Malicious Docker Containers Earn Cryptomining Criminals $90K

UPDATE Seventeen malicious Docker containers earned cryptomining criminals $90,000 in 30 days in what could be a harbinger of things to come. The figure may seem tame compared to some of the larger paydays that cryptojackers have earned. But, researchers at Kromtech Security Center warn container...

Securing Containers at Scale: Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS and Deep Security Smart Check

Containers present a new opportunity for teams. An opportunity to deploy faster, more consistently, and with a simplicity rarely seen. But in order to make that happen a lot of infrastructure needs to be setup ahead of time. A cluster of hosts for the container runtime, an orchestration layer,...

Monero: Constant-time comparison is not always implemented; critical areas are vulnerable to key-timing attacks

In my most superficial of reviews, constant-time comparison appears to not be globally implemented at a glance, only implemented within the ref10 implementation. With that said, the following areas either appear to be vulnerable, or are potentially vulnerable, to key-timing attacks: 1. Containers...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3664-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

USN-3664-2: Apport vulnerability

USN-3664-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apport. Sander Bos reported that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS was also vulnerable to this issue, but was incorrectly omitted from the previous updates. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Sander Bos discovered that...

CVE-2018-6552

CVE-2018-6552 affects the Ubuntu Apport component. The vulnerability arises when Apport handles crashes originating from a PID namespace; if /proc// is missing, the code may forward the crash using the container’s pid in the global namespace. This can allow a local attacker to cause a denial of s...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Apport vulnerability (USN-3664-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3664-1 advisory. Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled core dumps when certain files are missing from /proc. A local attacker could possibly use this...

CVE-2018-6552

Apport does not properly handle crashes originating from a PID namespace allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion, possibly gain root privileges, or escape from containers. The issamens function...

USN-3664-1: Apport vulnerability

Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled core dumps when certain files are missing from /proc. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, gain root privileges, or escape from containers...

Open Source Deception Framework: DejaVU

Deception techniques if deployed well can be very effective for organizations to improve network defense and can be a useful arsenal for blue teams to detect attacks at very early stage of cyber kill chain. But the challenge we have seen is deploying, managing and administering decoys across larg...

Important kernel security update: CVE-2018-3639; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab130.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new kernel 2.6.32-042stab130.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.30.1.el6. The new kernel introduces security and stability fixes. Vulnerability id: CVE-2018-3639 An...

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...

Tools update: Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 24 (6.0.12-3704)

This update provides new packages with a stability fix for Virtuozzo 6.0. Vulnerability id: PSBM-84570 After upgrading guest OS to CentOS 7.5, ploop-based containers with enabled second-level quotas could fail to start due to the failure of the 'quotacheck' binary from the updated 'quota' package...

CVE-2018-0268

A vulnerability in the container management subsystem of Cisco Digital Network Architecture DNA Center could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain elevated privileges. This vulnerability is due to an insecure default configuration of the Kubernetes container...

Important kernel security update: CVE-2017-5754 and other; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab129.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab129.1 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6. The new kernel inherits a number of security fixes from RHEL and also introduces internal security an...

Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Critical Flaw In Windows Containers

Just a few days prior to its monthly patch release, Microsoft released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in the Windows Host Compute Service Shim hcsshim library that could allow remote attackers to run malicious code on Windows computers. Windows Host Compute Service Shim hcsshim i...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1368-1] libvorbis security update

Package : libvorbis Version : 1.3.2-1.3+deb7u1 CVE ID : CVE-2017-11333 CVE-2017-14632 CVE-2017-14633 CVE-2018-5146 Serious vulnerabilities were found in the libvorbis library, commonly used to encode and decode audio in OGG containers. 2017-14633 In Xiph.Org libvorbis 1.3.5, an out-of-bounds arra...

The vulnerability of the Apport software for generating and sending error reports on the Ubuntu operating system allows a perpetrator to trigger a service failure, exit from LXC, or gain root privileges.

The vulnerability of the Apport software for generating and sending error reports on the Ubuntu operating system is related to an uncontrolled resource consumption. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a hacker to cause service failures, trigger exits from LXC Linux Containers, or gain root...

The vulnerability of the vSphere Integrated Containers software platform and the vRealize Automation automation tool lies in the ability to execute arbitrary code due to a memory corruption issue. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the vSphere Integrated Containers software platform and the vRealize Automation automation tool exists due to the restoration of a questionable data structure in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker, operating remotely, to execute arbitrary code by sending...

Kernel security update: CVE-2017-18017 and other; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab128.2 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab128.2 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6. This kernel was recompiled by the updated gcc with retpolines support. Retpolines are a technique use...