[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: binutils-2.31.1-17.fc29

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar for creating, modifying and extracting from archives, as a family of GNU assemblers, gprof for displaying call graph profile data, ld the GNU linker, nm for listing symbols from object files, objcopy for copying and translating object...

Chafer APT Takes Aim at Diplomats in Iran with Improved Custom Malware

UPDATE An Iran-linked APT known as Chafer has been spotted targeting various entities based in Iran with an enhanced version of a custom malware that takes a very unique approach to communication by using the Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS mechanism over HTTP. Meanwhile th...

UPDATE: Buscador Version 2.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed I briefly mentioned about Buscador in my previous post titled - List of Operating Systems for OSINT Open-Source Intelligence. A few days ago, an updated - Buscador Version 2.0 was made available by the author. This post is about the changes made in the latest version. What is...

The vulnerability of the file2strvec function in the command-line utilities of procps-ng allows a attacker to escalate their privileges and execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the file2strvec function in the procps-ng command-line utilities is related to integer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code...

GNU Binutils Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-01856)

GNU Binutils also known as GNU Binary Utilities or binutils is a group of programming language utility programs developed by the GNU Project to work with target files in a variety of formats, with connectors, assemblers, and other tools for target files and archives.GNU libiberty is one of the GN...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20671

loadspecificdebugsection in objdump.c in GNU Binutils through 2.31.1 contains an integer overflow vulnerability that can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted section size...

GNU Binutils Memory Leak Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-00955)

GNU Binutils also known as GNU Binary Utilities or binutils is a group of programming language utility programs developed by the GNU Project to work with target files in a variety of formats, with connectors, assemblers, and other tools for target files and archives.GNU libiberty is one of the GN...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: net-snmp-5.8-3.fc29

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol is a protocol used for network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools: an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the...

Russian Hackers Haven't Stopped Probing the US Power Grid

Researchers warn that utilities hackers don't need to cause blackouts to do damage...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : procps (SUSE-SU-2018:2451-2)

This update for procps fixes the following security issues : CVE-2018-1122: Prevent local privilege escalation in top. If a user ran top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could have achieved privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: elfutils-0.174-5.fc28

Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including stack to show backtraces, nm for listing symbols from object files, size for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file, strip for discarding symbols, readelf to see the raw ELF file structures, elflint to check for well-formed ELF file...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: elfutils-0.174-5.fc29

Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including stack to show backtraces, nm for listing symbols from object files, size for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file, strip for discarding symbols, readelf to see the raw ELF file structures, elflint to check for well-formed ELF file...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: icu-62.1-3.fc29

Tools and utilities for developing with icu...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: mkvtoolnix-28.2.0-1.fc27

Mkvtoolnix is a set of utilities to mux and demux audio, video and subtitle streams into and from Matroska containers...

Norton Utilities DLL Preloading Vulnerability (SYMSA1459) - Windows

Norton Utilities is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. 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 CPE =...

Norton Utilities Detection (Windows SMB Login)

Detects the installed version of Norton Utilities on Windows. The script logs in via smb, searches for 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:...

Utilities, Energy Sector Attacked Mainly Via IT, Not ICS

While industrial control systems ICS are the most talked-about when it comes to cyberattacks against energy and utilities firms, most attacks actually take aim at the enterprise IT networks used by these organizations, rather than critical infrastructure itself. The Vectra 2018 Spotlight Report o...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: coreutils-8.30-5.fc29

These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages...

binutils: Crash in elf.c:bfd_section_from_shdr() with crafted executable

The bfdsectionfromshdr function in elf.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a large attribute section...

binutils: Improper bounds check in coffgen.c:coff_pointerize_aux() allows for denial of service when parsing a crafted COFF file

In the coffpointerizeaux function in coffgen.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, an index is not validated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafte...