[SECURITY] [DLA 965-1] qemu-kvm security update

Package : qemu-kvm Version : 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u22 CVE ID : CVE-2016-9602 CVE-2017-7377 CVE-2017-7471 CVE-2017-7493 CVE-2017-8086 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution for Linux hosts on x86 hardware with x86 guests based on the Quick EmulatorQemu...

Patching CVE-2017-7494 in Samba: It’s the Circle of Life

With the scent of scorched internet still lingering in the air from the WannaCry Ransomworm, today we see a new scary-and-potentially-incendiary bug hitting the twitter news. The vulnerability - CVE-2017-7494 - affects versions 3.5 released March 1, 2010 and onwards of Samba, the defacto standard...

RHEL 5 : samba3x (RHSA-2017:1272) (SambaCry)

An update for samba3x is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support. 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 fo...

Nextcloud: Shared file link - password protection bypass under certain conditions

Summary An unauthenticated remote attacker can bypass password protection on certain shared file types through the file sharing app's publicpreview.php function. Vulnerable URL http://server/nextcloud/index.php/apps/filessharing/ajax/publicpreview.php?x=width&y=height&t=share ID Description...

Vulnerability warning|Samba remote code execution vulnerability, affecting 7 years ago version-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Samba is a Linux and UNIX system of the SMB Protocol service software, can be achieved with otheroperating system such as: Microsoft Windows operating system, file system, printers and other shared resources. The vulnerability of the earliest influence to the 7 ago version, a hacker can exploit t...

Meterpreter Session Proxy: Metasploit Aggregator

Meterpreter Session Proxy The Metasploit Aggregator is a proxy for Meterpreter sessions. Normally, Meterpreter sessions connect directly to a Metasploit listener. However, this has a few problems: 1. Multiple users cannot easily share the session once it is established, without some sort of...

Newly Found Malware Uses 7 NSA Hacking Tools, Where WannaCry Uses 2

A security researcher has identified a new strain of malware that also spreads itself by exploiting flaws in Windows SMB file sharing protocol, but unlike the WannaCry Ransomware that uses only two leaked NSA hacking tools, it exploits all the seven. Last week, we warned you about multiple hackin...

Cisco Remote Expert Manager Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-08155)

Cisco Remote Expert Manager Software is the United States Cisco Cisco a remote management software. The software remote screen sharing, screen annotation and session recording and other collaborative functions. Cisco Remote Expert Manager Software has an information disclosure vulnerability in th...

Nextcloud: RTLO character allowed in shared files

SUMMARY ------------- Hello, I have notices that you do not properly strip the RTLO right to left override character in the sharing page of the file, thus allowing someone to mask the real extension of a file and if the user downloads, then opens the file something may be executed on his machine...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-3289-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3289-1 advisory. Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to...

USN-3289-1 qemu vulnerabilities

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2017-7377, CVE-2017-8086 Jiangxin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device. A...

CVE-2016-10237

CVE-2016-10237 concerns Android/CAF Linux kernel handling of shared content protection memory, passed as the secure camera memory buffer to a trusted application (TA). The description indicates the TA would not detect the issue and would treat the shared memory as secure, reflecting a mislabeling...

Nextcloud: (Authenticated) RCE by bypassing of the .htaccess blacklist

Storage::copyFromStorage doesn't check the content of a folder it copies against the list of blacklisted files. Meaning that if a user has access to an external storage inc. fed. shares that contains a .htaccess file, he can move the .htaccess file to the local data directory. The attack works on...

WannaCry and the Executive Order

Last week, The White House released its long awaited Executive Order EO, Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, ironically enough during the same week we experienced the largest single ransomware attack that, by some estimates, has affected more than...

Microsoft Issues WanaCrypt Patch for Windows 8, XP

Microsoft Corp. today took the unusual step of issuing security updates to address flaws in older, unsupported versions of Windows -- including Windows XP and Windows 8. The move is a bid to slow the spread of the WanaCrypt ransomware strain that infected tens of thousands of Windows computers...

Project Sonar - Mo' Data, Mo' Research

Since its inception, Rapid7's Project Sonar has aimed to share the data and knowledge we've gained from our Internet scanning and collection activities with the larger information security community. Over the years this has resulted in vulnerability disclosures, research papers, conference...

Lack of Communication Achilles' Heel for Ransomware Fighters

BOSTON—Collaboration is important when it comes to fighting ransomware, but the lack of communication around the issue remains a serious impediment, law enforcement says. “If we don’t know about it and no one keeps track of it, then no one cares,” Frank McLaughlin, a detective with the Boston...

USN-3268-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2016-10028 It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the JAZZ RC4030 device. A privileged attacker...

EdCast - Knowledge Sharing - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application EdCast - Knowledge Sharing published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

CVE-2017-5069

Incorrect MIME type of XSS-Protection reports in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and 58.0.3029.83 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to circumvent Cross-Origin Resource Sharing checks via a crafted HTML page...