Security Glue Between the Silos of Endpoint, Server, Cloud and Network Security Gets More Critical

Endpoint and Host security techniques have diverged. There used to be considerable similarity between the techniques and tools used to secure desktops, servers, and even networks. Desktops evolved to become Endpoints, as mobile devices proliferated and they were assembled into a collective of bei...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2018:0385-1)

This update for libvirt provides several fixes. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-5748: Prevent resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead method which allowed to cause DoS bsc1076500. These security issues were fixed : - Add a qemu hook script providing functionality similar to Xen's...

Ubuntu 17.10 : python-django vulnerabilities (USN-3559-1)

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information. CVE-2017-12794, CVE-2018-6188. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory...

FreeBSD : w3m - multiple vulnerabilities (e72d5bf5-07a0-11e8-8248-0021ccb9e74d)

Tatsuya Kinoshita reports : CVE-2018-6196 table.c: Prevent negative indent value in feedtableblocktag. CVE-2018-6197 form.c: Prevent invalid columnPos call in formUpdateBuffer. CVE-2018-6198 config.h.dist, config.h.in, configure, configure.ac, main.c, rc.c: Make temporary directory safely when...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Recommended update for libsndfile (SUSE-SU-2018:0351-1)

This update for libsndfile fixes a memory leak in an error path.bsc1038856 - CVE-2017-16942: A divide-by-zero error exists in the function wavw64readfmtchunk in wavw64.c, which may lead to DoS when playing a crafted audio file. bsc1069874 - CVE-2017-14634: In libsndfile 1.0.28, a divide-by-zero...

Attacks Leveraging Adobe Zero-Day (CVE-2018-4878) – Threat Attribution, Attack Scenario and Recommendations

On Jan. 31, KISA KrCERT published an advisory about an Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-4878 being exploited in the wild. On Feb. 1, Adobe issued an advisory confirming the vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and earlier versions, and that successful exploitation coul...

Attacks Leveraging Adobe Zero-Day (CVE-2018-4878) – Threat Attribution, Attack Scenario and Recommendations

On Jan. 31, KISA KrCERT published an advisory about an Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-4878 being exploited in the wild. On Feb. 1, Adobe issued an advisory confirming the vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and earlier versions, and that successful exploitation coul...

Excerpts from Risk & Response: Defending Financial Institutions with Cb Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide on combating the most advanced threats that financial institutions are facing today using the marketing-leading endpoint detection and response solution, Cb Response. For more information on securing large-scale financial enterprises, including how to...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2018:0311-1)

This update for openvswitch fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-9263: While parsing an OpenFlow role status message, there is a call to the abort functio for undefined role status reasons in the function ofpprintrolestatusmessage in lib/ofp-print.c that may be leveraged toward a remote DoS...

Siemens SIMATIC CP Device Detection (SNMP)

This script performs SNMP based detection of Siemens SIMATIC CP devices. 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 if description...

Fedora 26 : moodle (2018-7e086e3309)

CVE-2018-1042/CVE-2018-1043/CVE-2018-1044/CVE-2018-1045 fixes. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1265-1] krb5 security update

Package : krb5 Version : 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u9 CVE ID : CVE-2013-1418 CVE-2014-5351 CVE-2014-5353 CVE-2014-5355 CVE-2016-3119 CVE-2016-3120 Debian Bug : 728845 762479 773226 778647 819468 832572 Kerberos, a system for authenticating users and services on a network, was affected by several...

pfSense < 2.2.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SA-15_07) (Logjam)

According to its self-reported version number, the remote pfSense install is prior to 2.2.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as stated in the referenced vendor advisories. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid106495;...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0276-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.69-606432 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...

SSH Multiple Device Default Credentials

The remote device is a device that uses a set of publicly known, default credentials. Knowing these, an attacker able to connect to the service can gain control of the device. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if descriptio...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0266-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606457 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0267-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606466 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed : - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a crafted...

Debian DLA-1257-1 : openssh security update

OpenSSH was found to be vulnerable to out of order NEWKEYS messages which could crash the daemon, resulting in a denial of service attack. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u7. We recommend that you upgrade your openssh packages. NOTE: Tenable Network...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xorg-x11-libs (SUSE-SU-2018:0246-1)

This update for xorg-x11-libs fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16612: Heap overflows due to an integer overflow while parsing images and a signedness issue while parsing comments bsc1065386. - CVE-2017-13720: Improper check for end of string in PatterMatch cause...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : ruby (EulerOS-SA-2018-1029)

According to the version of the ruby packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The lazyinitialize function in lib/resolv.rb in Ruby through 2.4.3 uses Kernelopen, which might allow Command Injection attacks, as demonstrated by a...