The CIO Will Report to the CISO

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MySQL 5.6.x < 5.6.37 Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2017 CPU) (October 2017 CPU)

The version of MySQL running on the remote host is 5.6.x prior to 5.6.37. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An unspecified flaw exists in the Memcached component that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impact integrity and availability. CVE-2017-3633 - Multiple...

CVE-2017-11349

dataTaker DT8x dEX 1.72.007 allows remote attackers to compose programs or schedules, for purposes such as sending e-mail messages or making outbound connections to FTP servers for uploading data...

More on the NSA's Use of Traffic Shaping

"Traffic shaping" -- the practice of tricking data to flow through a particular route on the Internet so it can be more easily surveiled -- is an NSA technique that has gotten much less attention than it deserves. It's a powerful technique that allows an eavesdropper to get access to communicatio...

Microsoft Windows Search Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4024402)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4024402. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 ifdescription...

USN-3323-2: GNU C Library vulnerability

USN-3323-1 fixed a vulnerability in the GNU C Library. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle memory when processing environment variables for setuid programs. A local attacker...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerability (USN-3323-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3323-1 advisory. It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle memory when processing environment variables for setuid programs. A local attacker...

USN-3323-1 eglibc, glibc vulnerability

It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle memory when processing environment variables for setuid programs. A local attacker could use this in combination with another vulnerability to gain administrative privileges...

Microsoft Office Word Viewer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (KB3203427)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB3203427. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 ifdescription...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4022722)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4022722 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 ifdescription...

CVE-2016-7818

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Installers for Specification check program social insurance Ver. 9.00 and earlier, TODOKESHO print program Ver. 5.00 and earlier, Device data encryption program Ver. 1.00 and earlier, and TODOKESHO creation program Ver. 15.00 and earlier available prior to...

Home Web Server 1.9.1 Build 164 Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: Home Web Server 1.9.1 build 164 - CGI Remote Code Execution Date: 26/05/2017 Exploit Author: Guillaume Kaddouch Twitter: @gkweb76 Blog: https://networkfilter.blogspot.com GitHub: https://github.com/gkweb76/exploits Vendor Homepage: http://downstairs.dnsalias.net/ does not exist...

FBI Releases Article on Protecting Business Email Systems

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on Building a Digital Defense with an Email Fortress. FBI warns that scammers commonly target business email accounts with phishing and social engineering schemes. Strategies for preventing email compromises include avoiding the use ...

Home Web Server 1.9.1 (build 164) - Remote Code Execution

Home Web Server 1.9.1 build 164 - Remote Code Execution Exploit Title: Home Web Server 1.9.1 build 164 - CGI Remote Code Execution Date: 26/05/2017 Exploit Author: Guillaume Kaddouch Twitter: @gkweb76 Blog: https://networkfilter.blogspot.com GitHub: https://github.com/gkweb76/exploits Vendor...

Extending the Airplane Laptop Ban

The Department of Homeland Security is rumored to be considering extending the current travel ban on large electronics for Middle Eastern flights to European ones as well. The likely reaction of airlines will be to implement new traveler programs, effectively allowing wealthier and more frequent...

CVE-2017-9047

A buffer overflow was discovered in libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801. The function xmlSnprintfElementContent in valid.c is supposed to recursively dump the element content definition into a char buffer 'buf' of size 'size'. The variable len is assigned strlenbuf. If the content-type is...

CVE-2017-9050

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1839...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9049

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictComputeFastKey function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for libxml2 Bug 759398...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: postgresql-9.5.7-1.fc25

PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system DBM S. The base postgresql package contains the client programs that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server, as well as HTML documentation for the whole system. These client programs can be located on the same machine ...

Shadow Brokers, Who Leaked WannaCry SMB Exploit, Are Back With More 0-Days

The infamous hacking collective Shadow Brokers – the one who leaked the Windows SMB exploit in public that led to last weekend's WannaCrypt menace – are back, this time, to cause more damage. In typically broken English, the Shadow Brokers published a fresh statement with full of frustration a fe...