Memcached - A Story of Failed Patching & Vulnerable Servers

This blog authored by Aleksandar Nikolich and David Maynor with contributions from Nick BiasiniMemcached - Not secure, Not Patched Fast Enough Recently high profile vulnerabilities in systems were used to unleash several global ransomware attacks that greatly impacted organizations. These types o...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3842-1 (tomcat7 - security update)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in tomcat7, a servlet and JSP engine. CVE-2017-5647 Pipelined requests were processed incorrectly, which could result in some responses appearing to be sent for the wrong request. CVE-2017-5648 Some application listeners calls were issued against the wrong...

Directory traversal

The postinst script in the tomcat6 package before 6.0.45+dfsg-1deb7u4 on Debian wheezy, before 6.0.35-1ubuntu3.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS; the tomcat7 package before 7.0.28-4+deb7u8 on Debian wheezy, before 7.0.56-3+deb8u6 on Debian jessie, before 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.8 on Ubuntu...

tomcat: Remote code execution vulnerability in JmxRemoteLifecycleListener

The JmxRemoteLifecycleListener was not updated to take account of Oracle's fix for CVE-2016-3427. JMXRemoteLifecycleListener is only included in EWS 2.x and JWS 3.x source distributions. If you deploy a Tomcat instance built from source, using the EWS 2.x, or JWS 3.x distributions, an attacker...

tomcat: Remote code execution vulnerability in JmxRemoteLifecycleListener

The JmxRemoteLifecycleListener was not updated to take account of Oracle's fix for CVE-2016-3427. JMXRemoteLifecycleListener is only included in EWS 2.x and JWS 3.x source distributions. If you deploy a Tomcat instance built from source, using the EWS 2.x, or JWS 3.x distributions, an attacker...

Google Chrome (Fedora 25 Ubuntu 16.04) - tracker-extract gnome-video-thumbnailer + totem Drive-By Download

Google Chrome Fedora 25 Ubuntu 16.04 - tracker-extract gnome-video-thumbnailer + totem Drive-By Download Source: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html Overview Full reliable 0day drive-by exploit against Fedora 25 + Google Chrome, by breaking out...

Google Chrome (Fedora 25 / Ubuntu 16.04) - 'tracker-extract' / 'gnome-video-thumbnailer' + 'totem' Drive-By Download

Source: https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html Overview Full reliable 0day drive-by exploit against Fedora 25 + Google Chrome, by breaking out of Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulation via cascading side effects from a subtle and interestin...

Alpha Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Released

A sandboxed version of the Tor Browser was released over the weekend, and while there are still some rough edges and bugs – potentially major, according to the developer– it could be the first step toward protecting Tor users from recent de-anonymization exploits. Yawning Angel, a longtime Tor...

Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access on Some Linux Systems

A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems. From there, an attacker could have the ability to copy, modify, or destroy a hard disk, or use the network to exfiltrate...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

PT-2016-6422 · Apache +2 · Apache Tomcat +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apache Tomcat on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf,...

Happy Birthday! LINUX Turns 25 Years Old Today

Linux has turned 25! Dear all, today is August 25, 2016, and it is time for the celebration, as it's the 25th Anniversary of the Linux project, announced by its creator, Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds, on August 25, 1991. Who can forget one of the most famous messages in the computing world...

Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner: WPScan

WPScan is a Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner that attempts to find known security weaknesses within WordPress installations. The application is provided for security professionals or WordPress administrators to help them find security problems and vulnerabilities in their installations. ...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3538-1 (libebml - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libebml, a library for manipulating Extensible Binary Meta Language files. CVE-2015-8789 Context-dependent attackers could trigger a use-after-free vulnerability by providing a maliciously crafted EBML document. CVE-2015-8790 Context-dependent attackers...

DHCP exhaustion attack: DHCPig

dhcpig – an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack DHCPig initiates an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack. It will consume all IPs on the LAN, stop new users from obtaining IPs, release any IPs in use, then for good measure send gratuitous ARP and knock all windows hosts offline. It requires scapy =2.1...

The popular DNS server software BIND exposed serious DoS vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

BIND is the world's most popular DNS server software. The Internet Association, the ISC published Vulnerability CVE-2 0 1 5-5 4 7 7 patch, this is an affected BIND server to a serious denial of service vulnerability. BIND denial of service vulnerability A week ago, the Internet Association, the I...

Libuser Library - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc CVE-2015-3245 userhelper chfn newline filtering CVE-2015-3246 libuser passwd file handling -- Summary ----------------------------------------------------------------- The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and...