A week in security (July 22 – 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered an extensive analysis into the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 investigation, updated users on the newest feature set to AdwCleaner 7.4.0 it now detects pre-installed software, and provided a deep dive into Phobos ransomware. We also broke down the latest...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13057

An issue was discovered in the server in OpenLDAP before 2.4.48. When the server administrator delegates rootDN database admin privileges for certain databases but wants to maintain isolation e.g., for multi-tenant deployments, slapd does not properly stop a rootDN from requesting authorization a...

CVE-2019-13057

An issue was discovered in the server in OpenLDAP before 2.4.48. When the server administrator delegates rootDN database admin privileges for certain databases but wants to maintain isolation e.g., for multi-tenant deployments, slapd does not properly stop a rootDN from requesting authorization a...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-13057

An issue was discovered in the server in OpenLDAP before 2.4.48. When the server administrator delegates rootDN database admin privileges for certain databases but wants to maintain isolation e.g., for multi-tenant deployments, slapd does not properly stop a rootDN from requesting authorization a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: libldb-1.4.7-1.fc29

An extensible library that implements an LDAP like API to access remote LDAP servers, or use local tdb databases...

IBM Patches Critical, High-Severity Flaws in Spectrum Protect

IBM has disclosed critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in Spectrum Protect, Big Blue’s security tool under the umbrella of its Spectrum data storage software branding. The most severe of these flaws could cause a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems. Overall, IBM...

CVE-2019-4140

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 could allow a local user to replace existing databases by restoring old data. IBM X-Force ID: 158336...

PT-2019-16921 · Ibm · Ibm Spectrum Protect +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server IBM Spectrum Protect versions 7.1 through 8.1 Description: The issue allows a local user to replace existing databases by restoring old data. Recommendations: For versions 7.1 through 8.1, update to a version...

MongoDB Leak Exposed Millions of Medical Insurance Records

An online database belonging to insurance marketing website MedicareSupplement.com was found exposing more than 5 million records with personal information. MedicareSupplement.com is a U.S.-based marketing site that allows users to find supplemental medical insurance available in their area...

WhatBreach - OSINT Tool To Find Breached Emails And Databases

WhatBreach is a tool to search for breached emails and their corresponding database. It takes either a single email or a list of emails and searches them leveraging haveibeenpwned.com's API, from there if there are any breaches it will search for the query link on Dehashed pertaining to the...

USN-4019-2: SQLite vulnerabilities

USN-4019-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in sqlite3. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain SQL files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary cod...

PHDays 9: new methods of Vulnerability Prioritization in Vulnerability Management products

On May 21, I spoke at the PHDays 9 conference. I talked about new methods of Vulnerability Prioritization in the products of Vulnerability Management vendors. During my 15 minutes time slot I defined the problems that this new technology has to solve, showed why these problems could NOT be solved...

Password Cracker: Databases

This module uses John the Ripper or Hashcat to identify weak passwords that have been acquired from the mssqlhashdump, mysqlhashdump, postgreshashdump, or oraclehashdump modules. Passwords that have been successfully cracked are then saved as proper credentials. Due to the complexity of some of t...

2.3B Files Exposed in a Year: A New Record for Misconfigs

The last 12 months has seen the exposure of a record 2.3 billion files across cloud databases and online shares, according to an analysis released on Thursday. A report from Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team, Too Much Information: The Sequel, assessed the scale of inadvertent global data...

This Week in Security News: Tax Scams and Spam Emails

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn how criminals can use tax deadlines for social engineering schemes and redirection URLs in spam emails to sidestep spam filters. Read...

Security update for sqlite3 (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for sqlite3 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1426-1 Rating: moderate References: 1085790 1132045 Cross-References: CVE-2017-10989 CVE-2018-8740 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available. Description:...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : sqlite3 (SUSE-SU-2019:1208-1)

This update for sqlite3 fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2018-8740: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference related to corrupted databases schemas bsc1085790. CVE-2017-10989: Fixed a heap-based buffer over-read in getNodeSize bsc1132045. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Mitsubishi QJ71MES96N Communications Adapter Detection

Binary data 752161.prm...

Moderate: python36:3.6 security update

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems. SQLAlchemy is an...

python36:3.6 security update

An update is available for python-docutils, python-pygments, python-PyMySQL, python-docs, python36, python-nose. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list...