February 22, 2018—KB4075212 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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February 22, 2018—KB4077525 (OS Build 14393.2097)

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UPDATE: Kali Linux 2018.1 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Second post of the new year and it is about the latest Kali Linux 2018.1 release! The last Kali Linux release was made available in the month of November. As usual, this new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release - Kali Linux 2017....

Kali Linux 2018.1 Release - The Best Penetration Testing Distribution

Kali Linux 2018.1 the first release of 2018, this fine release contains all updated packages and bug fixes since our 2017.3 release last November. This release wasn’t without its challenges–from the Meltdown and Spectre excitement patches will be in the 4.15 kernel to a couple of other nasty bugs...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0169 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

January 31, 2018—KB4058258 (OS Build 16299.214)

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Failed to open VM attachment

Challenge Veeam ONE generates "Failed to open VM attachment" alarm. Cause Veeam ONE triggers " Failed to open VM attachment" alarm when the following Windows events are registered on the Hyper-V host: 12290 Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker 12290 Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-SynthStor 12290...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Driver Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA driver response to CPU speculative side channel vulnerabilities - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 Bulletin Summary NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero’s January 3, 2018 publication of novel information disclosure attacks tha...

XenDesktop Setup Wizard completes without error, but there's no VM has been created in Hyper-V SCVMM

XenDesktop Setup Wizard completes without error, but no VM has been created in Hyper-V SCVMM. And there's noparticular error messages from CDF trace either...

KB4038781: Windows 10 September 2017 Cumulative Update

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4038781. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Windows PDF Library improperly handles objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in a way that enables...

KB4034668: Windows 10 August 2017 Cumulative Update

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4034668. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Search handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take control of the...

KB3217841: Security Update for the Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability (April 2017)

The remote Windows host is missing a security update KB3217841. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability in Hyper-V due to improper validation of input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Bad Hyper-V Username Logon Attempt

Challenge Veeam ONE raises the following event-based alarm:Bad Hyper-V username logon attempt. Cause The Bad Host Username Logon alert suggests that someone is attempting to access the host with an invalid username or password. Solution Veeam ONE raises the Bad Hyper-V username logon attempt alar...

September 12, 2017—KB4038793 (Security-only update)

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Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20171006)

Security Fixes : - Kernel memory corruption due to a buffer overflow was found in brcmfcfg80211mgmttx function in Linux kernels from v3.9-rc1 to v4.13-rc1. The vulnerability can be triggered by sending a crafted NL80211CMDFRAME packet via netlink. This flaw is unlikely to be triggered remotely as...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2017:2863 centos6

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882783";...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 vulnerability from the...

The vulnerability of microprogramming software that uses UEFI (BIOS) stems from improper handling of code generation, allowing attackers to bypass System Protection mechanisms such as Device Guard and Hyper-V.

The vulnerability of microprogramming software that uses UEFI BIOS in Lenovo products is related to improper code generation. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, whether operating remotely with administrator privileges or locally, to execute specially crafted code that bypasse...

CVE-2017-8707

The Windows Hyper-V component on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an information disclosure vulnerability when it fails to properly validate input from an authenticated...

CVE-2017-8713

The Windows Hyper-V component on Microsoft Windows Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an information disclosure vulnerability when it fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating...