OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0228) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump Tom Herbert Orabug: 27169581 CVE-2017-16939 - ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash Herbert Xu Orabug: 27169581 CVE-2017-16939 - net/rds:...

Microsoft Reveals Which Bugs It Won’t Patch

Microsoft has put out initial clarification around which bugs it will rapidly patch, and which ones must wait for a new product release – and which ones it won’t address at all. In a draft document posted online on Tuesday, the software giant laid out the criteria that the Microsoft Security...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3679-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libvirt vulnerability and update (USN-3680-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3680-1 advisory. Ken Johnson and Jann Horn independently discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allo...

USN-3680-1 libvirt vulnerability and update

Ken Johnson and Jann Horn independently discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. An attacker in the guest could use this to expose sensitive guest information, including kernel memory. This update...

Social Media Privacy Dominates Apple iOS 12, macOS Launches

Social media privacy is top of mind for Apple on the heels of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica controversy. On Monday, Apple released the latest versions of its desktop and mobile operating systems at the Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC, which addresses a bevy of security and privacy concern...

All New Privacy and Security Features Coming in macOS 10.14 Mojave

At Worldwide Developer Conference 2018 on Monday, Apple announced the next version of its macOS operating system, and it's called Mojave. Besides introducing new features and improvements of macOS 10.14 Mojave—like Dark Mode, Group FaceTime, Dynamic Desktop, and Finder—at WWDC, Apple also reveale...

All New Privacy and Security Features Coming in macOS 10.14 Mojave

At Worldwide Developer Conference 2018 on Monday, Apple announced the next version of its macOS operating system, and it's called Mojave. Besides introducing new features and improvements of macOS 10.14 Mojave—like Dark Mode, Group FaceTime, Dynamic Desktop, and Finder—at WWDC, Apple also reveale...

Liberapay: Anyone can register organization legal type as "Soletrader"

When Organization type is registered, two values are displayed : Business and Organization. When another value is provided, an error message is printed saying the Legal Type is wrong. This error message is not printed and request success when the value "Soletrader" is provided. The value...

SUSE-SU-2018:1479-1 Security update for kvm

This update for kvm fixes one security issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all...

Virtuozzo 6 : cpupools / cpupools-features / etc (VZA-2018-034)

According to the versions of the cpupools / cpupools-features / etc packages installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch...

OpenFlow has multiple vulnerabilities

OpenFlow is an open source network communication protocol, a data link layer that controls the forwarding plane of a network switch or router, and is considered one of the first software-defined networking SDN standards. A denial of service and improper authorization vulnerability exists in the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: curl-7.55.1-11.fc27

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

SUSE-SU-2018:1386-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: curl-7.59.0-3.fc28

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

USN-3651-1 qemu update

Ken Johnson and Jann Horn independently discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. An attacker in the guest could use this to expose sensitive guest information, including kernel memory. This update...

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:1329-1 Security update for enigmail

This update for enigmail to version 2.0.4 fixes multiple issues. Security issues fixed: - CVE-2017-17688: CFB gadget attacks allowed to exfiltrate plaintext out of encrypted emails. enigmail now fails on GnuPG integrity check warnings for old Algorithms bsc1093151 - CVE-2017-17689: CBC gadget...

Stealing container ship cargo through LOC messaging

In a previous post post I looked at hacking and manipulating EDIFACT messages to destabilise a ship. However, criminals will be far more interested in using these techniques to re-route containers and steal their contents. Similar techniques appear to have been used to steal containers in the pas...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: ckeditor-4.9.2-1.fc26

CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG edito r, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common edit ing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: ckeditor-4.9.2-1.fc28

CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG edito r, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common edit ing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft...