CVE-2019-3696 pcp: Local privilege escalation from user pcp to root through migrate_tempdirs

A Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory vulnerability in the packaging of pcp of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15, SUSE Linux Enterprise...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime affect Rational Performance Tester

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 1.8 and IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 1.8 used by Rational Performance Tester. Rational Performance Tester has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4473 DESCRIPTION:...

Performance Testing: Justifying Cost and Performance Improvements (Part 2)

As mentioned in the first blog in this series, Melanie, a performance engineer at VMware Carbon Black, built both baseline and investigative tests for the engineers that develop and maintain the company’s reputation services. Here’s a deeper look at these tests and how they helped the company...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM HTTP Server used by WebSphere Application Server shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager for Wireline

Summary Apache HTTP Server vulnerability has been identified in WebSphere Application Server. WebSphere Application Server is shipped with Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager. Information about a security vulnerability affecting WebSphere Application Server has been published in a security bulleti...

openSUSE Security Update : cacti / cacti-spine (openSUSE-2020-272)

This update for cacti, cacti-spine fixes the following issues : cacti-spine was updated to version 1.2.9. Security issues fixed : - CVE-2009-4112: Fixed a privilege escalation bsc1122535. - CVE-2018-20723: Fixed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability bsc1122245. - CVE-2018-20724: Fixed a...

Description of Office 2010 Service Pack 2

Description of Office 2010 Service Pack 2 Introduction Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 SP2 provides the latest updates for Office 2010. This service pack includes two kinds of fixes: Previously unreleased fixes that are included in this service pack. In addition to general product fixes, the...

Product release: Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform 3.5 Update 1 (3.5.1-43)

This update provides a new feature as well as fixes and improvements. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-30003 Unable to release node from cluster: 'Unable to send message to any node in ABGW cluster'. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-30135 No read/write data on dashboards if multipath is configured. Vulnerability i...

February 27, 2020—KB4535996 (OS Builds 18362.693 and 18363.693)

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The Game Changing Role of Performance Testing (Part 1)

In two previous blogs, VMware Carbon Black software engineers discussed how important it was to maintain a balance of latency, scale, and cost as they built out and enhanced the company’s reputation services. They also provided some insights into the challenges they encountered with various...

Secure Mail on iOS opens for about 5 seconds then crashes

When Secure Mail opens all looks ok, after about 5 seconds the app crashes. Just for one user regardless of iOS device...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities exist in IBM Cognos TM1

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 7 used by IBM Cognos TM1. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in April 2017 and July 2017. A XSS vulnerability in Performance Management Hub was also addressed. Vulnerability Details...

Information Disclosure

github.com/hashicorp/vault is vulnerable to information disclosure. After mount filter creation on an upstream Performance secondary cluster, the Disaster Recovery secondary clusters do not remove the replicated secrets and remain replicated on it...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: http-parser-2.9.3-1.fc30

This is a parser for HTTP messages written in C. It parses both requests and responses. The parser is designed to be used in performance HTTP applicatio ns. It does not make any syscalls nor allocations, it does not buffer data, it can be interrupted at anytime. Depending on your architecture, it...

Fedora: Security Advisory for http-parser (FEDORA-2020-830d8a1a92)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: firefox-73.0.1-1.fc31

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

SUDO_KILLER - A Tool To Identify And Exploit Sudo Rules' Misconfigurations And Vulnerabilities Within Sudo

Linux Privilege Escalation through SUDO abuse. If you like the tool and for my personal motivation so as to develop other tools please a +1 star The tool can be used by pentesters, system admins, CTF players, students, System Auditors and trolls :. INTRO WARNING: SUDOKILLER is part of the KILLER...

Product update: Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform 3.0 Update 5 Hotfix 2 (3.0.5-69)

This update enables upgrade to Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform 3.5 and provides important system fixes. Vulnerability id: TTASK-31595, VSTOR-30463, VSTOR-30887 Several stability and performance improvements...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: cacti-spine-1.2.9-1.fc31

Spine is a supplemental poller for Cacti that makes use of pthreads to achi eve excellent performance...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: cacti-spine-1.2.9-1.fc30

Spine is a supplemental poller for Cacti that makes use of pthreads to achi eve excellent performance...

Fedora: Security Advisory for cacti-spine (FEDORA-2020-90f1c8229e)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...