hsin-Wei Hung discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel contained an...

USN-5728-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-427...