[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: nekovm-2.2.0-8.fc29

Neko is a high-level dynamically typed programming language which can also be used as an embedded scripting language. It has been designed to provide a common run-time for several different languages. Neko is not only very easy to learn and use, but also has the flexibility of being able to exten...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: julia-1.0.1-3.fc29

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical...

Authentication flaw

There is an authentication bypass vulnerability in some Huawei servers. A remote attacker with low privilege may bypass the authentication by some special operations. Due to insufficient authentication, an attacker may exploit the vulnerability to get some sensitive information and high-level...

CVE-2018-7943

There is an authentication bypass vulnerability in some Huawei servers. A remote attacker with low privilege may bypass the authentication by some special operations. Due to insufficient authentication, an attacker may exploit the vulnerability to get some sensitive information and high-level...

CVE-2018-7943

CVE-2018-7943 describes an authentication bypass in certain Huawei servers. Huawei’s advisory HWPSIRT-2018-02048 confirms a vulnerability where a remote attacker with low privileges can bypass authentication through specific operations, potentially exposing sensitive information and elevating pri...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Microsoft

CVE-2018-8174 MS Word MS WordPad via IE VBS Engine RCE MS Wo...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: perl-5.26.2-410.fc28

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and she ll scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: python3-3.6.5-1.fc28

Python is an accessible, high-level, dynamically typed, interpreted program ming language, designed with an emphasis on code readability. It includes an extensive standard library, and has a vast ecosystem of third-party libraries. The python3 package provides the "python3" executable: the...

Integrate Your Ticketing System into Database Security to Prevent DBA Privilege Abuse

Many of the recent high-profile data security breaches were made by trusted insiders. They are often database administrators DBAs who are highly privileged and trusted insiders with access to sensitive data. In this blog post, I will discuss the inherent risk introduced by highly privileged...

How the EU intends to battle fake news

Last week the European Union issued a press release to announce their next steps against fake news. These steps will be the launch of a public consultation and the setup of a high-level expert group representing academics, online platforms, news media, and civil society organizations. The first...

Apple AppleBCMWLANCore Driver Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore driver when handling Completed Firmware Timestamp messages 0x27 CVE-2017-7103 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13687

The Cisco HDLC parser in tcpdump before 4.9.2 has a buffer over-read in print-chdlc.c:chdlcprint...

Level up your cybersecurity journey with CLOUDSEC 2017

Beginning this month, Trend Micro will be hosting CLOUDSEC, one of the largest cybersecurity conferences across Asia-Pacific and Europe. The event features presentations and panel discussions from industry experts and thought leaders who will discuss high-level strategies, forward looking securit...

rustgo: calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead

русский Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptography is unforgiving. Wouldn't it ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: ocaml-4.04.0-10.fc26

OCaml is a high-level, strongly-typed, functional and object-oriented programming language from the ML family of languages. This package comprises two batch compilers a fast bytecode compiler and an optimizing native-code compiler, an interactive toplevel system, parsing tools Lex,Yacc, a replay...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: jenkins-xstream-1.4.7-11.jenkins1.fc24

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. A high level facade is supplied that simplifies common use cases. Custom objects can be serialized without need for specifying mappings. Speed and low memory footprint are a crucial part of the design, making it suitable for...

kernel: Race condition access to n_hdlc.tbuf causes double free in n_hdlc_release()

A race condition flaw was found in the NHLDC Linux kernel driver when accessing nhdlc.tbuf list that can lead to double free. A local, unprivileged user able to set the HDLC line discipline on the tty device could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system...

CVE-2016-5349

The high level operating systems HLOS was not providing sufficient memory address information to ensure that secure applications inside Qualcomm Secure Execution Environment QSEE only write to legitimate memory ranges related to the QSEE secure application's HLOS client. When secure applications...

USN-3254-1: Django vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled numeric redirect URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform XSS attacks, and to use a Django server as an open redirect. CVE-2017-7233 Phithon Gong discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain URLs when the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: python-2.7.12-2.fc24

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as t...