CentOS Update for procps-ng CESA-2018:1700 centos7

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CentOS 7 : procps-ng (CESA-2018:1700)

An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

Procps-ng - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Qualys Security Advisory Procps-ng Audit Report ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary 1. FUSE-backed /proc/PID/cmdline 2. Unprivileged process hiding 3. Local Privilege...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.33 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.33 includes the release for CertView, plus updates and new features for AssetView, Cloud Agent, EC2 Connector, Security Assessment Questionnaire, Web Application Scanning, and Web Application Firewall, highlights as follows. This posting has bee...

procps security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:1700 An update for procps-ng is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 severi...

QSC 2018 Mumbai Finds Qualys at the Forefront of Digital Transformation Security

Qualys Security Conference 2018, held in Mumbai on May 10, fortified Qualys’ stand as the leader in securing Digital Transformation in the current global IT landscape. In his keynote, “Our Journey into the Cloud: The Qualys Platform and Architecture”, Qualys Vice President of Product Management...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Oracle Linux 7 : procps-ng (ELSA-2018-1700)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-1700 advisory. - Related: CVE-2018-1124 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has n...

Debian DSA-4208-1 : procps - security update

The Qualys Research Labs discovered multiple vulnerabilities in procps, a set of command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2018-1122 top read its configuration from the current working...

Procps-ng Audit Report

Qualys Security Advisory Procps-ng Audit Report ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary 1. FUSE-backed /proc/PID/cmdline 2. Unprivileged process hiding 3. Local Privilege...

DevSecOps: Practical Steps to Seamlessly Integrate Security into DevOps

To properly and effectively protect DevOps pipelines, organizations can’t blindly apply conventional security processes they’ve used for traditional network perimeters. Since DevOps’ value is the speed and frequency with which code is created, updated and deployed, security must be re-thought so...

Libuser - 'roothelper' Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Libuser roothelper Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module attempts to gain root privileges on Red Hat based Linux systems, includi...

Libuser roothelper Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module attempts to gain root privileges on Red Hat based Linux systems, including RHEL, Fedora and CentOS, by exploiting a newline injection vulnerability in libuser and userhelper versions prior to 0.56.13-8 and version 0.60 before 0.60-7. This Metasploit module makes use of the...

Libuser roothelper Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Libuser roothelper Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module attempts to gain root privileges on Red Hat based Linux systems, includi...

Gaining Control over Your Digital Certificates

Digital certificate management is in an inadequate state at most organizations, a serious problem, considering that SSL/TLS certificates are critical for a host of e-business functions. “If you’re doing something on the Internet, you’re using SSL,” Asif Karel, a Qualys Director of Product...

Orangeworm Targeting Healthcare Industry since 2015 Now Exposed

Operating since 2015, a threat group dubbed Orangeworm has been newly attributed to hacking and infiltrating healthcare groups around the world. Companies specifically targeted include hospitals, healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals, IT services firms serving the healthcare industry, and more...

Qualys WAS Introduces Swagger Support for REST API Security Testing

In the world of application security, testing REST APIs for security flaws is important because APIs can have many of the same application-layer vulnerabilities as browser-based web applications. Examples are SQL injection, command injection, and remote code execution. With the recent release of...

Qualys: Cloud Security Must Move Towards ‘Transparent Orchestration’

What does the “My Little Pony” television series and cyber security have in common? Ask Qualys Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar. Whenever his 7-year old daughter wanted to see an episode of this show, the process involved multiple steps: Turning on the smart TV, scrolling through the app menu,...

Indication of Compromise: Another Key Practice for GDPR Compliance

In this ongoing blog series on preparing for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, we’ve explained the importance of having solid, foundational security practices like asset management and threat prioritization. Today, we’ll discuss how another such practice can help...

Call For Customer Presentations at Black Hat USA 2018!

Tell your security story to your peers at Black Hat USA 2018! Qualys is looking for customers excited to share their security and DevSecOps successes, best practices for building security into modern enterprises and case studies leveraging the use of the Qualys Cloud Platform. Take the stage in t...