Security update for singularity (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for singularity Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0095-1 Rating: moderate References: 1100333 1111411 Cross-References: CVE-2018-12021 CVE-2018-19295 Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 An update that fixes two vulnerabilities...

How threat actors are using SMB vulnerabilities

Some of the most devastating ransomware and Trojan malware variants depend on vulnerabilities in the Windows Server Message Block SMB to propagate through an organization’s network. Windows SMB is a protocol used by PCs for file and printer sharing, as well as for access to remote services. A pat...

Cisco Coverage for Shamoon 2 & 3

Update Dec. 14, 2018 10:30 CST: Added new Shamoon 3 IOCs Shamoon is a type of destructive malware that has been previously associated with attacks against various organizations in the oil and gas industry that we've been tracking since 2012. A new variant of this threat, identified as Shamoon 2,...

Crypto currency mining machine using Elasticsearch vulnerability propagation-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

ElasticSearch is based on Lucene search server. It provides a distributed multi-user capability of the full-text search engine, based on the RESTful web interface. Elasticsearch is developed in Java, and as the Apache license under the terms of the open source release, is the current popular...

Old-School Bagle Worm Still Ready for Modern Spam Campaigns

The long-running Bagle worm, affecting Microsoft Windows machines, is still out there, a throwback to an earlier time. Also referred to as Beagle, Bagle contains a backdoor that listens on TCP port 6777 which is hardcoded in the worm’s body. This backdoor component provides remote access to the...

ruby: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats...

Infection Monkey v1.6 - An Automated Pentest Tool

The Infection Monkey is an open source security tool for testing a data center's resiliency to perimeter breaches and internal server infection. The Monkey uses various methods to self-propagate across a data center and reports success to a centralized Monkey Island server. The Infection Monkey i...

Threat Roundup for November 2 to November 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 02 and Nov. 09. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2018:2407-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 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...

Apache CXF TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.*

It is possible to configure Apache CXF to use the com.sun.net.ssl implementation via 'System.setProperty"java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol";'. When this system property is set, CXF uses some reflection to try to make the HostnameVerifier work with the old...

GHSA-R97X-3G8F-GX3M The Bouncy Castle JCE Provider carry a propagation bug

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???. These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations...

The Bouncy Castle JCE Provider carry a propagation bug

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???. These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations...

Innovative Phishing Tactic Makes Inroads Using Azure Blob

A fresh tactic for phishing Office 365 users employs credential-harvesting forms hosted on Azure Blob storage – signed with legitimate Microsoft SSL certificates to lend an air of legitimacy. Azure Blob Storage is a cloud storage solution for hosting unstructured data such as images, video or tex...

Updated bouncycastle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated bouncycastle packages fix security vulnerabilities: Ensure full validation of ASN.1 encoding of signature on verification. It was possible to inject extra elements in the sequence making up the signature and still have it validate, which in some cases may have allowed the introduction of...

XBash Malware Packs Double Punch: Destroys Data and Mines for Crypto Coins

Researchers have discovered a new sophisticated malware family in the wild, which wrecks havoc on Windows and Linux systems with a combination of data destructive ransomware and malicious cryptomining. The malware, dubbed by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers who discovered it as Xbash, has...

Storefront 3.15 | Storefront propagation fails.

Propagation fails on Server 2012R2 machine. In event logs: Log Name: Citrix Delivery Services Source: Citrix Configuration Replication An error occurred when starting the 'WAS' Windows service. System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException, System.ServiceProcess, Version-4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,...

openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64

There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely...

Security Bulletin: WebSphere DataPower Appliances is affected by multiple issues

Summary WebSphere DataPower Appliances has addressed the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1447 CVE-2018-1388 CVE-2016-0702 CVE-2016-0705 CVE-2017-3732 CVE-2017-3736 CVE-2018-1428 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1447 DESCRIPTION: The GSKit CMS KDB logic fails to salt the hash function...

bouncycastle: Carry propagation bug in math.raw.Nat??? class

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???. These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations...

apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.*

It was discovered that when Apache CXF is configured to use the system property com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol ,it uses reflection to make the HostnameVerifier work with old com.sun.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier interface. Although the CXF implementation throws an exception, which is caught in...