Sony Smart TV Bug Allows Remote Access, Root Privileges

As the number of smart TVs grows, so does the number of vulnerabilities inside of them. On Thursday, security researchers revealed that eight Sony Bravia smart TV models are vulnerable to three separate bugs, one rated critical. The flaws – a stack buffer overflow, a directory traversal and a...

Authentication flaw

A vulnerability in the MACsec Key Agreement MKA using Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security EAP-TLS functionality of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to bypass authentication and pass traffic through a Layer 3 interface of an affected...

ThreatList: 83% of Routers Contain Vulnerable Code

A staggering 83 percent of home and office routers have vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. Of those vulnerable, over a quarter harbor high-risk and critical vulnerabilities, according to a report released this week by American Consumer Institute on router safety PDF. The study...

Carestream Vue RIS

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 3.7 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Carestream Equipment: Carestream Vue RIS Vulnerability: Information Exposure Through an Error Message 2. RISK EVALUATION An attacker with access to the network of the affected system can passively read traffic. 3. TECHNICAL...

Debian DLA-1530-1 : imagemagick security update

Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in ImageMagick, an image manipulation program, that allow remote attackers to cause denial of service application crash, excessive memory allocation, or other unspecified effects or out of bounds memory access via DCM, PWP, CALS, PICT, BMP, DIB, or...

CVE-2018-12087

OPC Foundation UA Client Applications are affected by CVE-2018-12087 due to failure to validate certificates in communications without security. This allows an attacker who controls a segment of the network infrastructure to decrypt passwords, indicating a confidentiality impact. The vulnerabilit...

Partner Perspectives: IR Challenges Solved by IncMan SOAR + Cb Response

John Moran is the Senior Product Manager for DFLabs. Cb Response is one of the most effective endpoint solutions when it comes to detecting, investigating and responding to advanced threats. I do not say this as a marketing person I am not, but as a former incident response consultant who utilize...

H2 Database 1.4.196 - Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: H2 Database 1.4.196 - Remote Code Execution Google Dork: N/A Date: 2018-09-24 Exploit Author: h4ckNinja Vendor Homepage: https://www.h2database.com/ Software Link: http://www.h2database.com/h2-2018-03-18.zip Version: 1.4.196 and 1.4.197 Tested on: macOS/Linux CVE: N/A This takes...

Fedora 27 : spamassassin (2018-6ed251c42b)

Fixed some small bugs in the previous package: Initial rules now have the correct version, sought channel config is dropped since it doesn't exist anymore and build / runtime deps adjusted. ---- Update to 3.4.2. Fixes CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2018-11780 and CVE-2018-11781 along with many other bugfixe...

Fedora 27 : glusterfs (2018-9a4d7ec61e)

3.12.14 GA Security Fix for CVE-2018-10904 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10907 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10911 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10913 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10914 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10923 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10926 Security Fix for CVE-2018-10927 Security Fix for CVE-2018-1092...

IC3 Issues Alert on RDP Exploitation

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3, in collaboration with DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has released an alert on cyber threat actors maliciously using legitimate remote administration tools, such as Remote Desktop Protocol RDP. Threat actors identify and exploit vulnerable RDP...

Debian DLA-1522-1 : strongswan security update

Sze Yiu Chau and his team from Purdue University and The University of Iowa found several security issues in the gmp plugin for strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite. CVE-2018-16151 The OID parser in the ASN.1 code in gmp allows any number of random bytes after a valid OID. CVE-2018-16152 The...

Oracle Linux 7 : nss (ELSA-2018-2768)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-2768 advisory. - Backport upstream fix for CVE-2018-12384 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that...

Debian DLA-1519-1 : python2.7 security update

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the CPython interpreter which can cause denial of service, information gain, and arbitrary code execution. CVE-2017-1000158 CPython aka Python is vulnerable to an integer overflow in the PyStringDecodeEscape function in stringobject.c, resulting in heap-base...

nss: ServerHello.random is all zeros when handling a v2-compatible ClientHello

A flaw was found in the way NSS responded to an SSLv2-compatible ClientHello with a ServerHello that had an all-zero random. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw in a passive replay attack...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: nss security update

An update for nss is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 CV...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : gnutls (SUSE-SU-2018:2825-1)

This update for gnutls fixes the following issues : This update for gnutls fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : Improved mitigations against Lucky 13 class of attacks 'Just in Time' PRIME + PROBE cache-based side channel attack can lead to plaintext recovery CVE-2018-10846,...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 126206-13

SunOS 5.10: zebra ripd quagga patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Sep/24/18 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid117683; scriptversion"1.4";...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2018:2778-1)

This update for ImageMagick fixes the following issues : The following security vulnerabilities were fixed : CVE-2018-16329: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in the GetMagickProperty function leading to DoS bsc1106858 CVE-2018-16323: ReadXBMImage left data uninitialized when processing an XBM fil...

Container theft, the legal system and poor maritime security

One of the most interesting legal cases I’ve read recently involves a theft of two containers of cobalt metal briquettes from a terminal at the port of Antwerp. Original judgment: Appeal: What drew me to this case was the amount of useful data that had entered the public domain concerning a crime...