Critical Firefox Bugs Allow Arbitrary Code-Execution

Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Mozilla Firefox web browser and Firefox Extended Support Release ESR, and a high-severity bug has been reported for Google Chrome, all of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. The bugs were announced as part of larger updates to Chrom...

CVE-2019-11764

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefo...

SUSE-SU-2019:2738-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-14835: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2710-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2017-18595: A double free may be caused by the function allocatetracebuffer in the file kernel/trace/trace.c bnc1149555. CVE-2019-14821: An out-of-bounds acce...

Dangerous Kubernetes Bugs Allow Authentication Bypass, DoS

A pair of bugs in the Kubernetes open-source cloud container software can be “highly dangerous” under some Kubernetes configurations, according to researchers. The flaws, CVE-2019-16276 and CVE-2019-11253, have been patched in Kubernetes builds 1.14.8, 1.15.5 and 1.16.2. Exploitation of the first...

CVE-2019-17673

WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to poisoning of the cache of JSON GET requests because certain requests lack a Vary: Origin header...

CVE-2019-2924

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL component: Server: Security: Encryption. Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.45 and prior and 5.7.27 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to...

CVE-2019-2920

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL component: Connector/ODBC. Supported versions that are affected are 5.3.13 and prior and 8.0.17 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL...

An intern's experience with Rust

Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, I worked on the safe systems programming languages SSPL team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security critical...

An intern's experience with Rust

Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, I worked on the safe systems programming languages SSPL team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security critical...

Podman / Varlink Remote Code Execution

!/usr/bin/python -- coding: UTF-8 -- pickletime.py Podman + Varlink Insecure Config Remote Exploit Jeremy Brown jbrown3264/gmail @ Oct 2019 ------- Details ------- Podman is container engine / platform similar to Docker supported by RedHat and Fedora with Varlink being a protocol to exchange...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0180)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has thunderbird packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 67 and Firefox ESR 60.7. Some of these bugs showed...

Podman Varlink 1.5.1 - Remote Code Execution

Podman Varlink 1.5.1 - Remote Code Execution Exploit Title: Podman & Varlink 1.5.1 - Remote Code Execution Exploit Author: Jeremy Brown Date: 2019-10-15 Vendor Homepage: https://podman.io/ Software Link: dnf install podman or https://github.com/containers/libpod/releases Version: 1.5.1 Tested on:...

Podman & Varlink 1.5.1 - Remote Code Execution Exploit

Exploit Title: Podman & Varlink 1.5.1 - Remote Code Execution Exploit Author: Jeremy Brown Date: 2019-10-15 Vendor Homepage: https://podman.io/ Software Link: dnf install podman or https://github.com/containers/libpod/releases Version: 1.5.1 Tested on: Fedora Server 30 !/usr/bin/python -- coding:...

SUSE-SU-2019:2651-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 for Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-18551: An issue was discovered in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c. There was an out of bounds write in the function i2csmbusxferemulated bnc1146163. ...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package thunderbird version 68.1.2-alt1

Oct. 13, 2019 Andrey Cherepanov 68.1.2-alt1 - New version 68.1.2. - Fixed: + CVE-2019-11739 Covert Content Attack on S/MIME encryption using a crafted multipart/alternative message + CVE-2019-11746 Use-after-free while manipulating video + CVE-2019-11744 XSS by breaking out of title and textarea...

Apple Tackles Over a Dozen Bugs in its Catalina 10.15 Update

Apple wasted little time snuffing out bugs in its macOS Catalina operating system. On Tuesday, Apple rolled out 16 patches addressing a wide range of Catalina bugs in components such as CoreAudio, IOGraphics and WebKit. The security fixes are exclusively for macOS 10.15; so pre-Catalina releases ...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2019:2260-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2019-2248)

This update for MozillaThunderbird to version 68.1.1 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-11709: Fixed several memory safety bugs. bsc1140868 - CVE-2019-11710: Fixed several memory safety bugs. bsc1140868 - CVE-2019-11711: Fixed a script injection within domain through inner window reuse...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2019-2249)

This update for MozillaThunderbird to version 68.1.1 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-11709: Fixed several memory safety bugs. bsc1140868 - CVE-2019-11710: Fixed several memory safety bugs. bsc1140868 - CVE-2019-11711: Fixed a script injection within domain through inner window reuse...