R7-2017-13 | CVE-2017-5243: Nexpose Hardware Appliance SSH Enabled Obsolete Algorithms

Summary Nexpose physical appliances shipped with an SSH configuration that allowed obsolete algorithms to be used for key exchange and other functions. Because these algorithms are enabled, attacks involving authentication to the hardware appliances are more likely to succeed. We strongly encoura...

CVE-2017-3740

In Lenovo Active Protection System before 1.82.0.14, an attacker with local privileges could send commands to the system's embedded controller, which could cause a denial of service attack on the system or the ability to alter hardware functionality...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Lenovo Active Protection System before 1.82.0.14, an attacker with local privileges could send commands to the system's embedded controller, which could cause a denial of service attack on the system or the ability to alter hardware functionality...

CVE-2017-3740

In Lenovo Active Protection System before 1.82.0.14, an attacker with local privileges could send commands to the system's embedded controller, which could cause a denial of service attack on the system or the ability to alter hardware functionality...

CVE-2017-3740

In Lenovo Active Protection System before 1.82.0.14, an attacker with local privileges could send commands to the system's embedded controller, which could cause a denial of service attack on the system or the ability to alter hardware functionality...

PT-2017-16074

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Lenovo Active Protection System versions prior to 1.82.0.14 Description The issue allows an attacker with local privileges to send commands to the system's embedded controller. This could result in a denial of service attack on the system or t...

Distributed, Search Optimized Full Packet Capture System: PCAPDB

Distributed, Search Optimized Full Packet Capture System PcapDB is a distributed, search-optimized open source packet capture system. It was designed to replace expensive, commercial appliances with off-the-shelf hardware and a free, easy to manage software system. Captured packets are reorganize...

Metasploit Wrapup

It has only been one week since the last wrapup, so it's not like much could have happened, right? Wrong! Misery Loves Company After last week's excitement with Metasploit's version of ETERNALBLUE AKA the Wannacry vulnerability, this week SAMBA had its own "Hold My Beer" moment with the disclosur...

Direct Memory Access Attack: PCILeech

Direct Memory Access Attack The PCILeech use the USB3380 chip in order to read from and write to the memory of a target system. This is achieved by using DMA over PCI Express. No drivers are needed on the target system. The USB3380 is only able to read 4GB of memory natively, but is able to read...

USN-3291-3: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3291-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the generic SCSI sg subsystem in the Linux kernel...

USN-3292-2 linux-hwe vulnerability

USN-3292-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jason Donenfeld discovered a heap overflow in the MACsec module in the Linux kernel. An attack...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:1301-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable new features : - Toleration of newer crypto hardware for z Systems - USB 2.0 Link power management for Haswell-ULT The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7308: The packetsetring...

Design/Logic Flaw

fs/ext4/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.2, when ext4 data=ordered mode is used, mishandles a needs-flushing-before-commit list, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from other users' files in opportunistic circumstances by waiting for a hardware reset, creating a new...

CVE-2017-7495

fs/ext4/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.2, when ext4 data=ordered mode is used, mishandles a needs-flushing-before-commit list, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from other users' files in opportunistic circumstances by waiting for a hardware reset, creating a new...

SUSE-SU-2017:1301-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable new features: - Toleration of newer crypto hardware for z Systems - USB 2.0 Link power management for Haswell-ULT The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7308: The packetsetring functi...

CVE-2017-7495: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

fs/ext4/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.2, when ext4 data=ordered mode is used, mishandles a needs-flushing-before-commit list, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from other users' files in opportunistic circumstances by waiting for a hardware reset, creating a new...

CVE-2017-7495

fs/ext4/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.2, when ext4 data=ordered mode is used, mishandles a needs-flushing-before-commit list, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from other users' files in opportunistic circumstances by waiting for a hardware reset, creating a new...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: gstreamer1-vaapi-1.12.0-1.fc26

A collection of GStreamer plugins to let you make use of VA API video acceleration from GStreamer applications. Includes elements for video decoding, display, encoding and post-processing using VA API subject to hardware limitations...

Lenovo Active Protection System Privilege Escalation - Lenovo Support US

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Native Auditing Tools – Performance, Cost, and Compliance Issues

As we covered in a previous post, data-centric security measures need to be implemented to meet compliance requirements and protect against complex, ever-evolving attacks. There are two primary approaches to implementing these measures: Native auditing, which uses a database server's built-in too...