IBM Spectrum Scale Denial of Service Vulnerability

IBM Spectrum Scale is a scalable data and file management solution from IBM USA based on IBM GPFS, an enterprise file management system optimized for petabyte-scale storage management. The product supports helping clients reduce storage costs while improving security and management efficiency in...

Critical PPP Daemon Flaw Opens Most Linux Systems to Remote Hackers

The US-CERT today issued advisory warning users of a new dangerous 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP daemon pppd software that comes installed on almost all Linux based operating systems, as well as powers the firmware of many other networking devices. The affected...

Critical PPP Daemon Flaw Opens Most Linux Systems to Remote Hackers

The US-CERT today issued advisory warning users of a new dangerous 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP daemon pppd software that comes installed on almost all Linux based operating systems, as well as powers the firmware of many other networking devices. The affected...

Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon Vulnerability

The CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC has released information on a vulnerability affecting Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon versions 2.4.2 through 2.4.8. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon is used to establish...

ALSA-2020:0633 Important: ppp security update

The ppp packages contain the Point-to-Point Protocol PPP daemon and documentation for PPP support. The PPP protocol provides a method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. PPP is usually used to dial in to an Internet Service Provider ISP or other organization over a modem...

systemd: line splitting via fgets() allows for state injection during daemon-reexec

It was discovered that systemd is vulnerable to a state injection attack when deserializing the state of a service. Properties longer than LINEMAX are not correctly parsed and an attacker may abuse this flaw in particularly configured services to inject, change, or corrupt the service state...

Debian DSA-4632-1 : ppp - security update

Ilja Van Sprundel reported a logic flaw in the Extensible Authentication Protocol EAP packet parser in the Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon pppd. An unauthenticated attacker can take advantage of this flaw to trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, leading to denial of service pppd daemon crash. C...

Security Advisory 2020-02-21-1 - ppp buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-8597)

DESCRIPTION A remotely exploitable vulnerability was found in Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon pppd, which has a significant potential impact due to the possibility of remote code execution prior to authentication. OpenWrt by default enables the FORTIFYSOURCE=1 compiler macro which introduces...

Fedora: Security Advisory for systemd (FEDORA-2020-f8e267d6d0)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in Apache Storm, which is shipped with IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition (CVE-2019-0202)

Summary Apache Storm is shipped with IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition version 4.2. Information about a security vulnerability affecting Apache Storm has been published here. Vulnerability Details CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0202 Description: Apache Storm could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitiv...

Race condition

A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability exists in Sprite Software Spritebud 1.3.24 and 1.3.28 and Backup 2.5.4105 and 2.5.4108 on LG Android smartphones due to a race condition in the spritebud daemon, which could let a local malicious user obtain root privileges...

CVE-2013-3685

CVE-2013-3685 describes a local privilege-escalation via a race condition in Sprite Software’s spritebud daemon (on LG Android smartphones) affecting Spritebud 1.3.24/1.3.28 and Backup 2.5.4105/2.5.4108. The race condition could allow a local attacker to obtain root privileges. Publicly provided ...

Mini-SNMPD Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

Mini-SNMPD is a lightweight implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP server. An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the way Mini-SNMPD 1.4 parses incoming SNMP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted packets to cause sensitive...

The vulnerability of the Junos OS’ Routing Protocol Daemon (RPD) allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Junos OS’ Routing Protocol Daemon RPD is related to an uncontrolled consumption of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service interruptions remotely...

The vulnerability of the Junos Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Daemon (JDHCPD) in the operating system allows a attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

The vulnerability of the Junos Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Daemon JDHCPD operating system is related to the failure to eliminate special elements used in the operating system’s commands. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands with root...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-2097-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

ALPINE-CVE-2020-8597

eap.c in pppd in ppp 2.4.2 through 2.4.8 has an rhostname buffer overflow in the eaprequest and eapresponse functions...

CVE-2020-8597

eap.c in pppd in ppp 2.4.2 through 2.4.8 has an rhostname buffer overflow in the eaprequest and eapresponse functions...

CVE-2020-8516

The daemon in Tor through 0.4.1.8 and 0.4.2.x through 0.4.2.6 does not verify that a rendezvous node is known before attempting to connect to it, which might make it easier for remote attackers to discover circuit information. NOTE: The network team of Tor claims this is an intended behavior and...

CVE-2020-8516

The daemon in Tor through 0.4.1.8 and 0.4.2.x through 0.4.2.6 does not verify that a rendezvous node is known before attempting to connect to it, which might make it easier for remote attackers to discover circuit information. NOTE: The network team of Tor claims this is an intended behavior and...