CVE-2018-6389

In WordPress through 4.9.2, unauthenticated attackers can cause a denial of service resource consumption by using the large list of registered .js files from wp-includes/script-loader.php to construct a series of requests to load every file many times...

PT-2018-17524 · WordPress +1 · Wordpress +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress versions prior to 4.9.3 Description: The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming resources. This can be achieved by constructing a series of requests to load a large number of registered .js...

Symlink Privilege Escalation

spring-boot-loader-tools is vulnerable to symlink privilege escalation attacks. The runuser can overwrite and take over ownership of any file on the system by using a symlink attack. The application must be installed as a service and the runuser must have shell access in order to successfully...

SamSam - The Evolution Continues Netting Over $325,000 in 4 Weeks

This post was written by Vitor Ventura Introduction Talos has been working in conjunction with Cisco IR Services on what we believe to be a new variant of the SamSam ransomware. This ransomware has been observed across multiple industries including Government, Healthcare and ICS. These attacks do...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3534-1)

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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for glibc (openSUSE-SU-2018:0089-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Debian DSA-4088-1 : gdk-pixbuf - security update

It was discovered that multiple integer overflows in the GIF image loader in the GDK Pixbuf library may result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image file is opened. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4088-1] gdk-pixbuf security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4088-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 15, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

A week in security (January 8 – January 14)

It's very early in the year, yet everyone has already had a complete meltdown pun intended over a number of serious vulnerabilities found in legacy and modern microprocessors. Last week, rightly so, vendors released patches for hardware and OSes to help mitigate these threats. However, problems i...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2018:0074-1)

This update for glibc fixes the following issues : - A privilege escalation bug in the realpath function has been fixed. CVE-2018-1000001, bsc1074293 - A memory leak and a buffer overflow in the dynamic ELF loader has been fixed. CVE-2017-1000408, CVE-2017-1000409, bsc1071319 - An issue in the co...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4088-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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...

Fake Spectre and Meltdown patch pushes Smoke Loader malware

The Meltdown and Spectre bugs have generated a lot of media attention, and users have been urged to update their machines with fixes made available by various vendors. While some patches have created more issues than they fixed, we came across a particular one targeted at German users that actual...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Apache Sling JCR ContentLoader XmlReader

Apache Sling JCR ContentLoader is the United States Apache Apache Software Foundation for the Java platform for a set of open source Web framework. The framework can be in the JCR Content Repository Java Content Repository on the creation of content-oriented applications . XmlReader is one of the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000476

ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a CPU exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadDDSInfo in coders/dds.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service...

openSUSE Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (openSUSE-2017-1426)

This update for gdk-pixbuf provides the following fixes : - Add overflow checks when creating pixbuf structures in general - Fix arithmetic overflow in the BMP loader bsc1053417 - Adds support for BMPv3 with bitmasks bsc1053417 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (SUSE-SU-2017:3441-1)

This update for gdk-pixbuf provides the following fixes : - Add overflow checks when creating pixbuf structures in general - Fix arithmetic overflow in the BMP loader bsc1053417 - Adds support for BMPv3 with bitmasks bsc1053417 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

SUSE-SU-2017:3441-1 Security update for gdk-pixbuf

This update for gdk-pixbuf provides the following fixes: - Add overflow checks when creating pixbuf structures in general - Fix arithmetic overflow in the BMP loader bsc1053417 - Adds support for BMPv3 with bitmasks bsc1053417...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17788

In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a stack-based buffer over-read in xcfloadstream in app/xcf/xcf.c when there is no '\0' character after the version string...

OpenJDK: insufficient loader constraints checks for invokespecial (Hotspot, 8180711)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Hotspot. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u161, 7u151, 8u144 and 9; Java SE Embedded: 8u144. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple...

GNU C Library Dynamic Loader glibc ld.so - Memory Leak / Buffer Overflow

Qualys Security Advisory Buffer overflow in glibc's ld.so ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Memory Leak Buffer Overflow Exploitation Acknowledgments...