HookSpoofer A Novel Infostealer with Advanced Capabilities

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary North Korea-linked hacking group Reaper has recently been observed engaging in surveillance of North Korean defectors. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow HiveForce Labs on LinkedIn...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: buildah (CVE-2022-27651)

The version of buildah installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2022-27651 advisory. - A flaw was found in buildah where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions. A...

CLSA-2023-1678395968 systemd: Fix of CVE-2022-4415

CVE-2022-4415: coredump: do not allow user to access coredumps with changed uid/gid/capabilities...

Prometei botnet improves modules and exhibits new capabilities in recent updates

Prometei botnet continued its activity since Cisco Talos first reported about it in 2020. Since November 2022, we have observed Prometei improving the infrastructure components and capabilities. More specifically, the botnet operators updated certain submodules of the execution chain to automate...

Qakbot Evolves to OneNote Malware Distribution

Qakbot Evolves to OneNote Malware Distribution By Pham Duy Phuc, John Fokker J.E. and Alejandro Houspanossian · March 07, 2023 This blog was also written by Raghav Kapoor and Mathanraj Thangaraju Qakbot aka QBot, QuakBot, and Pinkslipbot is a sophisticated piece of malware that has been active...

SysUpdate Malware Strikes Again with Linux Version and New Evasion Tactics

The threat actor known as Lucky Mouse has developed a Linux version of a malware toolkit called SysUpdate, expanding on its ability to target devices running the operating system. The oldest version of the updated artifact dates back to July 2022, with the malware incorporating new features...

K54635192: Linux kernel overlayfs vulnerability CVE-2021-3493

Security Advisory Description The overlayfs implementation in the linux kernel did not properly validate with respect to user namespaces the setting of file capabilities on files in an underlying file system. Due to the combination of unprivileged user namespaces along with a patch carried in the...

K15677: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2014-4014

Security Advisory Description The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the...

Memory corruption

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107, function pcivtsockproctx in virtio-sock can lead to to uninitialized memory use. In this situation, there is a check for the return value to be less or equal to VTSOCKMAXSEGS, but that check is...

SUSE CVE-2010-2198

lib/fsm.c in RPM 4.8.0 and earlier does not properly reset the metadata of an executable file during replacement of the file in an RPM package upgrade or deletion of the file in an RPM package removal, which might allow local users to gain privileges or bypass intended access restrictions by...

SUSE CVE-2012-2123

The capbprmsetcreds function in security/commoncap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.3 does not properly handle the use of file system capabilities aka fcaps for implementing a privileged executable file, which allows local users to bypass intended personality restrictions via a crafted applicatio...

SUSE CVE-2013-1958

The scmcheckcreds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly enforce capability requirements for controlling the PID value associated with a UNIX domain socket, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the time interval durin...

SUSE CVE-2014-4014

The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with grou...

SUSE CVE-2014-8116

The ELF parser readelf.c in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or crash via a large number of 1 program or 2 section headers or 3 invalid capabilities...

SUSE CVE-2016-8867

Docker Engine 1.12.2 enabled ambient capabilities with misconfigured capability policies. This allowed malicious images to bypass user permissions to access files within the container filesystem or mounted volumes...

SUSE CVE-2018-5381

The Quagga BGP daemon bgpd prior to version 1.2.3 has a bug in its parsing of "Capabilities" in BGP OPEN messages, in the bgppacket.c:bgpcapabilitymsgparse function. The parser can enter an infinite loop on invalid capabilities if a Multi-Protocol capability does not have a recognized AFI/SAFI,...

SUSE CVE-2018-10856

It has been discovered that podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container...

SUSE CVE-2018-1000400

Kubernetes CRI-O version prior to 1.9 contains a Privilege Context Switching Error CWE-270 vulnerability in the handling of ambient capabilities that can result in containers running with elevated privileges, allowing users abilities they should not have. This attack appears to be exploitable via...

SUSE CVE-2021-3847

An unauthorized access to the execution of the setuid file with capabilities flaw in the Linux kernel OverlayFS subsystem was found in the way user copying a capable file from a nosuid mount into another mount. A local user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system...

SUSE CVE-2022-24769

Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable and accelerate software containerization. A bug was found in Moby Docker Engine prior to version 20.10.14 where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, creating an atypical Linux...