What’s wrong with patch-based Vulnerability Management checks?

My last post about Guinea Pigs and Vulnerability Management products may seem unconvincing without some examples. So, let's review one. It's a common problem that exists among nearly all VM vendors, I will demonstrate it on Tenable Nessus. If you perform vulnerability scans, you most likely seen...

Fedora 28 : libarchive (2018-20c24949c0)

latest upstream release, fixes several CVE issues Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.3. cryptoreportone and related functions in crypto/cryptouser.c the crypto user configuration API do not fully initialize structures that are copied to userspace, potentially leaking sensitive memory to user programs. NOTE: this is a...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP SOCKS proxy vulnerability (K55225440)

Responses to SOCKS proxy requests made through the BIG-IP system may cause a disruption of service provided by theTraffic Management Microkernel TMM. The data plane is impacted and exposed only when a SOCKS proxy profile is attached to a virtual server. The control plane is not impacted by this...

SCADA Engine BACnet OPC Client Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to ICS-ALERT-10-260-01 SCADA Engine BACnet OPC Client Buffer Overflow, which was published on the ICS-CERT Web site on September 17, 2010. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reportedSecunia Advisory SA41466, http://secunia.com/advisories/41466/, website...

Beijer Electronics ADP and H-Designer Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Overview This advisory provides details about a buffer overflow vulnerability in multiple Beijer Electronics ADP and H-designer products. Independent researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of Information and Communication Security Technology Center ICST has identified a buffer overflow vulnerability in Beije...

Bounded Model Checking Framework for Heap-implementations: HeapHopper

Heap metadata attacks have become one of the primary ways in which attackers exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities. While heap implementation developers have introduced mitigations to prevent and detect corruption, it is still possible for attackers to work around them. In part, this is becau...

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic EDS Vulnerability (Update A)

OVERVIEW A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic EDS Hardware Installation Tool RSHWare.exe. This vulnerability is likely exploitable; however, significant user interaction would be required. AFFECTED PRODUCTS EDS Hardware Installation Tool Version 1.0.5.1...

Exploitable or Not Exploitable? Using REVEN to Examine a NULL Pointer Dereference.

Authored by Aleksandar Nikolic. Executive summary It can be very time-consuming to determine if a bug is exploitable or not. In this post, we’ll show how to decide if a vulnerability is exploitable by tracing back along the path of execution that led to a crash. In this case, we are using the...

Khan Academy: POST XSS in https://www.khanacademy.org.tr/ via page_search_query parameter

Hey there, while testing your program I came across a XSS vulnerability in the search area of your website. The vector uses HTTP POST request and the parameter is "pagesearchquery"" on www.khanacademy.org.tr/arama.asp In the next topics I will demonstrate how you can reproduce the vulnerability...

Adobe Flash Player for Mac <= 29.0.0.171 (APSB18-19)

The version of Adobe Flash Player installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is equal or prior to version 29.0.0.171. It is therefore affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid110396; scriptversion"1.8";...

RHEL 6 : Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 (RHSA-2018:1607)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1607 advisory. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server. This asynchronous patch is a...

Xen Intel Architecture Debug Exception Handling Local Privilege Escalation (XSA-260)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Note that Nessus has checked the changeset versions based on the xen.git change log. Nessus did not check guest hardware configurations or if...

CISO Forum and the problems of Vulnerability Databases

Last Tuesday, April 24, I was at "CISO FORUM 2020: glance to the future". I presented there my report "Vulnerability Databases: sifting thousands tons of verbal ore". In this post, I'll briefly talk about this report and about the event itself. My speech was the last in the program. At the same...

Ed: Session Cookie Without Secure Flag

Hi Ed, The bug mentioned in the report 343095 is not yet correctly patched I believe. Previously, the Researcher reports that the cookiegitlabsession is not Secure Missing Secure Flag and u closed that report as Informative and said that "Expoitability of this issue is so low that it does not...

LCDS - Leão Consultoria e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Ltda ME LAquis SCADA

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.0 Vendor : LCDS - Leão Consultoria e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas LTDA ME Equipment : LAquis SCADA Vulnerability : Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause the device an attacker...

Aspen < 0.22 Directory Traversal

According to its banner, the version of Aspen running on the remote host is prior to 0.22. It is, therefore, affected by a directory traversal vulnerability due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 138083-01

SunOS 5.10: snoop patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Aug/04/08 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

4.1.0 -> 4.1-ESV-R15, 4.2.0 -> 4.2.8, 4.3.0 -> 4.3.6, 4.4.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The DHCP server version installed on the remote host is 4.1.0 to 4.1-ESV-R15, or 4.2.0 to 4.2.8, or 4.3.0 to 4.3.6, or 4.4.0. It is, therefore, vulnerable to a denial of service condition with in the omapiconnectionwriter function of the omapip/buffer.c script due to improper handling of an empty...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2018 Edition

Microsoft today released a bevy of security updates to tackle more than 50 serious weaknesses in Windows, Internet Explorer/Edge, Microsoft Office and Adobe Flash Player, among other products. A good number of the patches issued today ship with Microsoft's "critical" rating, meaning the problems...