An In-Depth Look Into Data Stacking

Mandiant's Nick Bennett and Jake Valletta discussed data stacking at MIRcon™ last month. If you were unable to attend the talk, we will discuss this data analysis technique here on the M-Unition blog. What is Data Stacking? Data stacking is the application of frequency analysis to large volumes o...

Automated Toolkits Named in Massive DDoS Attacks Against U.S. Banks

Attackers targeting major U.S. banks with distributed denial of service attacks are using a number of toolkits to automate the job. Prolexic Technologies, a security company specializing in DDoS protection services, identified one toolkit called itsoknoproblembro, a kit that attacks multiple port...

smb-ls NSE Script

Attempts to retrieve useful information about files shared on SMB volumes. The output is intended to resemble the output of the UNIX ls command. Script Arguments smb-ls.path the path, relative to the share to list the contents from default: root of the share smb-ls.pattern the search pattern to...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

kernel: possible privilege escalation via SG_IO ioctl

The Linux kernel before 3.2.2 does not properly restrict SGIO ioctl calls, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions on disk read and write operations by sending a SCSI command to 1 a partition block device or 2 an LVM volume...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Number 5732)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1 kernel was updated to 2.6.32.54, fixing lots of bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - A potential hypervisor escape by issuing SGIO commands to partitiondevices was fixed by restricting access to these commands. CVE-2011-4127 ...

Fedora 16 : openstack-nova-2011.3.1-0.4.10818.fc16 (2012-0682)

Update to 2011.3.1 release candidate. See https://launchpad.net/nova/+milestone/2011.3.1 This also includes a minor bug fix for libguestfs file injection This update includes 50 patches from the upstream stable branch and a fix for an issue with attaching volumes. Sync up with Fedora spec, to onl...

kernel: possible privilege escalation via SG_IO ioctl

The Linux kernel before 3.2.2 does not properly restrict SGIO ioctl calls, which allows local users to bypass intended restrictions on disk read and write operations by sending a SCSI command to 1 a partition block device or 2 an LVM volume...

PT-2011-4852 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.2.2 Description: The issue allows local users to bypass intended restrictions on disk read and write operations. This is achieved by sending a SCSI command to either a partition block device or an LVM volume,...

Mac OS X Trojan Goes BitCoin Mining, Steals Files

A new Trojan targeting Mac OS X users is not only after data, but Bitcoins as well. The malware is being detected by Sophos as Miner-D, but is also known as DevilRobber. According to Sophos, the Trojan is hiding inside pirated versions of the Mac OS X image editing application GraphicConverter...

SuSE 10 Security Update : pure-ftpd (ZYPP Patch Number 7723)

The OES Netware add-ons in pure-ftpd had a security problem and some bugs, which are fixed by this update. A local attacker could overwrite local files when the OES remote server feature of pure-ftpd is enabled due to a directory traversal. CVE-2011-3171 Additionally the following bugs have been...

Windows Gather Physical Drives and Logical Volumes

This module will list physical drives and logical volumes This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework List physical drives and logical volumes on the remote system R. Wesley McGrew [email protected]...

Windows Gather Local NBD Server

Maps remote disks and logical volumes to a local Network Block Device server. Allows for forensic tools to be executed on the remote disk directly. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework nbdserver.rb Maps...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security and bug fix update

Updated libvirt packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...

afp-ls NSE Script

Attempts to get useful information about files from AFP volumes. The output is intended to resemble the output of ls. Script Arguments afp.password, afp.username See the documentation for the afp library. ls.checksum, ls.empty, ls.errors, ls.human, ls.maxdepth, ls.maxfiles See the documentation f...

kernel: buffer overflow in OSS load_mixer_volumes

The loadmixervolumes function in sound/oss/soundcard.c in the OSS sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 incorrectly expects that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to conduct buffer overflow attacks and gain privileges, or possibly obtain sensiti...

After A Lull, Botnets Back In Business

After a lull in the fourth quarter of 2010, spam appears to be back in full force, according to reports from both Websense, Commtouch and Symantec Corp.Spam volume was up 45% in the first half of January after diving in Q4 according to a Commtouch spam report. Reports show the recently dormant...

Fedora Update for lvm2 FEDORA-2010-13239

Check for the Version of lvm2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for lvm2 FEDORA-2010-13239 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms o...

Fedora Update for pam_mount FEDORA-2010-12950

Check for the Version of pammount OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pammount FEDORA-2010-12950 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: pam_mount-2.5-1.fc14

This module is aimed at environments with central file servers that a user wishes to mount on login and unmount on logout, such as semi-diskless stations where many users can logon. The module also supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code ...