USN-3461-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers contained flaws in the kernel mode layer. A local attacker could use these issues to cause a denial of service or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

Hardening the system and maintaining integrity with Windows Defender System Guard

One of the things we spend a great deal of time thinking about here at Microsoft is how attackers will attempt to persist and evade detection once they’ve successfully compromised a device. With Windows 10 we’ve made it more difficult to find ways to exploit potential entry points, and it’s clear...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-1160)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash via ...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.90 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000252: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service assertion failure, and hypervisor hang or crash via a...

October 10, 2017—KB4041678 (Security-only update)

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Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Tegra Jetson L4T contains multiple vulnerabilities; updates for “BlueBorne” and “Dnsmasq”.

Vulnerability Details The following sections summarize the vulnerabilities. Descriptions use CWE™ and risk assessments follow CVSS. CVE-2016-2434 NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVHOST where an attacker can write an arbitrary value to an arbitrary location, which may lead t...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - October 2017

Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month's advisory release addresses 63 new vulnerabilities with 28 of them rated critical and 35 rated important. These vulnerabilities impact Graphic...

September 12, 2017—KB4038793 (Security-only update)

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CVE-2017-14991

Consolidated details from connected advisories show CVE-2017-14991 affects the Linux kernel sg_ioctl path (drivers/scsi/sg.c) with vulnerable code in sg_get_request_table handling for /dev/sg0. The flaw exists in kernels before 4.13.4, allowing local attackers to read uninitialized kernel heap me...

SRC-2018-0007 : Beckoff TwinCAT3 Multiple Kernel Drivers Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Details: This vulnerability allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Beckoff TwinCAT3. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exist...

Building a Security Risk Management Program

The frequency of data breaches today highlights the need to peel back the onion on security programs and identify a laser-focused mission and ultimate goal. As a compliance manager, I know the horror stories first hand. Let’s take a deeper dive into security and risk management basics to enable...

Protecting Confidential Data: You May Not Be as Secure as You Think

Part One of a Three Part Series Unless you have been out of the country or otherwise shunning the news, you have likely heard that on September 7th and again on September 15th, Equifax reported that it suffered a security incident from May 13th through July 30th, 2017. This breach is broad reachi...

Taking the Fight Where It Belongs

This Guest blog was written by Robert Mahowald, a Group Vice President at IDC who leads IDC's Worldwide Applications research practice, in addition to co-leading IDC's Cloud Services: Global Overview program. A surprising set of facts emerged from the most recent quarterly installment of IDC's...

MGASA-2017-0343 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream 4.9.50 and fixes at least the following security issues: net/xfrm/xfrmpolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.3, when CONFIGXFRMMIGRATE is enabled, does not ensure that the dir value of xfrmuserpolicyid is XFRMPOLICYMAX or less, which allows local use...

Netdecision 5.8.2 - Local Privilege Escalation

// Netdecision.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. / Exploit Title: Netdecision 5.8.2 - Local Privilege Escalation - Winring0x32.sys Date: 2017.09.17 Exploit Author: Peter Baris Vendor Homepage: www.netmechanica.com Software Link: http://www.netmechanica.com/downloads/...

CVE-2017-8675

The Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers component on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability when the Win32k...

CVE-2017-8675

The Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers component on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability when the Win32k...

Privilege escalation

The Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers component on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability when the Win32k...

CVE-2017-8675

The CVE-2017-8675 entry describes an elevation of privilege in Windows due to a flaw in the Win32k subsystem. Affects: Windows kernel-mode drivers component on Windows versions including Windows Server 2008 SP2/R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 (1...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2017-1017)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.85 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-14051: An integer overflow in the qla2x00sysfswriteoptromctl function in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qlaattr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to caus...