New National Vulnerability Database visualizations and feeds

Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST introduced a new version of National Vulnerability Database NVD website.  I will not say that I liked this redesign: IMHO, old website with US flag was much prettier and useful: But the very fact that the site is developing, I...

iOS 11 Update includes Patches for Eight Vulnerabilities

iOS 11 is out today and along with a new look and feel on the iPad especially comes a handful of patches for the Apple mobile OS. Apple addressed eight CVEs in today’s iOS update, and 15 overall as it also updated Safari and the Xcode development framework. Two Webkit bugs, CVE-2017-7106 and...

Fedora 26 : kernel (2017-6764d16965)

The 4.12.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

Fedora 25 : 2:freerdp / remmina (2017-ed31e1f941)

Update to latest snapshot that contains fixes for the latest Talos discovered CVEs. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible witho...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for RHEV 4.X RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Fedora 26 : 2:freerdp / remmina (2017-4bc09c2364)

Update to latest snapshot that contains fixes for the latest Talos discovered CVEs. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible witho...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 10, 2017

Before the world of laptops, tablets and smart phones, some of us had to use paper-based solutions to keep track of our calendars and to-do lists. I used a Franklin Planner, where I kept track of my calendar as well as my never-ending to-do list. The Franklin Planner used the “ABC” system to help...

Fedora 25 : wireshark (2017-f0509fbf37)

Rebase to the newest upstream release. This release contains only bug fixes, most notably fixes for many CVEs. There are no new features. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to...

Fedora 24 : 3:mariadb (2017-8425f676f2)

Rebase to 10.1.24 Plugin oqgraph enabled Plugin jemalloc enabled Sphinx engine enabled Build dependecies Bison and Libarchive added, others corrected Disabling Mroonga engine for i686 architecture, as it is not supported by MariaDB Removed patches: fixed by upstream Patch5:...

Vulnerability Management Tips for the Shadow Brokers Leaked Exploits

Rebekah Brown and the Rapid7 team have delivered a spot-on breakdown of the recent Shadow Brokers exploit and tool release. Before you read any further, if you havent done so already, please read her post. Its probably not the only post youve read on this topic, but it is cogent, well-constructed...

SUSE-SU-2017:1384-1 Security update for java-1_7_0-ibm

This update for java-170-ibm fixes the following issues: Version update to 7.0-10.5 bsc1038505 - CVE-2016-9840: zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c - CVE-2016-9841: zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inffast.c - CVE-2016-9842: zlib: Undefined left shift of negative number ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mariadb (SUSE-SU-2017:1311-1)

This update for mariadb fixes the following issues : - update to MariaDB 10.0.30 GA - notable changes : - XtraDB updated to 5.6.35-80.0 - TokuDB updated to 5.6.35-80.0 - PCRE updated to 8.40 - MDEV-11027: better InnoDB crash recovery progress reporting - MDEV-11520: improvements to how InnoDB dat...

Veritas Netbackup 8.0 File Write / Remote Code Execution / Bypass

Veritas Netbackup 8.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities ------------------------------------------------- Introduction ============ Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Veritas Netbackup https://www.veritas.com/product/backup-and-recovery/netbackup-8. The vulnerabilities were discovered during a...

Fedora 25 : libarchive (2017-55a8f10223)

fix two minor CVEs by backporting upstream commits Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 17, 2017

I’ve never been one to adopt the latest fashion trends, aside from what I wore growing up in the 1980s. I wore shoulder pads, blue eyeliner, designer jeans, and even parachute pants. While I continue to rock my 80s hair to this day, other trends I thought were long gone are making a comeback...

Microsoft Patches Three Vulnerabilities Under Attack

Microsoft today patched a zero-day Word vulnerability that has been publicly attacked along with deploying fixes for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Windows 10. In all, nine Microsoft products received updates totaling 45 unique CVEs. Three of the vulnerabilities among Tuesday’s updates,...

Fedora 24 : w3m (2017-783e8fa63e)

Security fix for CVE-2016-9422, CVE-2016-9423, CVE-2016-9424, CVE-2016-9425, CVE-2016-9428, CVE-2016-9426, CVE-2016-9429, CVE-2016-9430, CVE-2016-9431, CVE-2016-9432, CVE-2016-9433, CVE-2016-9434, CVE-2016-9435, CVE-2016-9436, CVE-2016-9437, CVE-2016-9438, CVE-2016-9439, CVE-2016-9440,...

Fedora 24 : 2:qemu (2017-62ac1230f7)

CVE-2017-5525: audio: memory leakage in ac97 bz 1414110 - CVE-2017-5526: audio: memory leakage in es1370 bz 1414210 - CVE-2016-10155 watchdog: memory leakage in i6300esb bz 1415200 - CVE-2017-5552: virtio-gpu-3d: memory leakage bz 1415283 - CVE-2017-5667: sd: sdhci OOB access during multi block...

CVE-2017-0112

Uniscribe in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web site, aka "Uniscribe Information Disclosure Vulnerability." CVE-2017-0085, CVE-2017-0091, CVE-2017-0092,...

March Android Security Update Breaks SafetyNet, Android Pay

An issue with the March Android over-the-air security update has been resolved after Nexus 6 users complained that Android Pay no longer worked after installation of the update. The update in fact broke Android’s SafetyNet API which provides a constant check on device integrity, blocking access t...