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Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday (August 2021) – Microsoft 51 Vulnerabilities with 7 Critical, Adobe 29 Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – August 2021 Microsoft patched 51 vulnerabilities in their August 2021 Patch Tuesday release, and 7 of them are rated as critical severity. Three 0-day vulnerability patches were included in the release. Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities Patched CVE-2021-36942 - Windows...
QID Spotlight: Discover CBL-Mariner Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR
The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for CBL-Mariner Common Base Linux, allowing security teams to identify CBL-Mariner hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. CBL-Mariner Common Base Linux is developed by Microsoft and is a Linux distributio...
Qualys Research Wins Two 2021 Pwnie Awards
The Qualys Research team won two Pwnie Awards today at Black Hat USA 2021 for discovering and responsibly disclosing these new vulnerabilities: Best Privilege Escalation Bug and Most Under-Hyped Research. The Qualys Research team received these awards: Best Privilege Escalation Bug Heap-based...
Securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS in Red Hat OpenShift with Qualys
Qualys full-stack security for Red Hat OpenShift adds visibility, actionable intelligence, and security auditing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, the operating system that underpins OpenShift deployments for running containers securely. With this new offering, Qualys is now the first and only...
Qualys Research Nominated for Pwnie Awards 2021
The Qualys Research team has been nominated for five Pwnie Awards this year in three different categories. In addition to nominations for Best Privilege Escalation Bug 2 nominations and Best Server-Side Bug 2 nominations, the team is also nominated for Most Under-Hyped Research. Qualys is honored...
CISA Alert: Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities
On July 28, 2021, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released a cybersecurity advisory detailing the top 30 publicly known vulnerabilities that have been routinely exploited by cyber threat actors in 2020 and 2021. Organizations are advised to prioritize and apply...
Exploit for Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Linux Linux_Kernel
CVE-2021-33909 Exploit code for CVE-2021-33909,Just a dump of...
Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4941-1)
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...
Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-2715-1)
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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] [DLA 2714-1] linux-4.19 security update
Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2714-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Ben Hutchings July 20, 2021 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Package : linux-4.19 Version : 4.19.194-3deb9u1 CVE ID : CVE-2020-36311 CVE-2021-3609 CVE-2021-33909 CVE-2021-34693 Debian Bug : 990072 Several...
[SECURITY] [DLA 2713-1] linux security update
Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2713-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Ben Hutchings July 20, 2021 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Package : linux Version : 4.9.272-2 CVE ID : CVE-2021-3609 CVE-2021-21781 CVE-2021-33909 CVE-2021-34693 Debian Bug : 990072 Brief introduction...
[SECURITY] [DLA 2715-1] systemd security update
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2715-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso July 20, 2021 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...
CVE-2021-33910: Denial of Service (Stack Exhaustion) in systemd (PID 1)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a stack exhaustion denial-of-service vulnerability in systemd, a near-ubiquitous utility available on major Linux operating systems. Any unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability to crash systemd and hence the entire operating system a kernel panic...
Sequoia: A Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux’s Filesystem Layer (CVE-2021-33909)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a sizet-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the Linux Kernel’s filesystem layer affecting most Linux operating systems. Any unprivileged user can gain root privileges on a vulnerable host by exploiting this vulnerability in a default configuration. Abou...
[SECURITY] [DSA 4942-1] systemd security update
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4942-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso July 20, 2021 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
[SECURITY] [DSA 4942-1] systemd security update
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4942-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso July 20, 2021 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday (July 2021) – Microsoft 117 Vulnerabilities with 13 Critical, Adobe 26 Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – July 2021 Microsoft patched 117 vulnerabilities in their July 2021 Patch Tuesday release, and 13 of them are rated as critical severity. Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities Patched CVE-2021-34448 – Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability This is being actively...
Kaseya REvil Ransomware Attack (CVE-2021-30116) – Automatically Discover and Prioritize Using Qualys VMDR®
On July 2, 2021, Kaseya announced its software had been compromised and was being used to attack the IT infrastructure of its customers. The REvil ransomware attack leveraged multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Kaseya’s VSA Virtual System/Server Administrator product that helps Kaseya customers ...
Microsoft Windows Print Spooler RCE Vulnerability (PrintNightmare-CVE-2021-34527) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®
Update July 9, 2021: Added "Registry Settings Check After Installing the Updates" section below. Original Post: On June 29, 2021, a zero-day exploit was observed on Microsoft Windows systems which allows authenticated users with a regular Domain User account to gain full SYSTEM-level privileges. ...