The CIS Critical Security Controls Series

What are the CIS Critical Security Controls? The Center for Internet Security CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls previously known as the SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls, is an industry-leading way to answer your key security question: "How can I be prepared to stop known attacks?" The...

F5 BIG-IP - TMM vulnerability CVE-2017-6137

Undisclosed traffic patterns received while software SYN cookie protection is engaged may cause a disruption of service to the Traffic Management Microkernel TMM on specific platforms and configurations. CVE-2017-6137 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be...

CVE-2016-9253

In F5 BIG-IP 12.1.0 through 12.1.2, specific websocket traffic patterns may cause a disruption of service for virtual servers configured to use the websocket profile...

CVE-2017-6137

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, PSM, WebAccelerator, and WebSafe 11.6.1 HF1, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, and 12.1.0 through 12.1.2, undisclosed traffic patterns received while software SYN cookie protection is engaged may cause a disrupti...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : TMM vulnerability (K82851041)

In F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, DNS, Edge Gateway, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, PSM, WebAccelerator, and WebSafe 11.6.1 HF1, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, and 12.1.0 through 12.1.2, undisclosed traffic patterns received while software SYN cookie protection is engaged may cause a disrupti...

Windows Defender ATP thwarts Operation WilySupply software supply chain cyberattack

Several weeks ago, the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP research team noticed security alerts that demonstrated an intriguing attack pattern. These early alerts uncovered a well-planned, finely orchestrated cyberattack that targeted several high-profile technology...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: yara-3.5.0-7.fc25

YARA is a tool aimed at but not limited to helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families or whatever you want to describe based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strin...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: yara-3.5.0-7.fc24

YARA is a tool aimed at but not limited to helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families or whatever you want to describe based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strin...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9954

The backtrack compilation code in the Irregex package aka IrRegular Expressions before 0.9.6 for Scheme allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted regular expression with a repeating pattern...

USN-3239-1 eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the GNU C Library incorrectly handled the strxfrm function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-8982 It was discovered that an integer...

FileBuster - An Extremely Fast And Flexible Web Fuzzer

An extremely fast and flexible web fuzzer. Why another fuzzer? My main motivation was to write a script that would allow me to fuzz a website based on a dictionary but that allowed me to filter words on that dictionary based on regex patterns. This necessity came from the frustration of trying to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: flex-2.6.0-2.fc23

The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The...

pcre: Buffer overflow caused by duplicate named references (8.38/36)

The compileregex function in pcrecompile.c in PCRE before 8.38 and pcre2compile.c in PCRE2 before 10.2x mishandles the /?J:?|:?|?'R'\k'R'|?'R'H'Rk'Rf|s?'R'/ and /?J:?|:?|?'R'\z?|?'R'\k'R'|?'R'k'R'|?'R'H'Ak'Rf|s?'R'/ patterns, and related patterns with certain group references, which allows remote...

Nextcloud: URI scheme bypass in mail app lead to HTML content spoof and opener control

Bug When we load a HTML mail from mailbox via api, etc http://nextcloud/index.php/apps/mail/accounts//folders/SU5CT1g=/messages//html Our content will be passed to HTML Purifier to strip malicious XSS patterns. After that, an filter will apply to transform acceptable URI schemes http, https, ftp,...

nodejs-negotiator: Regular expression denial-of-service

A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Negotiator. An attacker able to make an application using Negotiator to perform matching using a specially crafted glob pattern could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU...

nodejs-minimatch: Regular expression denial-of-service

A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Minimatch. An attacker able to make an application using Minimatch to perform matching using a specially crafted glob pattern could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU...

nodejs-minimatch: Regular expression denial-of-service

A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Minimatch. An attacker able to make an application using Minimatch to perform matching using a specially crafted glob pattern could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: flex-2.6.0-2.fc24

The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The...

Mimikittenz - Post-Exploitation Powershell Tool for Extracting Juicy info from Memory

mimikittenz is a post-exploitation powershell tool that utilizes the Windows function ReadProcessMemory in order to extract plain-text passwords from various target processes. mimikittenz can also easily extract other kinds of juicy info from target processes using regex patterns including but no...

Foxit Patches 12 Vulnerabilities, 8 That Could Lead to RCE

Foxit patched a dozen vulnerabilities in its PDF reader software this week, more than half of which could allow an attacker to directly execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the product. The company released version 8.0 of its Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF on Monday, addressin...