Local Privilege Escalation in Huawei ME906s 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Driver - us

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-15815 Potential Impact: Local privilege escalation Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-8185 Summary Description: A local privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the Huawei ME906s 4G LTE Mobile broadband driver used...

News and Updates from the PCI Europe Community Meeting

In September, Hurricane Irma forced the PCI SSC to cancel the North America Community Meeting; and the uncertainty of Catalonian independence from Spain may have led some to stay home from the Europe Community Meeting held in Barcelona last week. Nevertheless, the Coalfire team was well-represent...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:2873-1)

This update for xen fixes several issues: These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:2864-1)

This update for xen fixes several issues: These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-693.5.2.0.1.el7.OL7 - ipc ipc/sem.c: bugfix for semctl,,GETZCNT Manfred Spraul orabug 22552377 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676...

Xen Hypervisor PCI MSI Interrupt Setup Multiple Guest-to-Host Privilege Escalation (XSA-237)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities related to the setup of PCI MSI interrupts, which may allow an attacker on the guest to cause a denial of service on the host, potentially disclose sensitive...

An Analysis of PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.4.1 and the Compliance Expectations

For some organizations, understanding, navigating, and complying with the Payment Card Industry PCI Data Security Standard DSS, especially after the release of the latest version v3.2 released in April 2016, has become confusing and/or challenging because of the inclusion of phased-in applicabili...

multiple MSI mapping issues on x86

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Multiple issues exist with the setup of PCI MSI interrupts: - unprivileged guests were permitted access to devices not owned by them, in particular allowing them to disable MSI or MSI-X on any device - HVM guests can trigger a codepath intended only for PV guests - some failure...

CVE-2017-10997

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, using a debugfs node, a write to a PCIe register can cause corruption of kernel memory...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3422-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

USN-3422-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3422-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Bluetooth stack of the Linux...

USN-3422-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Bluetooth stack of the Linux kernel when handling L2CAP configuration responses. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-1000251 It was discovered that the asynchronous I/O aio...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.87 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000251: The native Bluetooth stack in the Linux Kernel BlueZ was vulnerable to a stack overflow vulnerability in the processing of L2CAP configuration...

Lessons Learned from the Equifax Disaster

143 million U.S. consumers, Equifax.com users who may have been affected by the the worst data breach in history are receiving all sorts of advice including a free TrustedID product license from Equifax. But despite numerous public reports about the incident, there are still many important...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.85 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-14051: An integer overflow in the qla2x00sysfswriteoptromctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qlaattr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause...

Threat Intelligence for WAF

It’s all about security rules Stephen Hawking said, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”. One could say much the same of web application firewalls and WAF security rules. With web applications now one of the most attacked components of IT infrastructures, organizations have a critical...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-929)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000111: Fixed a race condition in net-packet code that could be exploited to cause out-of-bounds memory access bsc1052365. - CVE-2017-1000112: Fixed a race...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-890)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.79 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7542: The ip6find1stfragopt function in net/ipv6/outputcore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow and...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-891)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.79 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7542: The ip6find1stfragopt function in net/ipv6/outputcore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow and...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.79 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7542: The ip6find1stfragopt function in net/ipv6/outputcore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service integer overflow and...