January 3, 2018—KB4056898 (Security-only update)

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January 3, 2018—KB4056899 (Security-only update)

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January 4, 2018—KB4056896 (Monthly Rollup)

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January 8, 2018—KB4056895 (Monthly Rollup)

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Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Jerusalem Bicha

We conclude our series featuring women in tech at Imperva with an interview with Jerusalem Bicha, network operations team lead at Imperva. We talked about her path to a career in cybersecurity. Tell us how you got into cybersecurity. JB: I actually don’t have a degree. My career in cybersecurity...

OpenJDK: newline injection in the SMTP client (Networking, 8171533)

A newline injection flaw was discovered in the SMTP client implementation in the Networking component in OpenJDK. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to manipulate SMTP connections established by a Java application...

OpenJDK: HTTP client insufficient check for newline in URLs (Networking, 8176751)

It was found that the HttpURLConnection and HttpsURLConnection classes in the Networking component of OpenJDK failed to check for newline characters embedded in URLs. An attacker able to make a Java application perform an HTTP request using an attacker provided URL could possibly inject additiona...

OpenJDK: newline injection in the FTP client (Networking, 8170222)

A newline injection flaw was discovered in the FTP client implementation in the Networking component in OpenJDK. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to manipulate FTP connections established by a Java application...

Protecting Your Children with Parental Controls

Chances are, your kids have never known a world when the internet wasn’t there—which is both good and bad news. On the one hand, it means these digital natives take to the online world much quicker than you or I ever did. On the other, it also means they’re less likely to question what they see o...

PHOENIX CONTACT FL COMSERVER, FL COM SERVER, and PSI-MODEM/ETH

CVSS v3 8.2 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: PHOENIX CONTACT Equipment: FL COMSERVER, FL COM SERVER, and PSI-MODEM/ETH Vulnerability: Cross-site Scripting AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following models running firmware versions prior to 1.99, 2.20, or 2.40 of FL...

RHEL 6 / 7 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (RHSA-2017:3392)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3392 advisory. The java-1.7.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 7 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 7 Java Software Development Kit. Security...

OpenJDK: no default network operations timeouts in FtpClient (Networking, 8181612)

It was found that the FtpClient implementation in the Networking component of OpenJDK did not set connect and read timeouts by default. A malicious FTP server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to block execution of a Java application connecting to an FTP server...

OpenJDK: HTTP client insufficient check for newline in URLs (Networking, 8176751)

It was found that the HttpURLConnection and HttpsURLConnection classes in the Networking component of OpenJDK failed to check for newline characters embedded in URLs. An attacker able to make a Java application perform an HTTP request using an attacker provided URL could possibly inject additiona...

Google Android Qualcomm Wireless networking information disclosure vulnerability

Android on Google Pixel and Nexus is a Linux-based open source operating system for the Google Pixel and Nexus smartphones developed by Google Inc. and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Qualcomm Wireless networking is one of the wireless networking components used by Qualcomm. Networking is a Qualcom...

Randy Bias joins Wallarm board of advisers

Menlo Park, California — December 5, 2017 — Wallarm today announced that Randy Bias, Vice President of Technology and Strategy, Cloud Software at Juniper and founder of Cloudscaling acquired by EMC, has joined Wallarm’s board of advisers. “Randy is an agile cloud pioneer and a thought leader in...

November 30, 2017—KB4051963 (OS Build 16299.98)

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USN-3497-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Smart Card IO subsystem in OpenJDK did not properly maintain state. An attacker could use this to specially construct an untrusted Java application or applet to gain access to a smart card, bypassing sandbox restrictions. CVE-2017-10274 Gaston Traberg discovered that th...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities (USN-3497-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3497-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Smart Card IO subsystem in OpenJDK did not properly maintain state. An attacker could use this to specially construct an...

OpenJDK: no default network operations timeouts in FtpClient (Networking, 8181612)

It was found that the FtpClient implementation in the Networking component of OpenJDK did not set connect and read timeouts by default. A malicious FTP server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to block execution of a Java application connecting to an FTP server...

OpenJDK: HTTP client insufficient check for newline in URLs (Networking, 8176751)

It was found that the HttpURLConnection and HttpsURLConnection classes in the Networking component of OpenJDK failed to check for newline characters embedded in URLs. An attacker able to make a Java application perform an HTTP request using an attacker provided URL could possibly inject additiona...