Microsoft Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

On October 13, 2020, Microsoft fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows TCP/IP stack for handling ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. While Microsoft ranks this vulnerability as “Exploitation More Likely,” we may see a proof-of-concept released soon. The security issue...

New Features in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance

Today we are excited to announce several new features, workflows, and new technology support in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance. These new features will be deployed as a part of QWEB 10.0 and Portal 3.0 release versions. Vulnerability Management Launch and Schedule scans...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13118

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-13118

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data...

CVE-2019-13118

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13118

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data...

Why You Should Join Carbon Black at QueryCon 2019

Carbon Black Joining Trail of Bits to Support QueryCon 2019 We are excited to announce that Carbon Black will be joining with Trail of Bits and Kolide to sponsor QueryCon 2019. QueryCon is a conference dedicated to Osquery, an open source tool that allows users to query their devices like a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10728

An issue was discovered in Suricata before 3.1.2. If an ICMPv4 error packet is received as the first packet on a flow in the toclient direction, it confuses the rule grouping lookup logic. The toclient inspection will then continue with the wrong rule group. This can lead to missed detection...

CVE-2016-10728

An issue was discovered in Suricata before 3.1.2. If an ICMPv4 error packet is received as the first packet on a flow in the toclient direction, it confuses the rule grouping lookup logic. The toclient inspection will then continue with the wrong rule group. This can lead to missed detection...

CVE-2016-10728

An issue was discovered in Suricata before 3.1.2. If an ICMPv4 error packet is received as the first packet on a flow in the toclient direction, it confuses the rule grouping lookup logic. The toclient inspection will then continue with the wrong rule group. This can lead to missed detection...

Optimizing A Monitoring System: Three Methods for Effective Incident Management

Picture this: You’ve just returned from a well-deserved vacation and, upon opening up your security monitoring system you’re faced with the prospect of analyzing thousands of events. This isn’t an imaginary scenario, the security monitoring world actually monitoring in general is full of anomalie...

Microsoft Windows: Service: Peer Networking Grouping

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winpeernetworkinggrouping.nasl 11344 2018-09-12 06:57:52Z emoss $ Check value for Peer Networking Grouping p2psvc Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This progra...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Moodle is vulnerable to cross-site scripting XSS attacks. A malicious user can inject and execute arbitrary script through a grouping description...

Samba CVE-2017-7494: Scanning and Remediating in InsightVM and Nexpose

Just when youd finished wiping away your WannaCry tears, the interwebs dropped another bombshell: a nasty Samba vulnerability, CVE-2017-7494 no snazzy name as of the publishing of this blog, but hopefully something with a Lion King reference will be created soon. As with WannaCry, we wanted to ke...

CVE-2015-9004

kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 mishandles counter grouping, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to the perfpmuregister and perfeventopen functions...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-9004

kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 mishandles counter grouping, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to the perfpmuregister and perfeventopen functions...

CVE-2015-9004

kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 mishandles counter grouping, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to the perfpmuregister and perfeventopen functions...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-9004

kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 mishandles counter grouping, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to the perfpmuregister and perfeventopen functions...

CVE-2015-9004

kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 mishandles counter grouping, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to the perfpmuregister and perfeventopen functions...

CVE-2015-9004

kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 mishandles counter grouping, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to the perfpmuregister and perfeventopen functions...