Warning! Unprivileged Linux Users With UID > INT_MAX Can Execute Any Command

Hold tight, this may blow your mind… A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than 2147483647 can execute any systemctl command unauthorizedly—thanks to a newly discovered vulnerability. The reported vulnerability actually resides in PolicyKit...

RHEL 7 : Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHSA-2018:0475)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0475 advisory. - kubernetes: Volume security can be sidestepped with innocent emptyDir and subpath CVE-2017-1002101 - kubernetes: Malicious containers can...

Discovering Design Principles

Carbon Black recently published a report on the challenges of securing Linux-based operating systems and how Carbon Black is redesigning the approach. For more information about how the CB Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's consolidated endpoint security platform, helps enterprises cut cos...

Building Better Evaluation Criteria for Linux Security

Carbon Black recently published a report on the challenges of securing Linux-based operating systems and how Carbon Black is redesigning the approach. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's consolidated endpoint security platform, helps enterprises cut cos...

Flaws in Evaluating Security Tools for Linux

Carbon Black recently published a report on the challenges of securing Linux-based operating systems and how Carbon Black is redesigning the approach. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's consolidated endpoint security platform, helps enterprises cut cos...

Re-designing Linux Security: Do No Harm – Introduction

Carbon Black recently published a report on the challenges of securing Linux-based operating systems and how Carbon Black is redesigning the approach. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's consolidated endpoint security platform, helps enterprises cut cos...

Virtuozzo Linux Errata and Security Advisory 2018:3406 Critical

Upstream security update. Follow RHSA-2018:3406 for details...

GLSA-201810-10 : systemd: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201810-10 systemd: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in systemd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : An attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code, caus...

Linux/x86 - execve(/bin/sh) + MMX/ROT13/XOR Shellcode (Encoder/Decoder) (104 bytes)

Title: Linux/x86 - execve/bin/sh + MMX/ROT13/XOR Shellcode Encoder/Decoder 104 bytes Author: Kartik Durg Shellcode Length: 104 BYTES Student-ID: SLAE-1233 Write-up Link: https://iamroot.blog/2018/10/02/0x4-rot13xorencodermmxdecodershellcode-linux-x86/ Tested on: Ubuntu 16.0.4.1 i686...

USN-3784-1: AppArmor update

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the private-files abstraction to disallow writing to thumbnailer configuration files. Additionally adjust the private-files, private-files-strict and user-files abstractions to disallow writes on parent directories of sensitive files...

Windows Subsystem for Linux Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Windows Subsystem for Linux improperly handles case sensitivity. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could replace or delete arbitrary files as a low privilege user. A attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a...

Default configuration

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel present since v4.0-rc1 and through v4.13-rc4. A crafted network packet sent remotely by an attacker may force the kernel to enter an infinite loop in the cipsov4optptr function in net/ipv4/cipsoipv4.c leading to a denial-of-service. A certain non-default...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10938

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel present since v4.0-rc1 and through v4.13-rc4. A crafted network packet sent remotely by an attacker may force the kernel to enter an infinite loop in the cipsov4optptr function in net/ipv4/cipsoipv4.c leading to a denial-of-service. A certain non-default...

Important kernel security update: CVE-2018-3620 and other issues; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab133.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new kernel 2.6.32-042stab133.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 kernel 2.6.32-754.3.5.el6. The new kernel inherits a number of security fixes from the new RHEL kernel and introduces intern...

SUSE-SU-2018:2066-1 Security update for util-linux

This update for util-linux fixes the following security issue: - CVE-2018-7738: Fix local vulnerability using embedded shell commands in a mountpoint name bsc1084300...

Amazon Linux 2 : xmlrpc (ALAS-2018-1041)

A flaw was discovered in the Apache XML-RPC ws-xmlrpc library that deserializes untrusted data when enabledForExtensions setting is enabled. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized Java object in a ex:serializable element.CVE-2016-5003 C...

Linux/x86 - Bind (4444/TCP) Shell Shellcode (105 bytes)

/ ; Filename: tcpbindshellcodelight.nasm ; Author: Paolo Perego ; Website: https://codiceinsicuro.it ; Twitter: @thesp0nge ; SLAE-ID: 1217 ; Purpose: binds on TCP port 4444 and spawn a shell on incoming connections. global start section .text start: ; Creating the socket. ; ; int socketint domain...

Kaspersky KSN for Linux Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Kaspersky KSN for Linux provides cloud-assisted, multi-layered security for servers and workstations running the Linux operating system. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Kaspersky KSN for Linux. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code...

Google Chrome Security Updates (stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29-2018-05) - Linux

Google Chrome is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:google:chrome"; ifdescription...

[ASA-201805-17] libcurl-compat: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201805-17 ========================================== Severity: Critical Date : 2018-05-18 CVE-ID : CVE-2018-1000300 CVE-2018-1000301 Package : libcurl-compat Type : multiple issues Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-698 Summary ======= The...