Solar, Wind Power Utility Disrupted in Rare Cyberattack

A cyberattack on the U.S. energy grid has just come to light, so to speak, which disrupted plant visibility at Utah-based sPower back in March. sPower, a Utah-based wind and solar provider, began experiencing a series of lost connections between its main control center and remote power-generation...

CVE-2019-6658

On BIG-IP AFM 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.0.0-14.1.2, 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, and 12.1.0-12.1.5, a vulnerability in the AFM configuration utility may allow any authenticated BIG-IP user to run an SQL injection attack...

CVE-2019-6658: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

On BIG-IP AFM 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.0.0-14.1.2, 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, and 12.1.0-12.1.5, a vulnerability in the AFM configuration utility may allow any authenticated BIG-IP user to run an SQL injection attack...

CVE-2019-6657: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

On BIG-IP 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, 12.1.0-12.1.5, and 11.5.2-11.6.5.1, a reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in an undisclosed page of the BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface TMUI, also known as the BIG-IP Configuration utility...

PT-2019-18240

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions BIG-IP AFM versions 12.1.0 through 12.1.5 BIG-IP AFM versions 13.1.0 through 13.1.3.1 BIG-IP AFM versions 14.0.0 through 14.1.2 BIG-IP AFM versions 15.0.0 through 15.0.1 Description A vulnerability in the AFM configuration utility may allow an...

Persistence – Netsh Helper DLL

Netsh is a Windows utility which can be used by administrators to perform tasks related to the network configuration of a system and perform modifications on the host based Windows firewall. Netsh functionality can be extended with the usage of DLL files. This capability enable red teams to use...

Amazon Linux 2 : patch (ALAS-2019-1317)

doedscript in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638 , but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.CVE-2018-20969 GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Multiple vulnerabilities in bzip2 (3c7edc7a-f680-11e9-a87f-a4badb2f4699)

The decompressor used in bzip2 contains a bug which can lead to an out-of-bounds write when processing a specially crafted bzip21 file. bzip2recover contains a heap use-after-free bug which can be triggered when processing a specially crafted bzip21 file. Impact : An attacker who can cause...

wget: do_conversion() heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the GNU Wget in version 1.20.1 and earlier when processing Internationalized Resource Identifiers. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service...

IBM DB2 High Performance Unload load for LUW Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

IBM DB2 is a relational database management system from IBM in the United States. The main execution environments for this system are UNIX, Linux, IBMi, z/OS, and Windows server versions.High Performance Unload load for LUW is a DB2 utility program. The program can be used to unload DB2 tables fr...

Security Bulletin: Security vulnerabilities in libuser affect IBM Netezza Host Management (CVE-2015-3246 and CVE-2015-3245)

Summary Two security vulnerabilities were discovered in Red Hat Linux. The vulnerabilities are in the userhelper utility part of the usermode package and the libuser library. Both libraries are installed by default on Red Hat Linux distributions. Authenticated, local users with shell access could...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1959-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1959-1] xtrlock security update

Package : xtrlock Version : 2.6+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-10894 Debian Bug : 830726 It was discovered that multitouch devices were not being disabled by the "xtrlock" screen locking utility. xtrlock did not block multitouch events so an attacker could still input and thus control various programs...

CVE-2018-1000156

GNU Patch version 2.7.6 contains an input validation vulnerability when processing patch files, specifically the EDITORPROGRAM invocation using ed can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via a patch file processed via the patch utility. This is similar to FreeBSD's...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Versions 7 and 8 used by IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility. The IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility have addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4473...

Astra Linux DoS

The vulnerability of the solid utility function in the Astra Linux operating system is related to the incorrect display of information on unmounted flash drives. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

Astra Linux xca DoS

The vulnerability of the xca utility in the Astra Linux operating system is related to a bug that causes the program to terminate abnormally when a dialog window is closed. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

News Wrap: GandCrab Operators Resurface, Utilities Firms Hit By LookBack Malware

On this week’s news wrap podcast, Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell break down the top news, including: Despite claiming they were retiring, GandCrab’s authors have been linked to the REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware via a technical analysis. A spearphishing campaign, first spotted i...

hardware abstraction driver Privilege Escalation

The vulnerability of the software-based hardware abstraction driver for the Intel Processor Identification Utility is related to access control deficiencies. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges, disclose sensitive information, or cause service failures...

CVE-2019-6651

In BIG-IP 15.0.0, 14.1.0-14.1.0.6, 14.0.0-14.0.0.5, 13.0.0-13.1.1.5, 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, 11.5.1-11.6.4, BIG-IQ 7.0.0, 6.0.0-6.1.0,5.2.0-5.4.0, iWorkflow 2.3.0, and Enterprise Manager 3.1.1, the Configuration utility login page may not follow best security practices when handling a malicious request...