A week in security (November 23 – November 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we talked with Chris Boyd about charities that track you online. We also looked back at Zoom, and wondered whether its any safer months after its first vulnerability was reported. We talked about how Apples security is hampering the detection of potentially unwante...

Ericsson BSCS iX R Billing & Rating Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Ericsson Ericsson BSCS iX R18 Billing & Rating is a web platform for telecom billing from Ericsson Sweden. Ericsson BSCS iX R18 Billing & Rating iX R18 suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability that stems from the MX web base module being vulnerable to stored XSS via warning dashboard...

GaussDB Kernel: Configuring the Maximum Number of Audit Log Files

The parameter auditfileremainthreshold specifies the maximum number of audit log files. When the total number of audit log files exceeds the specified value, the system writes the warning information to the database logs, deletes the earliest audit log files, and records the deletion to the audit...

GaussDB Kernel: Configuring the Maximum Disk Space Occupied by All Audit Log Files

The parameter auditspacelimit specifies the maximum disk space occupied by all audit log files. When the total size of audit log files exceeds the maximum value, the system writes the warning information to the database logs, deletes the earliest audit log files, and records the deletion to the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28638

askpassword in Tomb 2.0 through 2.7 returns a warning when pinentry-curses is used and $DISPLAY is non-empty, causing affected users' files to be encrypted with "tomb W Detected DISPLAY, but only pinentry-curses is found." as the encryption key...

CVE-2020-28638

askpassword in Tomb 2.0 through 2.7 returns a warning when pinentry-curses is used and $DISPLAY is non-empty, causing affected users' files to be encrypted with "tomb W Detected DISPLAY, but only pinentry-curses is found." as the encryption key...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28638

askpassword in Tomb 2.0 through 2.7 returns a warning when pinentry-curses is used and $DISPLAY is non-empty, causing affected users' files to be encrypted with "tomb W Detected DISPLAY, but only pinentry-curses is found." as the encryption key...

CVE-2020-28638

askpassword in Tomb 2.0 through 2.7 returns a warning when pinentry-curses is used and $DISPLAY is non-empty, causing affected users' files to be encrypted with "tomb W Detected DISPLAY, but only pinentry-curses is found." as the encryption key...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

4.14.35-2025.402.2.1.el7 - powercap: restrict energy meter to root access Kanth Ghatraju Orabug: 32040805 CVE-2020-8694 CVE-2020-8695 4.14.35-2025.402.2.el7 - ocfs2: fix remounting needed after setfacl command Gang He - Fix multiple variable definition with syzkaller Hans Westgaard Ry Orabug:...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container security update

4.14.35-2025.402.2.1.el7 - powercap: restrict energy meter to root access Kanth Ghatraju Orabug: 32040805 CVE-2020-8694 CVE-2020-8695 4.14.35-2025.402.2.el7 - ocfs2: fix remounting needed after setfacl command Gang He - Fix multiple variable definition with syzkaller Hans Westgaard Ry Orabug:...

openGauss: Configuring the Maximum Disk Space Occupied by All Audit Log Files

The parameter auditspacelimit specifies the maximum disk space occupied by all audit log files. When the total size of audit log files exceeds the maximum value, the system writes the warning information to the database logs, deletes the earliest audit log files, and records the deletion to the...

openGauss: Configuring the Level of Error-Deriving SQL Statements to Be Logged

The logminerrorstatement parameter specifies which level of SQL statements that cause an error will be recorded into server logs. SQL statements whose levels are higher than or equal to the configured level will be recorded into server logs. The valid values include DEBUG5, DEBUG4, DEBUG3, DEBUG2...

openGauss: Configuring the Client Log Message Level

The parameter clientminmessages specifies the level of messages to be sent to the client. The valid values include DEBUG5, DEBUG4, DEBUG3, DEBUG2, DEBUG1, LOG, NOTICE, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL, and PANIC. It must be NOTICE at least. After a level is selected, messages at this level and its lower...

openSUSE Security Update : icinga2 (openSUSE-2020-1820)

This update for icinga2 fixes the following issues : - Info that since version 2.12.0 following security issue is fixed: prepare-dirs script allows for symlink attack in the icinga user context. boo1172171 CVE-2020-14004 Update to 2.12.1 : - Bugfixes + Core - Fix crashes during config update 8348...

2 More Hospitals Hit by Growing Wave of Ransomware Attacks, As Feds Issue Warning

UPDATE Two more hospitals were hit with ransomware attacks this week as a growing number of criminals target healthcare facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The troubling trend prompted federal law enforcement and health officials, on Wednesday, to sound the alarm and issue a dire warning of...

Chrome 86 Aims to Bar Abusive Notification Content

Google has added a new feature to Chrome 86 that aims to stomp out abusive notification content. Web notifications are utilized for a variety of applications – such as prompting site visitors to sign up for newsletters. However, they can also be misused for phishing, malware or fake messages that...

Office 365 OAuth Attack Targets Coinbase Users

Office 365 users are receiving emails purporting to come from cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, which ask them to download updated Terms of Service via an OAuth consent app. But when they agree to do so, users are unknowingly giving attackers full access to their email. OAuth is an open standard...

CVE-2020-15258 Insecure use of shell.openExternal in Wire

In Wire before 3.20.x, shell.openExternal was used without checking the URL. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code on the victims machine by sending messages containing links with arbitrary protocols. The victim has to interact with the link and sees the URL that is opened. The...

CVE-2020-15867

The git hook feature in Gogs 0.5.5 through 0.12.2 allows for authenticated remote code execution. There can be a privilege escalation if access to this hook feature is granted to a user who does not have administrative privileges. NOTE: because this is mentioned in the documentation but not in th...

Design/Logic Flaw

In the @actions/core npm module before version 1.2.6,addPath and exportVariable functions communicate with the Actions Runner over stdout by generating a string in a specific format. Workflows that log untrusted data to stdout may invoke these commands, resulting in the path or environment...