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IT threat evolution Q2 2024
Targeted attacks XZ backdoor: a supply chain attack in the making On March 29, a message on the Openwall oss-security mailing list announced the discovery of a backdoor in XZ, a compression utility included in many popular Linux distributions. The backdoored library is used by the OpenSSH server...
APT trends report Q2 2024
For over six years now, Kasperskys Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT has been sharing quarterly updates on advanced persistent threats APTs. These summaries draw on our threat intelligence research, offering a representative overview of what weve published and discussed in more detail in ou...
Photon OS 3.0: Xz PHSA-2022-3.0-0382
An update of the xz package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2022-3.0-0382. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid204617...
Photon OS 4.0: Xz PHSA-2022-4.0-0172
An update of the xz package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2022-4.0-0172. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid203373...
Exploit for Embedded Malicious Code in Tukaani Xz
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Exploit for Embedded Malicious Code in Tukaani Xz
CVE-2024-3094 Basic POC to test CVE-2024-3094 vulnerability in...
RHEL 6 : xz (Unpatched Vulnerability)
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - xzgrep: incorrect parsing of filenames containing a semicolon CVE-2015-4035 Note that Nessus has not tested for thi...
RHEL 5 : xz (Unpatched Vulnerability)
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - xzgrep: incorrect parsing of filenames containing a semicolon CVE-2015-4035 Note that Nessus has not tested for thi...
The Bug Report - April 2024 Edition
The Bug Report - April 2024 Edition By Jonathan Omakun and Tobi Olawale· April 29, 2024 Why am I here? Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the digital waters, out pops another series of rogue waves in the form of CVEs! It's like that beach vacation you planned to get away from it al...
Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident
High-end APT groups perform highly interesting social engineering campaigns in order to penetrate well-protected targets. For example, carefully constructed forum responses on precision targeted accounts and follow-up "out-of-band" interactions regarding underground rail system simulator software...
Advisory ROSA-SA-2024-2409
Software: xz 5.2.2 OS: rosa-server79 packageevrstring: xz-5.2.2.2-2 CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3094 BDU-ID: 2024-02406 CVE-Crit: CRITICAL. CVE-DESC.: Malicious code was discovered in xz source archives starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extracts...
Advisory ROSA-SA-2024-2408
Software: xz 5.2.4 OS: ROSA Virtualization 2.1 packageevrstring: xz-5.2.4-1 CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3094 BDU-ID: 2024-02406 CVE-Crit: CRITICAL. CVE-DESC.: Malicious code was discovered in xz source archives starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process...
Advisory ROSA-SA-2024-2407
software: xz 5.2.9 AXIS: ROSA-CHROME packageevrstring: xz-5.2.9-1 CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3094 BDU-ID: 2024-02406 CVE-Crit: CRITICAL. CVE-DESC.: Malicious code was discovered in the xz source archives starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations, the liblzma build process extrac...
java-21-openjdk security update
1:21.0.3.0.9-1.0.1 - Add Oracle vendor bug URL Orabug: 34340155 1:21.0.3.0.9-1 - Update to jdk-21.0.3+9 GA - Update release notes to 21.0.3+9 - Switch to GA mode. - Sync the copy of the portable specfile with the latest update - This tarball is embargoed until 2024-04-16 @ 1pm PT. - Resolves:...
Elastic Security Statement for CVE-2024-3094, xz versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
Elastic Products are not affected by this issue. On March 29th, 2024, Elastic became aware of the malicious code planted in the xz package. Elastic has performed an investigation to identify any Elastic Products which may be impacted by this issue and we have concluded that no Elastic products us...
OpenJS Foundation Targeted in Potential JavaScript Project Takeover Attempt
Security researchers have uncovered a "credible" takeover attempt targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident aimed at the open-source XZ Utils project. "The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails...
Popular Rust Crate liblzma-sys Compromised with XZ Utils Backdoor Files
"Test files" associated with the XZ Utils backdoor have made their way to a Rust crate known as liblzma-sys, new findings from Phylum reveal. liblzma-sys, which has been downloaded over 21,000 times to date, provides Rust developers with bindings to the liblzma implementation, an underlying libra...
XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
On March 29, 2024, a single message on the Openwall OSS-security mailing list marked an important discovery for the information security, open source and Linux communities: the discovery of a malicious backdoor in XZ. XZ is a compression utility integrated into many popular distributions of Linux...
Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
Last week, the Internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention--but it should. There’s an important moral to the story of the attack and its discovery: The...