Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Populations Are Exploding

New research: "Global proliferation of cephalopods" Summary: Human activities have substantially changed the world's oceans in recent decades, altering marine food webs, habitats and biogeochemical processes. Cephalopods squid, cuttlefish and octopuses have a unique set of biological traits,...

PT-2017-4232 · Mikrotik · Routeros +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mikrotik RouterOS versions prior to Stable 6.38.5 Mikrotik RouterOS versions prior to Long-term 6.37.5 Description: The issue is related to memory corruption in the Mikrotik RouterOS web server. A remote and unauthenticated user can trigger t...

CVE-2017-1000253

Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 committed on April 14, 2015. This kernel vulnerability was fixed in April 2015 by commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 backported to Linux 3.10.7...

CVE-2017-1000253

Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 committed on April 14, 2015. This kernel vulnerability was fixed in April 2015 by commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 backported to Linux 3.10.7...

CentOS 7 before 1708 PIE/stack corruption Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category remote exploits Linux PIE/stack corruption CVE-2017-1000253 ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Analysis Exploitation Acknowledgmen...

CVE-2017-1000253

Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 committed on April 14, 2015. This kernel vulnerability was fixed in April 2015 by commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 backported to Linux 3.10.7...

CVE-2017-1000253

Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 committed on April 14, 2015. This kernel vulnerability was fixed in April 2015 by commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 backported to Linux 3.10.7...

CVE-2017-1000253

Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 committed on April 14, 2015. This kernel vulnerability was fixed in April 2015 by commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 backported to Linux 3.10.7...

CVE-2017-14140

The movepages system call in mm/migrate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 doesn't check the effective uid of the target process, enabling a local attacker to learn the memory layout of a setuid executable despite ASLR...

The vulnerability of the LTE component of the Android operating system from the CAF repository, which allows a perpetrator to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the LTE component of the Android operating system exists due to insufficient verification of data related to the size of the frequency list. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the...

FAQ: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Long Term Service Release (LTSR)

Table of Contents General LTSR Information LTSR upgrades Mixing LTSR, CR, and Cloud releases Support lifecycles LTSR compliance Citrix Workspace app LTSR Release timing Other considerations and resources General LTSR Information What’s new and what’s changed with the Citrix Virtual Apps and...

Legal Robot: Privilege Escalation to Admin-level Account

A security researcher discovered a potentially serious privilege escalation issue in our system which was ultimately traced to our use of the allow-deny package provided in the open source Meteor framework. We implemented a short-term fix using triggers - not great performance on the same day thi...

Windows 10 & 11 Compatibility with Citrix Virtual Desktops (XenDesktop)

With the release of the Windows 10 & 11 Operating Systems, Microsoft introduced a new way to build, deploy, and service Windows:Windows as a service. New features are packaged into Feature Updates. Bug fixes and security fixes are packaged into Quality/Feature Updates. These updates can be deploy...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9526

In Libgcrypt before 1.7.7, an attacker who learns the EdDSA session key from side-channel observation during the signing process can easily recover the long-term secret key. 1.7.7 makes a cipher/ecc-eddsa.c change to store this session key in secure memory, to ensure that constant-time point...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9526

In Libgcrypt before 1.7.7, an attacker who learns the EdDSA session key from side-channel observation during the signing process can easily recover the long-term secret key. 1.7.7 makes a cipher/ecc-eddsa.c change to store this session key in secure memory, to ensure that constant-time point...

The Successful CISO: Tips for Paving the Way to Job Security

Seasoned CISOs know that failure to plan past a two-year window is dangerous—to both their company and their job security. But it’s all too common for many security strategies to look only two years out. Imperva CISO Shahar Ben-Hador has been with Imperva for eight-and-a-half years—the last...

Google Patches Android 'Custom Boot Mode' Vulnerability

A high-risk Android custom boot mode vulnerability was one of many bugs patched by Google as part of its January Android Security Bulletin released earlier this week. On Thursday, the IBM security team that discovered the vulnerability disclosed details about the flaw which leaves Nexus 6 and 6P...

USN-3128-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerability

USN-3128-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ondrej Kozina discovered that the keyring interface in the Linux kernel contained a...

Long Term Evolution Network Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Long Term Evolution LTE is a 4G wireless broadband technology developed by the Third Generation Partnership Project 3GPP project team. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in LTE devices. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information and execute a...

USN-3106-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerability

USN-3106-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux...