Cyber Security Week in Review (March 15)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week The U.S. warned Germany that...

Design/Logic Flaw

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20781

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext...

CVE-2018-20781

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext...

Attackers Can Track Kids' Locations via Connected Watches

Despite ongoing warnings about connected watches and toys endangering kids’ privacy and potentially their physical safety, makers of these Internet of Things gadgets continue to turn out products that do just that. The latest concern is a gamut of kids’ GPS-tracking watches, which were found to b...

Security update for sssd (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for sssd Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0051-1 Rating: moderate References: 1010700 1072728 1080156 1087320 1098377 1101877 1110299 Cross-References: CVE-2018-10852 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 An update that solves one vulnerability and has 6...

PHP 7.2.x < 7.2.4 Dumpable FPM Child Processes

According to its banner, the version of PHP running on the remote web server is 7.2.x prior to 7.2.4. It is, therefore, affected by opcache access controls bypass via dumpable FPM child processes. Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php5 (SUSE-SU-2018:1291-1)

This update for php5 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-10545: Fix access controls in FPM child processes bsc1091367. - CVE-2018-10547: Fix Reflected XSS on the PHAR 403 and 404 error pages bsc1091362. - CVE-2018-10546: Fix an infinite loop exists in ext/iconv/iconv.c...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php7 (SUSE-SU-2018:1176-1)

This update for php7 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-10545: Fix access controls in FPM child processes bsc1091367. - CVE-2018-10547: Fix Reflected XSS on the PHAR 403 and 404 error pages bsc1091362. - CVE-2018-10546: Fix an infinite loop exists in ext/iconv/iconv.c...

WordPress Total-Child-Theme-Master Themes Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. An arbitrary file download vulnerability exists in WordPress Total-Child-Theme-Master Themes. An attacker can exploit the...

WordPress Total-Child-Theme-Master 1.0 Arbitrary File Disclosure

Exploit Title : WordPress Total-Child-Theme-Master Themes 1.0 Arbitrary File Download Author Discovered By : KingSkrupellos from Cyberizm Digital Security Army Date : 08/12/2018 Vendor Homepage : wordpress.org wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/child-theme/ Software Download Link :...

WordPress Jupiter Child 1.0 Database Disclosure

Exploit Title : WordPress Jupiter Child Themes 1.0 Database Backup Disclosure Author Discovered By : KingSkrupellos from Cyberizm Digital Security Army Date : 08/12/2018 Vendor Homepage : themeforest.net/user/artbees + themes.artbees.net/docs/installing-theme-and-child-theme/ Software Download Li...

BBC: MiSafes’ child-tracking smartwatches are ‘easy to hack’

Following our research on the MiSafes kids tracking watch we spoke to the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones and Leo Kelion about the risks, and what consumers can do. We found that the devices didn't encrypt user data, and that each child's account wasn't secured. The result is that children's movements...

Worst-Case Thinking Breeds Fear and Irrationality

Here's a crazy story from the UK. Basically, someone sees a man and a little girl leaving a shopping center. Instead of thinking "it must be a father and daughter, which happens millions of times a day and is perfectly normal," he thinks "this is obviously a case of child abduction and I must ale...

Shoddy security of popular smartwatch lets hackers access your child’s location

By Waqas Smartwatches are generally considered safe to keep track of your kids when they are outside the home. However, there is a scary new revelation about this seemingly reliable gadget that it is possible to hack GPS-enabled smartwatches. Probably a majority of children wear smartwatches thes...

Consumer Advice: Kids GPS tracker watch security

Parents are advised to rethink using GPS tracking watches for their children as a result of serious security concerns. Tracker watches can be worn by children and report their position to their parents via a mobile app. They are designed to increase child safety: you always know where your child...

Tracking and snooping on a million kids

How I found vulnerabilities that could jeopardise child safety. How it started A friend recently showed me a tracker watch that he’d purchased for his young son for less than £10. It offered useful functionality such as two-way calling using a SIM and cellular connection. The accompanying app...

(Pwn2Own) Apple macOS task_set_special_port Port Overwrite Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of Apple macOS. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of Mach...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2018:2322-2)

This update for MozillaFirefox to version ESR 52.9 fixes the following issues : CVE-2018-5188: Various memory safety bugs bsc1098998 CVE-2018-12368: No warning when opening executable SettingContent-ms files CVE-2018-12366: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations CVE-2018-12365:...

CVE-2018-12365

A compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. This could result in exposure of private local files. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60, Thunderbird 52.9, Firefox ESR 60.1, Firefox...