Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect WebSphere Transformation Extender (CVE-2015-2613, CVE-2015-2601, CVE-2015-4749, CVE-2015-2625, CVE-2015-1931)

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Technology Edition, Versions 5, 6, 7 that are used by WebSphere Transformation Extender. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in July 2015. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-2613 DESCRIPTIO...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in the GSKit component of Transformation Extender (CVE-2016-0201, CVE-2015-7421, CVE-2015-7420)

Summary Vulnerabilities have been addressed in the GSKit component of Transformation Extender. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-0201 DESCRIPTION: IBM GSKit could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a MD5 collision. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability t...

Security Bulletin: GNU C library (glibc) vulnerability affects WebSphere Transformation Extender with Launcher Hypervisor Edition [for RHEL] (CVE-2015-0235)

Summary GNU C library glibc vulnerability that has been referred to as GHOST affects WebSphere Transformation Extender with Launcher Hypervisor Edition for RHEL. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-0235 DESCRIPTION: The gethostbyname functions of the GNU C Library glibc are vulnerable to a buff...

Security Bulletin: TLS padding vulnerability affects WebSphere Transformation Extender Secure Adapter Collection (CVE-2014-8730)

Summary Transport Layer Security TLS padding vulnerability via a POODLE Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption like attack affects WebSphere Transformation Extender Secure Adapter Collection. Vulnerability Details CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8730 DESCRIPTION: Product could allow a remote attacker to...

Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender Secure Adapter Collection vulnerabilities: RSA BSAFE-C (CVE-2014-4191, CVE-2014-4192) and SSLv3 (CVE-2014-3566)

Summary EMC RSA BSAFE-C Toolkits, utilized by WebSphere Transformation Extender Secure Adapter Collection, could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. Additionally, SSLv3 contains a vulnerability that has been referred to as the Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Bash and GNU C Library affect WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) with Launcher Hypervisor Edition (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-5119, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187)

Summary Bash and GNU C Library vulnerabilities were disclosed in September 2014. This bulletin addresses the vulnerabilities that have been referred to as “Bash Bug” or “Shellshock”, a heap-based buffer overflow, and two memory corruption vulnerabilities. Bash and glibc are included in Red Hat...

Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender Secure Adapter Collection 8.4.1.1 CPU utilization and insecure Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (CVE-2014-0963, CVE-2014-0076)

Summary IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender Secure Adapter Collection product is affected by two issues: one related to the TLS implementation which, under very specific conditions, can cause CPU utilization to rapidly increase, the other related to an insecure Elliptic Curve Digital Signature...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in WebSphere Transformation Extender (CVE-2013-5802 CVE-2013-4002 CVE-2013-5825 CVE-2013-5372 CVE-2013-0599 CVE-2013-0464 CVE-2013-0467 CVE-2013-2962 CVE-2013-2415)

Summary WebSphere Transformation Extender products are affected by multiple security vulnerabilities that exist in Oracle JRE and IBM Eclipse Help System. Additionally, WTX Launcher is vulnerable to a denial of service attack using a buffer overflow. Vulnerability Details WebSphere Transformation...

Security Bulletin: Potential Security Vulnerabilities in Oracle Java 6 SDK affecting IBM WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8

Summary IBM WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.x has a potential security exposure due to vulnerabilities in the Oracle Java 6 SDK that allow remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Java platform via various vectors. It happens only ...

QSC18 Virtual Edition – Building Security In: The Qualys Cloud Platform and Architecture

Digital transformation, driven primarily by the DevOps movement, represents a new opportunity “to redo IT from scratch, but more importantly, to redo security from scratch,” Sumedh Thakar, Qualys' Chief Product Officer, said during QSC18 Virtual Edition. Specifically, organizations can organicall...

QSC18 Virtual Edition – Securing our Networks and Enabling the Digital Transformation: One App at a Time

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot set the tone for the company’s first virtual conference, the QSC18 Virtual Edition, with a call to the industry to re-invent security to protect digital transformation efforts. CIOs and CISOs can’t continue accumulating disparate, point solutions that are...

Updating your cybersecurity strategy to enable and accelerate digital transformation

This post is authored by Cyril Voisin, Chief Security Advisor, Enterprise Cybersecurity Group. Nowadays every company is becoming a digital company to some extent. Digital transformation changes the way business is done. For example, it puts more control into the hands of employees, who now deman...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5438

A use-after-free vulnerability during XSLT processing due to the result handler being held by a freed handler during handling. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.1, Firefox ESR 45.9, Firefox ESR 52.1, and Firefox 53...

Partner Perspectives: How TrapX & Carbon Black Use Deception Technology to Better Protect Your Enterprise

As organizations continue to move toward digital transformation, the digital workspace ecosystem of IoT devices, endpoints, and networks continues to grow and evolve. This new landscape creates many opportunities for potential attackers. Security becomes even more important for everyone in this n...

QSC 2018 Mumbai Finds Qualys at the Forefront of Digital Transformation Security

Qualys Security Conference 2018, held in Mumbai on May 10, fortified Qualys’ stand as the leader in securing Digital Transformation in the current global IT landscape. In his keynote, “Our Journey into the Cloud: The Qualys Platform and Architecture”, Qualys Vice President of Product Management...

Kernel: ipsec: xfrm: use-after-free leading to potential privilege escalation

The Linux kernel is vulerable to a use-after-free flaw when Transformation User configuration interfaceCONFIGXFRMUSER compile-time configuration were enabled. This vulnerability occurs while closing a xfrm netlink socket in xfrmdumppolicydone. A user/process could abuse this flaw to potentially...

Turning the Tables on Cyber Attackers

Today, Carbon Black joins the community of public companies NASDAQ: CBLK. While we are humbled and excited by this milestone, we also acknowledge there’s plenty of progress still to be made. For Carbon Black as a company and the industry as a whole, that progress starts with shifting the balance ...

Zero Trust and the Identity

Digital transformation is occurring faster than most people realize, and is impacting every component of the IT organization. Some of the many catalysts include users and applications moving outside the traditional perimeter, users accessing applications that are anywhere, and utilizing many...

When Preparing for GDPR, Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security

With organizations aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure, protecting these environments is critical for compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. These public cloud platforms are being used to pow...

Akamai 2018 Spring Release, In A Nutshell

Progressing Towards Our Future in The Cloud, Together As organizations continue to fuel and execute on their digital transformation ambitions, they're increasingly finding significant business agility and cost savings by adopting cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures. Availability, security...