hostapd and wpa_supplicant information disclosure vulnerabilities

hostapd is a user space daemon for access points and authentication servers. wpasupplicant is a cross-platform WPA request program. The program supports WEP, WPA, and WPA2, among others. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the implementation of SAE and EAP-pwd in versions 2.x throug...

Crypto++ Unspecified Vulnerability

Crypto++ is a C++ cryptographic method library. A security vulnerability exists in Crypto++ 8.3.0 and earlier versions that can be exploited by an attacker to compute the private key used...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10153

A flaw was discovered in fence-agents, prior to version 4.3.4, where using non-ASCII characters in a guest VM's comment or other fields would cause fencerhevm to exit with an exception. In cluster environments, this could lead to preventing automated recovery or otherwise denying service to...

Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was discovered in fence-agents, prior to version 4.3.4, where using non-ASCII characters in a guest VM's comment or other fields would cause fencerhevm to exit with an exception. In cluster environments, this could lead to preventing automated recovery or otherwise denying service to...

CVE-2019-10153

CVE-2019-10153 affects fence-agents prior to version 4.3.4. Multiple advisories (Red Hat, EulerOS, MiracleLinux, NewStart CGSL, Mageia, etc.) document that non‑ASCII characters in a guest VM’s comment/fields can cause fence_rhevm to exit with an exception. In cluster environments this can hinder ...

EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : wpa_supplicant (EulerOS-SA-2019-1779)

According to the version of the wpasupplicant package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The implementations of SAE in hostapd and wpasupplicant are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences a...

IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client Information Disclosure Vulnerability

IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client is a set of client programs for IBM Spectrum Protect file backup and archiving from IBM USA. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client, which can be exploited by an attacker to recover or retrieve object...

QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. Unfortunately for iNSYNQ, the company appears to be turning a deaf ear to the increasingly anxious...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in ASRock DAYS Disaster Recovery Software

ASRock DAYS disaster recovery software belongs to DAYS series of optional products, which integrates disaster recovery, fault tolerance, backup and query functions, and provides one-stack infrastructure, the same disaster recovery management, elasticity, multi-layer data protection, smooth...

The vulnerability of the SCALANCE X switch’s microprogramming software, related to incorrect data storage formatting, allows a intruder to restore passwords.

The vulnerability of the SCALANCE X microcontroller’s software is related to incorrect storage of user credentials. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an intruder to retrieve passwords from the device access to the device’s configuration files is required...

HID Global DigitalPersona U.are.U 4500 Fingerprint Reader Short Key Vulnerability

The HID Global DigitalPersona U.are.U 4500 Fingerprint Reader is a fingerprint reader from HID Global USA. A security vulnerability exists in version v24 of the HID Global DigitalPersona U.are.U 4500 Fingerprint Reader. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to recover a key and decryp...

Researcher Bypasses Instagram 2FA to Hack Any Account

A researcher earned a $30,000 bug bounty from Facebook after discovering a weakness in the Instagram mobile recovery process that would allow account takeover for any user, via mass brute-force campaigns. Independent researcher Laxman Muthiyah took a look at Instagram’s mobile recovery flow, whic...

CVE-2019-13604

There is a short key vulnerability in HID Global DigitalPersona formerly Crossmatch U.are.U 4500 Fingerprint Reader v24. The key for obfuscating the fingerprint image is vulnerable to brute-force attacks. This allows an attacker to recover the key and decrypt that image using the key. Successful...

Why Cities Are a Low-Hanging Fruit For Ransomware

Ransomware attacks against local governments and cities are repeatedly making headlines, with crippling results on city operations and budgets. Last month, the Florida city of Riviera Beach paid hackers $600,000 after being hit by a ransomware attack that downed its computer systems for three...

Where Will Ransomware Go In The Second Half Of 2019?

Ransomware has been an evolutionary malware family that continues to shift and change over the years. From the first fakeAV, to police ransomware, to the now oft-used crypto-ransomware, this threat just will not go away. Based on the latest trends, we predict this threat will grow in the second...

Ransomware Recovery Firms Who Secretly Pay Hackers

ProPublica is reporting on companies that pretend to recover data locked up by ransomware, but just secretly pay the hackers and then mark up the cost to the victims...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10638

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.7, a device can be tracked by an attacker using the IP ID values the kernel produces for connection-less protocols e.g., UDP and ICMP. When such traffic is sent to multiple destination IP addresses, it is possible to obtain hash collisions of indices to the counter...

IBM Patches Critical, High-Severity Flaws in Spectrum Protect

IBM has disclosed critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in Spectrum Protect, Big Blue’s security tool under the umbrella of its Spectrum data storage software branding. The most severe of these flaws could cause a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems. Overall, IBM...

IBM Spectrum Protect Access Control Error Vulnerability

IBM Spectrum Protect formerly known as Tivoli Storage Manager is a suite of data protection platforms from IBM in the United States. The platform provides organizations with a single point of control and management, and supports backup and recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java Runtime affect DB2 Recovery Expert for Linux, Unix and Windows(IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Jan 2019 - Includes Oracle Jan 2019 CPU) )

Summary There is vulnerability in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version Java 1.8.0 SR5 FP16 and earlier used by DB2 Recovery Expert for Linux, Unix and Windows. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in Jan. 2019. Vulnerability Details Relevant CVE Information: CVEID:...