Critical Security Fixes from Adobe, Microsoft

Adobe has released updates to fix dozens of vulnerabilities in its Acrobat, Reader and Flash Player software. Separately, Microsoft today issued patches to plug 48 security holes in Windows and other Microsoft products. If you use Windows or Adobe products, it's time once again to get your patche...

Microsoft Patches Critical Windows Search Vulnerability

Microsoft patched more than two dozen remote code execution vulnerabilities today, many of them rated critical. One was a RCE bug that allowed an attacker to take complete control of a server or workstation via Windows Search. The fixes were part of Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday update that...

Qualys new look and new products

As you all know, it's Black Hat 2017 time. This year Qualys seems to be the main newsmaker among Vulnerability Management vendors. Qualys Team renewed logo and website, updated marketing strategy, presented two new products: CloudView and CertView. I decided to take a look. Talking about design, ...

How to Secure Public Clouds while Boosting Digital Transformation

It’s happening all over the business world. Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are aggressively deploying innovative products to new online consumer channels, digitizing their core services and transitioning core business workloads to public clouds as part of digital transformation...

Introducing the Qualys New Look and Positioning

Dear Customer, Partner and Security Professional, I would like to thank all of you for your support during our ongoing journey to a world where we are making security invisible and an integrated component of the Digital Transformation of our enterprises. With your help and the dedication of our...

Virtuozzo 6 : glibc / glibc-common / glibc-devel / glibc-headers / etc (VZLSA-2017-1480)

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Virtuozzo 7 : kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc (VZLSA-2017-1484)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Virtuozzo 6 : kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc (VZLSA-2017-1486)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Virtuozzo 7 : glibc / glibc-common / glibc-devel / glibc-headers / etc (VZLSA-2017-1481)

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Q&A: Conducting Cloud-Based Vendor Risk Audits With Qualys SAQ

Third-party security assessments drastically reduce your organization’s risk of suffering a data breach. When carried out properly, these assessments identify poor InfoSec and privacy practices among your vendors, partners, contractors, and other third parties with access to your IT systems and...

Adobe, Microsoft Push Critical Security Fixes

It's Patch Tuesday, again. That is, if you run Microsoft Windows or Adobe products. Microsoft issued a dozen patch bundles to fix at least 54 security flaws in Windows and associated software. Separately, Adobe's got a new version of its Flash Player available that addresses at least three...

Updated libffi packages fix security vulnerability

libffi, a library used to call code written in one language from code written in a different language, was enforcing an executable stack on the i386 architecture. While this might not be considered a vulnerability by itself, this could be leveraged when exploiting other vulnerabilities, such as t...

FreeBSD - FGPU Stack Clash (PoC) Exploit

Exploit for freebsd/x86 platform in category dos / poc / FreeBSDCVE-2017-FGPU.c for CVE-2017-1084 please compile with -O0 Copyright C 2017 Qualys, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Fre...

NetBSD - Stack Clash (PoC) Exploit

Exploit for netbsd/x86 platform in category dos / poc / NetBSDCVE-2017-1000375.c please compile with -O0 Copyright C 2017 Qualys, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software...

FreeBSD - setrlimit Stack Clash (PoC) Exploit

Exploit for freebsd/x86 platform in category dos / poc / FreeBSDCVE-2017-1085.c Copyright C 2017 Qualys, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of...

FreeBSD - FGPE Stack Clash (PoC) Exploit

Exploit for freebsd/x86 platform in category dos / poc / FreeBSDCVE-2017-FGPE.c for CVE-2017-1084 please compile with -O0 Copyright C 2017 Qualys, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Fre...

Linux Kernel (Debian 7/8/9/10 / Fedora 23/24/25 / CentOS 5.3/5.11/6.0/6.8/7.2.1511) - ldso_hwcap Loc

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / Linuxldsohwcap.c for CVE-2017-1000366, CVE-2017-1000370 Copyright C 2017 Qualys, Inc. myimportanthwcaps adapted from elf/dl-hwcaps.c, part of the GNU C Library: Copyright C 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free...

Countdown to GDPR: Get 20/20 Visibility Into Your IT Assets

Anyone questioning the importance of IT asset visibility in an organization’s security and compliance postures ought to review the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, which goes into effect next year. With the severe requirements the GDPR places on how a business handles the personal da...

OpenBSD - at Stack Clash Local Privilege Escalation

OpenBSD - at Stack Clash Local Privilege Escalation / OpenBSDat.c for CVE-2017-1000373 Copyright c 2017 Qualys, Inc. slowsort adapted from lib/libc/stdlib/qsort.c: Copyright c 1992, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary...

Linux Kernel (Debian 7.78.59.0 Ubuntu 14.04.216.04.217.04 Fedora 2225 CentOS 7.3.1611) - ldso_hwcap_64 Stack Clash Local Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel Debian 7.78.59.0 Ubuntu 14.04.216.04.217.04 Fedora 2225 CentOS 7.3.1611 - ldsohwcap64 Stack Clash Local Privilege Escalation / Linuxldsohwcap64.c for CVE-2017-1000366, CVE-2017-1000379 Copyright C 2017 Qualys, Inc. myimportanthwcaps adapted from elf/dl-hwcaps.c, part of the GNU C...