QNAP Working on Patches for OpenSSL Flaws Affecting its NAS Devices

Network-attached storage NAS appliance maker QNAP said it's currently investigating two recently patched security flaws in OpenSSL to determine their potential impact, adding it will release security updates should its products turn out to be vulnerable. Tracked as CVE-2021-3711 CVSS score: 7.5 a...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2021:3320)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3320 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: race condition for removal of...

PC Wireless Wi-Fi Adapter Driver Security Updates August 2021

Wireless Wi-Fi vendors have informed HP of potential security vulnerabilities identified in some of their wireless PC adapters which may allow escalation of privilege and information disclosure. These industry-wide vulnerabilities are known as FragAttacks fragmentation and aggregation attacks...

Photon OS 2.0: Nxtgn PHSA-2021-2.0-0383

An update of the nxtgn package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-2.0-0383. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc...

Photon OS 4.0: Cpio PHSA-2021-4.0-0089

An update of the cpio package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-4.0-0089. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc...

Vulnerabilities fixed in XStream

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in XStream. A malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service or execute arbitrary code with the application's permissions. The vulnerabilities are exploitable only when using use of the default XStream blacklist...

Microsoft Breaks Silence on Barrage of ProxyShell Attacks

Microsoft has broken its silence on the recent barrage of attacks on several ProxyShell vulnerabilities in that were highlighted by a researcher at Black Hat earlier this month. The company released an advisory late Wednesday letting customers know that threat actors may use unpatched Exchange...

VMware Issues Patches to Fix New Flaws Affecting Multiple Products

VMware on Wednesday shipped security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products that could be potentially exploited by an attacker to take control of an affected system. The six security weaknesses from CVE-2021-22022 through CVE-2021-22027, CVSS scores: 4.4 - 8.6 affect VMware...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Cisco products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. CISA encourages...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Cisco NX-OS

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Cisco NX-OS. A malicious person could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service cause. Both vulnerabilities are not exploitable with standard configuration. exploited. For the vulnerability with CVE attribute CVE-2021-1588 requires tha...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Missing error handling in bhyve(8) device models (a6d5d4c1-0564-11ec-b69d-4062311215d5)

Certain VirtIO-based device models failed to handle errors when fetching I/O descriptors. Such errors could be triggered by a malicious guest. As a result, the device model code could be tricked into operating on uninitialized I/O vectors, leading to memory corruption. Impact : A malicious guest...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches that operate in Application Centric Infrastructure ACI mode. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious party to perform attacks execute attacks that result in the following categories of damage: Denial-of-Service DoS Access to...

Vulnerabilities fixed in VMware vRealize

VMware has fixed vulnerabilities in vRealize. A malicious person with access to the vRealize Operations Manager API could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities potentially exploit them to obtain sensitive data via accessing log files and arbitrary files, potentially possibly taking over a user...

VMware Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products 

VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0018 and apply the necessary...

Oracle Java SE Security Updates - 03 - (cpujul2020) - Linux

Oracle Java SE is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

Oracle Java SE Security Updates - 01 - (cpujul2020) - Windows

Oracle Java SE is prone to a security vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

Oracle Java SE Security Updates - 05 - (cpujul2020) - Windows

Oracle Java SE is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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-2021-31010

A deserialization issue was addressed through improved validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2021-005 Catalina, iOS 12.5.5, iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8, macOS Big Sur 11.6, watchOS 7.6.2. A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions. Apple was aware of a report tha...

CVE-2021-30883

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.0.2 and iPadOS 15.0.2, macOS Monterey 12.0.1, iOS 14.8.1 and iPadOS 14.8.1, tvOS 15.1, watchOS 8.1, macOS Big Sur 11.6.1. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privilege...

CVE-2021-30857

CVE-2021-30857 is a local kernel race-condition vulnerability in Apple’s kernel. The description indicates it could allow a malicious app to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The initial document notes a fix was included in multiple updates: macOS Big Sur 11.6, iOS 14.8 / iPadOS 14.8...