SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1528-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606482 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Int...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1543-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52119 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Inte...

CVE-2018-10597

CVE-2018-10597 affects Philips IntelliVue MP Series, MX monitors and Avalon FM monitors. Root cause: improper authentication allowing an unauthenticated attacker to read/write memory via an attacker-chosen device address within the same subnet (write-what-where). Affected versions include MP Seri...

IoT Botnets Found Using Default Credentials for C&C Server Databases

Not following cybersecurity best practices could not only cost online users but also cost cybercriminals. Yes, sometimes hackers don't take best security measures to keep their infrastructure safe. A variant of IoT botnet, called Owari, that relies on default or weak credentials to hack insecure...

Debian DLA-1392-1 : linux security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service. CVE-2018-1093 Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image could trigger an out-of-bounds read in the ext4validblockbitmap function. A local user able to mount arbitrary filesystems coul...

Debian DLA-1390-1 : procps security update

The Qualys Research Labs discovered multiple vulnerabilities in procps, a set of command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2018-1122 top read its configuration from the current working...

Hacking, tracking, stealing and sinking ships

At Infosecurity Europe this year, we demonstrated multiple methods to interrupt the shipping industry, several of which haven’t been demonstrated in public before, to our knowledge. Some of these issues were simply through poor security hygiene on board, but others were linked to the protocols us...

CVE-2016-10639

redis-srvr is a npm wrapper for redis-server. redis-srvr downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on the networ...

CVE-2016-10686

fis-sass-all is another libsass wrapper for node. fis-sass-all downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested resources with an attacker controlled copy if the attacker is on the...

CVE-2016-10688

CVE-2016-10688 affects the Haxe 3 toolkit (haxe3): it downloads resources over HTTP, making it vulnerable to a Man‑in‑the‑Middle (MitM) where an attacker on the network can intercept and replace the downloaded resource, potentially enabling remote code execution. The available documents consisten...

CVE-2016-10691

CVE-2016-10691 affects the windows-seleniumjar package, which downloads the Selenium Jar over HTTP. The underlying issue is insecure binary/resource retrieval that can be intercepted in a privileged network position, enabling an attacker to swap the downloaded binary and potentially achieve remot...

CVE-2018-11712

CVE-2018-11712 affects WebKitGTK/WebKitGTK+ libsoup backend. The WebKit source file SocketStreamHandleImplSoup.cpp failed to verify TLS certificates for WebSocket connections in WebKitGTK+ 2.20.0 and 2.20.1, enabling a potential man‑in‑the‑middle or spoofing scenario. The connected documents conf...

Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)

dalek-browser-ie-canary is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. This is because it downloads binary resources via HTTP, allowing MitM attacks. Also, it may potentially cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker ...

Fedora 27 : 1:xmlrpc (2018-6e6f1003d6)

Security fix for CVE-2016-5003, CVE-2016-5002 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2018-038)

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccpwritexmit function in...

Fedora 27 : poppler (2018-26fcc67bfd)

Security fix for CVE-2017-18267. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 703...

CVE-2016-10623

macaca-chromedriver-zxa is a Node.js wrapper for the selenium chromedriver. macaca-chromedriver-zxa downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker...

Remote code execution

atom-node-module-installer installs node modules for atom-shell applications. atom-node-module-installer binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled...

Remote code execution

libxl provides Node bindings for the libxl library for reading and writing excel XLS and XLSX spreadsheets. libxl downloads zipped resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested zip file with an...

CVE-2016-10624

selenium-chromedriver is a simple utility for downloading the Selenium Webdriver for Google Chrome selenium-chromedriver downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary wit...