Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and Client Management Service (CVE-2018-2579, CVE-2018-2693, CVE-2018-2783)

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ that is used by IBM Spectrum Protect formerly Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center and IBM Spectrum Protect formerly Tivoli Storage Manager Client Management Service. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Ja...

Good Primer on Two-Factor Authentication Security

Stuart Schechter published a good primer on the security issues surrounding two-factor authentication. While it's often an important security measure, it's not a panacea. Stuart discusses the usability and security issues that you have to think about before deploying the system...

SUSE-SU-2018:2472-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 1 for SLE 15)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.12.14-253 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-5390: Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcpcollapseofoqueue and tcppruneofoqueue for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : wireshark (SUSE-SU-2018:2412-1)

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - bsc1094301: Wireshark security update to 2.6.1, 2.4.7, 2.2.15 - CVE-2018-14339: MMSE dissector infinite loop wnpa-sec-2018-38, bsc1101810 - CVE-2018-14341: DICOM dissector crash wnpa-sec-2018-39, bsc1101776 -...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2341-1) (Foreshadow)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52125 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2368-1) (Foreshadow)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606485 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3743-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

SUSE-SU-2018:2389-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 23 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.121-9285 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

SUSE-SU-2018:2355-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 20 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606457 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

SUSE-SU-2018:2368-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 26 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606485 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

SUSE-SU-2018:2364-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 28 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606493 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

SUSE-SU-2018:2342-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 35 for SLE 12)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52133 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-1058) (Foreshadow)

Fixes for L1Terminal Fault security issues : L1 Terminal Fault-OS/ SMM : Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access via a terminal page...

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:2327-1 Security update for python-Django

This update for python-Django to 1.11.15 fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-14574: Prevent open redirect in django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware bsc1102680. These non-security issues were fixed: - Fixed WKBWriter.write and writehex for empty polygons on GEO...

SUSE-SU-2018:2299-1 Security update for ceph

This update for ceph fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-10861: Fix ceph-mon authorization on OSD pool ops bsc1099162. - CVE-2018-1128: Fix cephx signature check bypass bsc1096748. - CVE-2018-1129: Fix cephx protocol vulnerability to replay attack bsc1096748. -...

SUSE-SU-2018:2262-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.103-633 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

Fedora 27 : seamonkey (2018-2cf8d705ad)

Update to 2.49.4 Based on the Firefox/Thunderbird ESR extension support release code version 52.9.1 Fixes various security issues, see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-e sr/ and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbi rd/ for more...

openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2018-793)

This update for wireshark fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-14342: BGP dissector large loop wnpa-sec-2018-34, boo1101777 - CVE-2018-14344: ISMP dissector crash wnpa-sec-2018-35, boo1101788 - CVE-2018-14340: Multiple dissectors could crash wnpa-sec-2018-36, boo1101804...

Adventures in vulnerability reporting

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero At Project Zero, we spend a lot of time reporting security bugs to vendors. Most of the time, this is a fairly straightforward process, but we occasionally encounter challenges getting information about vulnerabilities into the hands of vendors. Since i...

USN-3725-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.61 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been updated to MySQL 5.7.23. In addition to security fixes, the updated...