Sudo Bug Opens Root Access on Linux Systems

A vulnerability in Sudo, a core command utility for Linux, could allow a user to execute commands as a root user even if that root access has been specifically disallowed. Sudo is a utility that allows a system administrator to give certain users or groups of users the ability to run commands in...

New Critical Exim Flaw Exposes Email Servers to Remote Attacks — Patch Released

A critical security vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in the popular open-source Exim email server software, which could allow a remote attacker to simply crash or potentially execute malicious code on targeted servers. Exim maintainers today released an urgent security update—Exim...

Boosting Your Linux & Docker Security with CB LiveOps

Today we’re excited to announce Linux support for CB LiveOps, Carbon Black’s real-time endpoint query & remediation solution that helps security teams audit and change the state of their systems. This release expands the product’s footprint to cover all major operating systems, including Amazon...

USN-4017-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jonathan Looney discovered that the TCP retransmission queue implementation in the Linux kernel could be fragmented when handling certain TCP Selective Acknowledgment SACK sequences. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2019-11478 Jonathan Looney discovered that an...

Snapd Flaw Lets Attackers Gain Root Access On Linux Systems

Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions suffer from a severe privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker or a malicious program to obtain root privileges and total control over the targeted system. Dubbed "DirtySock" and identified as CVE-2019-7304, the vulnerability wa...

Commix v2.7 - Automated All-in-One OS Command Injection And Exploitation Tool

Commix short for command injection exploiter is an automated tool written by Anastasios Stasinopoulos @ancst that can be used from web developers, penetration testers or even security researchers in order to test web-based applications with the view to find bugs, errors or vulnerabilities related...

Arbitrary Code Execution

kernel is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution attacks. The vulnerability exists as Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 committed on April 14, 2015. This kernel vulnerability was fixed in...

systemd-journald Memory Corruption / Information Leak Vulnerability

This is a thorough analysis of how Qualys approached exploiting three vulnerabilities in systemd-journald. Although they have not released formal exploits yet, they detail in here is useful in understanding the flaws. Qualys Security Advisory System Down: A systemd-journald exploit...

New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions

Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating systems, that could allow unprivileged local attackers or malicious programs to gain root access on the targeted systems. The vulnerabilities, assigned as...

New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions

Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating systems, that could allow unprivileged local attackers or malicious programs to gain root access on the targeted systems. The vulnerabilities, assigned as...

Veeam Agent for Linux - veeamsnap and blksnap Extended Linux Distribution Support

This article provides supplementary information regarding the compatibility of the veeamsnap and blksnap kernel modules with various Linux distributions and kernel versions. It specifically addresses distributions and versions that are not explicitly listed in the System Requirements for Veeam...

New Privilege Escalation Flaw Affects Most Linux Distributions

An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X server is a popular open-source implementation of the X11 system display server that offers ...

New Privilege Escalation Flaw Affects Most Linux Distributions

An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X server is a popular open-source implementation of the X11 system display server that offers ...

Network-Attacker - WiFi Stress Testing Beacon Flooding & Deauthentication Attack

network-attacker V0.1 is a Wifi Stress Testing Bash Script Program Based on Mdk3 Beacon Flooding & Deauthentication Attack Created To Help Beginners And even Professionals For a eacon Flooding Or Deauthentication Attack On Networks Installation sudo apt-get install git sudo git clone...

Critical Flaws in Ghostscript Could Leave Many Systems at Risk of Hacking

Google Project Zero's security researcher has discovered a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in Ghostscript—an open source interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and PDF page description languages. Written entirely in C, Ghostscript is a package of software that runs on differen...

Autocrack - Hashcat Wrapper To Help Automate The Cracking Process

This python script is a Hashcat https://hashcat.net wrapper to help automate the cracking process. The script includes multiple functions to select a set of wordlists and rules, as well as the ability to run a bruteforce attack, with custom masks, before the wordlist/rule attacks. Autocrack uses...

OpenVAS Knowledge Base become smaller

At 23 January Jan Oliver Wagner, leader of OpenVAS project and Greenbone CEO, sent an email with a subject "Attic Cleanup". In this message, he mentioned, that some NASL plugins will be excluded from the public NVT / Greenbone Community Feed GCF soon. On the one hand it seems logical. These old...

Update Samba Servers Immediately to Patch Password Reset and DoS Vulnerabilities

Samba maintainers have just released new versions of their networking software to patch two critical vulnerabilities that could allow unprivileged remote attackers to launch DoS attacks against servers and change any other users' passwords, including admin's. Samba is open-source software...

glibc - getcwd() Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

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glibc getcwd() Local Privilege Escalation

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