Denial Of Service (DoS)

httpd is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in the way httpd handled child process status information. A malicious program running with httpd child process privileges such as a PHP or CGI script could use this flaw to cause the parent httpd process t...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

apache qpid is vulnerable to denial of service. A flaw was found in the way Apache Qpid handled a request to redeclare an existing exchange while adding a new alternate exchange. If a remote, authenticated user issued such a request, the server would crash, resulting in the cluster shutting down...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

apache qpid is vulnerable to denial of service. A flaw was found in the way Apache Qpid handled the receipt of invalid AMQP data. A remote user could send invalid AMQP data to the server, causing it to crash, resulting in the cluster shutting down...

Authentication Bypass

kdebase is vulnerable to authentication bypass. The vulnerability exists in the way KDM handled logins when autologin and "shutdown with password" were enabled. A local user would have been able to login via KDM as any user without requiring a password...

0x1E Stop error when you restart or shut down a computer running Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2

0x1E Stop error when you restart or shut down a computer running Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 This article describes an issue in which the system crashes with "0x1E" Stop error when you restart or shut down a computer that is running Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, or Windows Server 2012 R2...

Unexpected ASP.Net application shutdown after many App_Data file changes occur on a server that is running Windows Server 2012 R2

Unexpected ASP.Net application shutdown after many AppData file changes occur on a server that is running Windows Server 2012 R2 Symptoms Consider the following scenario: You have a server that is running Windows Server 2012 R2. You set up a website on Internet Information Services IIS. You creat...

httpd: read-after-free in h2 connection shutdown

A read-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Apache httpd, in modhttp2. A specially crafted http/2 client session could cause the server to read memory that was previously freed during connection shutdown, potentially leading to a crash...

httpd: read-after-free in h2 connection shutdown

A read-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Apache httpd, in modhttp2. A specially crafted http/2 client session could cause the server to read memory that was previously freed during connection shutdown, potentially leading to a crash...

Emotet Malware Causes Physical Damage

Microsoft is reporting that an Emotet malware infection shut down a network by causing computers to overheat and then crash. The Emotet payload was delivered and executed on the systems of Fabrikam -- a fake name Microsoft gave the victim in their case study -- five days after the employee's user...

CVE-2020-10863

An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint for the TaskEx library in the Avast Service AvastSvc.exe allows attackers to trigger a shutdown via RPC from a Low Integrity process via TempShutDownMachine...

CVE-2020-10863

An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint for the TaskEx library in the Avast Service AvastSvc.exe allows attackers to trigger a shutdown via RPC from a Low Integrity process via TempShutDownMachine...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint for the TaskEx library in the Avast Service AvastSvc.exe allows attackers to trigger a shutdown via RPC from a Low Integrity process via TempShutDownMachine...

CVE-2020-10863

CVE-2020-10863 affects Avast Antivirus before version 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint of the TaskEx library in AvastSvc.exe can be invoked from a Low Integrity process to trigger a shutdown via TempShutDownMachine. Documents from multiple sources corroborate this denial-of-service-style impact (shut...

CVE-2020-10863

An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint for the TaskEx library in the Avast Service AvastSvc.exe allows attackers to trigger a shutdown via RPC from a Low Integrity process via TempShutDownMachine...

Annual Protest to ‘Fight Krebs’ Raises €150K+

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive -- a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals -- as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum. In protest of that story, forum members donated hundreds of...

SUSE-RU-2020:0793-1 Recommended update for systemd

This update for systemd fixes the following issues: - manager: fix job mode when signalled to shutdown etc bsc1161262 - remove fallback for user/exit.target - dbus method Manager.Exit does not start exit.target - do not install rescue.target for alt-↑ - %j/%J unit specifiers Added support for I/O...

Schedule reboot does not restart machines and it stays in Shutdown state in Virtual App - 7.15 LTSR

When Delivery Group scheduled time for reboot hits some VDAs reboot normally but others remain in Shutdown state until they are manually turned on...

Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA's Phone Metadata Program

The New York Times is reporting on the NSA's phone metadata program, which the NSA shut down last year: A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans' domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigatio...

U.S. Pipeline Disrupted by Ransomware Attack

A ransomware attack has hit a natural gas compression facility in the U.S., the feds have warned. The attack resulted in a two-day pipeline shutdown as the unnamed victim worked to bring systems back online from backups. The attackers were able penetrate the IT portion of the facility’s network,...

SUSE-SU-2020:0424-1 Security update for rsyslog

This update for rsyslog fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-17041: Fixed a heap overflow in the parser for AIX log messages bsc1153451. - CVE-2019-17042: Fixed a heap overflow in the parser for Cisco log messages bsc1153459. Non-security issues fixed: - Handle multiline...