Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in an IBM Tivoli Monitoring shared component shipped with Agent for NetApp Storage (CVE-2015-4000)

Summary An IBM Tivoli Monitoring shared component is included as part of Agent for NetApp Storage. Information about a security vulnerability affecting an IBM Tivoli Monitoring shared component has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Please consult the security bulletin f...

Scout2 - Security Auditing Tool For AWS Environments

Scout2 is a security tool that lets AWS administrators assess their environment's security posture. Using the AWS API, Scout2 gathers configuration data for manual inspection and highlights high-risk areas automatically. Rather than pouring through dozens of pages on the web, Scout2 supplies a...

USN-3718-1: Linux kernel regression

USN-3695-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Unfortunately, the fix for CVE-2018-1108 introduced a regression where insufficient early entropy prevented services from starting, leading in some situations to a failure to boot, This update addresses the issue. We...

How to change the timeouts for the vSphere Connector

Sometimes a customer's environment is much slower than we planned for. We saw a scenario where disk moves and copies were taking several hours while still completing successfully. The vSphere connector was timing out much earlier, though. The ability to configure the timeouts is in 4.3 and all...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: singularity-2.5.2-1.fc28

Singularity provides functionality to make portable containers that can be used across host environments...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: singularity-2.5.2-1.fc27

Singularity provides functionality to make portable containers that can be used across host environments...

Design/Logic Flaw

DISPUTED An issue has been found in PNGwriter 0.7.0. It is a SEGV in pngwriter::readfromfile in pngwriter.cc. NOTE: there is a "Warning: PNGwriter was never designed for reading untrusted files with it. Do NOT use this in sensitive environments, especially DO NOT read PNGs from unknown sources wi...

CVE-2018-14047

An issue has been found in PNGwriter 0.7.0. It is a SEGV in pngwriter::readfromfile in pngwriter.cc. NOTE: there is a "Warning: PNGwriter was never designed for reading untrusted files with it. Do NOT use this in sensitive environments, especially DO NOT read PNGs from unknown sources with it!"...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: CloudForms 4.6.3 bug fix and enhancement update

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE...

P = NP: Cloud data protection in vulnerable non-production environments

Data is the holy grail of your cloud workloads for attackers. Data breaches are the kind of breaches that make the news. With the recent European Union General Data Protection Regulations GDPR, they will make even bigger headlines. From an enterprise point of view, the most challenging aspect of...

Microsoft Windows CVE-2018-8309 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to restart the affected system, denying service to legitimate users. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 f...

Microsoft Windows Kernel 'Win32k.sys' CVE-2018-8282 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. This can result in the attacker gaining complete control of the affected system. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10...

USN-3695-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize the crc32c checksum driver. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2018-1094 It was discovered that the cdrom driver in the Linux kernel contained an...

The need and opportunity for adaptive prevention in the cloud

This post is authored by Michael Bargury, Data Scientist, C+E Security. The need The cloud introduces new security challenges, which differ from classic ones by diversity and scale. Once a Virtual Machine VM is up and running with an open internet port, it is almost instantaneously subject to...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ that is used by IBM Spectrum Protect formerly Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in October 2017 and January 2018...

ON PREM vs. CLOUD.

Security and Other considerations. Part 1 By Johan Nordstrom The only constant in this world is change, and these days it’s coming quicker and faster than ever before, as is evident in the explosive market for cloud services. A recent research and analysis from Cisco showed that the global intern...

GHSA-PR3H-JJHJ-573X Sprockets path traversal leads to information leak

Specially crafted requests can be used to access files that exist on the filesystem that is outside an application's root directory, when the Sprockets server is used in production. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the work arounds immediately. Workaround:...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM GSKit component of IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM GSKit component of IBM Spectrum Protect formerly Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V. IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V has addressed the applicable CVEs...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilites in IBM Java Runtime affect Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware and FlashCopy Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot) for VMware

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ used by Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware and FlashCopy Manager IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware. These issues were disclose...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilites in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware on Windows (CVE-2016-3485)

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Technology Edition that is used by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware IBM Spectrum Protect™ for Virtual Environments. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK...