How the EU intends to battle fake news

Last week the European Union issued a press release to announce their next steps against fake news. These steps will be the launch of a public consultation and the setup of a high-level expert group representing academics, online platforms, news media, and civil society organizations. The first...

USN-3480-2 apport regressions

USN-3480-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The fix for CVE-2017-14177 introduced a regression in the ability to handle crashes for users that configured their systems to use the Upstart init system in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.04. The fix for CVE-2017-14180 temporarily disabled crash...

Fake Sandbox Processes (FSP) - Tool to simulate fake processes of analysis sandbox/VM software

This small script will simulate fake processes of analysis, sandbox and/or VM software that some malware will try to avoid. You can download the original script made by @x0rz in the orig directory. You can also download my slightly optimized script in the main directory. The file is named fsp.ps1...

CVE-2017-9369

In BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform SDP 6.6.0 and 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier, an information disclosure vulnerability in the default configuration of the QNX SDP could allow an attacker to gain information relating to memory layout of higher privileged processes by manipulating environment...

Linux Process Hunter: Prochunter

Prochunter aims to find hidden process with all userspace and most of the kernelspace rootkits. This tool is composed of a kernel module that prints out all running processes walking the taskstruct list and creates /sys/kernel/prochunter/set entry. A python script that invokes the kernel function...

Bareos Privilege Permission and Access Control Vulnerabilities

Bareos is a set of open source data protection software from the German company Bareos. bareos-dir, bareos-fd and bareos-sd are among the core programs. A privilege permission and access control vulnerability exists in bareos-dir, bareos-fd, and bareos-sd in Bareos 16.2.6 and earlier versions,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: qemu-2.10.1-1.fc27

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 ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: qemu-2.10.1-1.fc27

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 ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: qemu-2.9.1-2.fc26

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 ...

Catalyst Mahara Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability

Catalyst Mahara is a social networking system from Catalyst IT in New Zealand. The system includes a blog, resume builder, file manager, and more. A security vulnerability exists in Catalyst Mahara, which stems from the program's failure to detect black and white lists for all processes redirecte...

DevSecOps: Building Continuous Security Into IT and App Infrastructures

With software now at the heart of essential business processes, organizations must build security into their IT and application development pipeline to prevent breaches, avoid compliance violations, and protect digital transformation initiatives. This especially applies to organizations creating...

GHSA-XWR3-FMGJ-MMFR Exposure of Sensitive Information in bio-basespace-sdk

The putcall function in the API client api/apiclient.rb in the BaseSpace Ruby SDK aka bio-basespace-sdk gem 0.1.7 for Ruby uses the APIKEY on the command line, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by listing the processes...

Kaspersky Opens Antivirus Source Code for Independent Review to Rebuild Trust

Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide! Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a "comprehensive transparency initiative," to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec community. Kaspersky launch...

DumpsterFire Toolset: Security Incidents In A Box

The DumpsterFire Toolset is a modular, menu-driven, cross-platform tool for building repeatable, time-delayed, distributed security events. Easily create custom event chains for Blue Team drills and sensor / alert mapping. Red Teams can create decoy incidents, distractions, and lures to support a...

Debian DLA-1136-1 : db4.8 security update

It was found that the Berkeley DB reads DBCONFIG from the current working directory, leading to information leak by tricking privileged processes into reading arbitrary files. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.30-12+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your db4...

Debian DLA-1135-1 : db security update

It was found that the Berkeley DB reads DBCONFIG from the current working directory, leading to information leak by tricking privileged processes into reading arbitrary files. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 5.1.29-5+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your db...

CVE-2017-15537

The x86/fpu Floating Point Unit subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, when a processor supports the xsave feature but not the xsaves feature, does not correctly handle attempts to set reserved bits in the xstate header via the ptrace or rtsigreturn system call, allowing local users to read...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.6 security update

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in...

NET Debugger & Assembly Editor: dnSpy

dnSpy is a tool to reverse engineer .NET assemblies. It includes a decompiler, a debugger and an assembly editor and more and can be easily extended by writing your own extension. It uses dnlib to read and write assemblies so it can handle obfuscated assemblies eg. malware without crashing...

CVE-2017-11063

In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, as a result of a race condition between two userspace processes that interact with the driver concurrently, a null pointer dereference can potentially occur...