CVE-2017-2616

A race condition was found in util-linux before 2.32.1 in the way su handled the management of child processes. A local authenticated attacker could use this flaw to kill other processes with root privileges under specific conditions...

SUSE-SU-2018:2108-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 28 for SLE 12)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52101 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

Threat Roundup for July 20-27

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed this week — covering the dates between July 20 and 27. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we’ve observed by...

On Financial Fraud

There are some good lessons in this article on financial fraud: That's how we got it so wrong. We were looking for incidental breaches of technical regulations, not systematic crime. And the thing is, that's normal. The nature of fraud is that it works outside your field of vision, subverting the...

The First Step to Deploying Application Control

Application Control remains one of the best techniques for blocking the vast majority of malware threats; however, implementation often falters due to poor planning. Gartner How to Successfully Deploy Application Control Is Whitelisting Worth It? When it comes to preventing new attacks,...

GHSA-6FCQ-3CM2-J3J5 Kcapifony gem for Ruby places database user passwords on the command line

lib/ksymfony1.rb in the kcapifony gem 2.1.6 for Ruby places database user passwords on the 1 mysqldump, 2 pgdump, 3 mysql, and 4 psql command lines, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by listing the processes...

Kcapifony gem for Ruby places database user passwords on the command line

lib/ksymfony1.rb in the kcapifony gem 2.1.6 for Ruby places database user passwords on the 1 mysqldump, 2 pgdump, 3 mysql, and 4 psql command lines, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by listing the processes...

Microhard Systems 3G4G Cellular Ethernet and Serial Gateway - Denial of Service

Microhard Systems 3G4G Cellular Ethernet and Serial Gateway - Denial of Service Microhard Systems 3G/4G Cellular Ethernet and Serial Gateway Service Control DoS Vendor: Microhard Systems Inc. Product web page: http://www.microhardcorp.com Affected version: IPn4G 1.1.0 build 1098 IPn3Gb 2.2.0 buil...

Microhard Systems 3G/4G Cellular Ethernet And Serial Gateway Denial Of Service

Microhard Systems 3G/4G Cellular Ethernet and Serial Gateway Service Control DoS Vendor: Microhard Systems Inc. Product web page: http://www.microhardcorp.com Affected version: IPn4G 1.1.0 build 1098 IPn3Gb 2.2.0 build 2160 IPn4Gb 1.1.6 build 1184-14 IPn4Gb 1.1.0 Rev 2 build 1090-2 IPn4Gb 1.1.0 R...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: polkit-0.115-1.fc28

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes...

Google Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature By Default For Chrome Desktop Users

Google has by default enabled a security feature called "Site Isolation" in its web browser with the release of Chrome 67 for all desktop users to help them protect against many online threats, including Spectre and Meltdown attack. Site Isolation is a feature of the Google Chrome web browser tha...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1116

A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and informati...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1116

A flaw was found in polkit before version 0.116. The implementation of the polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization function in polkitd allows to test for authentication and trigger authentication of unrelated processes owned by other users. This may result in a local DoS and informati...

CVE-2018-6857

Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation via IOCTL 0x802022E0. By crafting an input buffer we can control the execution path to the point where the constant 0x12 will be written to a...

Buffer overflow

Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation via IOCTL 0x802022E0. By crafting an input buffer we can control the execution path to the point where the constant 0x12 will be written to a...

CVE-2018-3608

A vulnerability in Trend Micro Maximum Security's Consumer 2018 versions 12.0.1191 and below User-Mode Hooking UMH driver could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted packet that could alter a vulnerable system in such a way that malicious code could be injected into other processes...

CVE-2017-18226

The Gentoo net-im/jabberd2 package through 2.6.1 sets the ownership of /var/run/jabber to the jabber account, which might allow local users to kill arbitrary processes by leveraging access to this account for PID file modification before a root script executes a "kill -TERM cat...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: qemu-2.11.1-3.fc28

QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation. QEMU has two operating modes: Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system for example a PC, including a processor and various peripherials. It can be used ...

Modern OSs for embedded systems

At Kaspersky Lab we analyze the technologies available on cybersecurity market and this time we decided to look at what OS developers are offering for embedded systems or, in other words, the internet of things. Our primary interest is how and to what degree these OSs can solve...

Security Bulletin: Pre-processing and post-processing scripts can access the entire domain model of server or agent (CVE-2016-2942)

Summary IBM UrbanCode Deploy could allow an authenticated attacker with special permissions to craft a script on the server in a way that will cause processes to run on a remote UCD agent machine. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-2942 DESCRIPTION: IBM UrbanCode Deploy could allow an...