Intel In Security Hot Seat Over Reported CPU Design Flaw

UPDATE Intel is grappling with what many experts are describing as a processor design flaw impacting CPUs used in Linux, Windows and some macOS systems. The reported flaw is tied to Intel’s kernel virtual memory system that could allow an attacker to access kernel-protected data such as passwords...

Security Notice: CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA's response to CPU speculative side channel vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, and CVE-2017-5754 January 3, 2018 This notice is in response to Google Project Zero's publication of novel information disclosure attacks that combine CPU speculative execution with known side channels...

Multiple CPU Hardware CVE-2017-5754 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Multiple CPU Hardware are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. Technologies Affected Apple Mac Os X 10.11.6 Apple iOS 11.2 Apple macOS 10.12.6 Apple macOS 10.13.2 Apple tvOS...

Multiple Vmware Product Stack Overflow Vulnerabilities

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion are all products of VMware, Inc. VMware ESXi is a server virtualization platform that can be installed directly on physical servers; VMware Workstation is a suite of virtual machine software; and Fusion is a suite of virtual machine software that is designed t...

Cloud Security Improves, But Much Work Still Remains to Be Done

As cloud computing adoption accelerates among businesses, InfoSec teams are struggling to fully protect cloud workloads due to a lack of visibility into these environments, and to hackers’ increasingly effective attacks. That’s the main finding from SANS Institute’s “Cloud Security: Defense in...

DevOps in the Cloud: How Data Masking Helps Speed Development, Securely

Many articles have discussed the benefits of DevOps in the cloud. For example, the centralization of cloud computing provides DevOps automation with a standard platform for testing and development; the tight integration between DevOps tools and cloud platforms lowers the cost associated with...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG-2 Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG-2 are products of Red Hat, Inc. and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 are operating systems and Red Hat Enterprise MRG-2 is an IT infrastructure platform for integrated high performance computing HPC. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 are...

Debian DSA-4056-1 : nova - security update

George Shuklin from servers.com discovered that Nova, a cloud computing fabric controller, did not correctly enforce its image- or hosts-filters. This allowed an authenticated user to bypass those filters by simply rebuilding an instance. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4056-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Cisco UCS Central Software Session Fixation Vulnerability

Cisco UCS Central Software is the United States Cisco Cisco company's set of global Cisco UCS Unified Computing System resources for server management and monitoring solutions. A session fixation vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface in Cisco UCS Central Software. A remote...

Input validation

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read the contents of arbitrary files. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation for a specific CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing a crafted...

Command injection

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to perform this exploit. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of command...

CVE-2017-12341

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to perform this exploit. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation during the...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to bypass signature verification when loading a software image. The vulnerability is due to insufficient NX-OS signature verification for software images. An authenticated, local attacker could exploit thi...

CVE-2017-12335

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of command arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting crafted command...

Command injection

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to perform this exploit. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation during the...

CVE-2017-12338

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read the contents of arbitrary files. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation for a specific CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by issuing a crafted...

CVE-2017-12332

A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS System Software patch installation could allow an authenticated, local attacker to write a file to arbitrary locations. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions in the patch installation process. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by installin...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to bypass signature verification when loading a software patch. The vulnerability is due to insufficient NX-OS signature verification for software patches. An authenticated, local attacker could exploit th...