IBM Platform LSF and IBM Spectrum LSF Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

IBM Platform LSF and IBM Spectrum LSF are both a set of workload management platforms for distributed HPC environments from IBM USA. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in IBM Platform LSF and IBM Spectrum LSF. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges an...

The vulnerability in the kernel/events/core.c component of the Android operating system allows a hacker to increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the kernel/events/core.c component of the Android operating system’s kernel is related to deficiencies in access control for certain functions. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to enhance their privileges by using the functions perfpmuregister and...

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 General Availability Update Rollup

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 General Availability Update Rollup Important KB 2894029 redirect you to this article KB 2883200. When you install update package KB 2883200 from Windows Update, KB 2894029 and KB 2894179 are included in the installation of update package KB 2883200. Importan...

Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 update rollup: November 2013

Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 update rollup: November 2013 Important When you install this update KB2887595 from Windows Update, KB2898514, KB2901101, KB2906956, and KB2908174 are included in the installation. Summary This article describes the update rollup for Windows ...

Native Auditing Tools – Performance, Cost, and Compliance Issues

As we covered in a previous post, data-centric security measures need to be implemented to meet compliance requirements and protect against complex, ever-evolving attacks. There are two primary approaches to implementing these measures: Native auditing, which uses a database server's built-in too...

pydantic

Pydantic Validation !CIhttps://img.shields.io/github/acti...

HPE LoadRunner and Performance Center libxdrutil.dll mxdr_string Heap Buffer Overflow (CVE-2017-5789)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in HP LoadRunner and Performance Center. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the length of XDR encoded string. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to the vulnerable...

Combining fonts

&&&& I love the font Just Another Hand, I use it a lot in diagrams during my talks: Here it is! Yay! The thing is, I don't like the positioning of the hyphen & equals glyphs… Cache-Control: max-age=3600 They look awkwardly positioned – they sit too high. Thankfully CSS lets you merge fonts...

The State of Mobile App Performance

In our previous blog, we saw how a new generation of users are increasing the expectations of a mobile app like never before and identified the three key success criteria for mobile apps: 1 increase customer conversions, 2 drive installs and 3 increase customer loyalty. For this blog we profiled...

Weblate: Bypassing captcha in registration on Hosted site

Hello again, I believe the captcha on the user registration form is very simple and can be easily bypassed to automatically register any number of accounts. A program can read the math captcha, solve it and submit the form with the answer and the other required parameters & headers. Note: I read...

Debian DLA-916-1 : mysql-5.5 security update (Riddle)

Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.55, which includes additional changes, such as performance improvements, bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see th...

Debian DSA-3834-1 : mysql-5.5 - security update (Riddle)

Several issues have been discovered in the MySQL database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MySQL to the new upstream version 5.5.55, which includes additional changes, such as performance improvements, bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: firefox-53.0-2.fc24

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

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: collectd-5.6.2-1.fc24

collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodica lly and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3834-1] mysql-5.5 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3834-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso April 25, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: collectd-5.7.1-3.fc25

collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodica lly and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: firefox-53.0-2.fc25

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

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2017-492)

This update for xen to version 4.7.2 fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-7228: Broken check in memoryexchange permited PV guest breakout bsc1030442. - XSA-206: Unprivileged guests issuing writes to xenstore were able to stall progress of the control domain o...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: jenkins-xstream-1.4.7-11.jenkins1.fc25

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. A high level facade is supplied that simplifies common use cases. Custom objects can be serialized without need for specifying mappings. Speed and low memory footprint are a crucial part of the design, making it suitable for...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: xstream-1.4.9-5.fc25

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. A high level facade is supplied that simplifies common use cases. Custom objects can be serialized without need for specifying mappings. Speed and low memory footprint are a crucial part of the design, making it suitable for...