USN-4006-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Federico Manuel Bento discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly apply Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR in some situations for setuid a.out binaries. A local attacker could use this to improve the chances of exploiting an existing vulnerability in a setuid a.out binary. As a hardeni...

Q&A with Ashley Fidler, Chief Product Officer at eSentire: Women in Cybersecurity

In a few short weeks, Carbon Black will be hosting our annual user conference, CBConnect19, in sunny San Diego. This year, we’re bringing together a group of powerhouse women from across a variety of industries for our annual Women in Cybersecurity Panel to share their knowledge and experience fr...

Fortinet FortiClient 6.2.x < 6.2.1 Missing Encryption Of Sensitive Data Vulnerability (macOS)

The version of Fortinet FortiClient Mac running on the remote host is prior to 6.2.1. It is, therefore, affected by a missing encryption of sensitive data vulnerability. An attacker can access VPN session cookie from an endpoint device running FortiClient. The attacker can steal the cookies only ...

Fortinet FortiClient 6.2.x < 6.2.1 Missing Encryption Of Sensitive Data Vulnerability

The version of Fortinet FortiClient running on the remote host is prior to 6.2.1. It is, therefore, affected by a missing encryption of sensitive data vulnerability. An attacker can access VPN session cookie from an endpoint device running FortiClient. The attacker can steal the cookies only if...

The 5 Conversations I want to have at CB Connect 2019

In a few weeks, I’ll be attending CB Connect in my hometown of San Diego, CA. If you’ve read my earlier blogs, you know I’m passionate about this event because it brings together some of the best and brightest in the security space to network and collaborate on solving some of our industry’s...

Solaris 7/8/9 (SPARC) - 'dtprintinfo' Local Privilege Escalation (2)

/ raptordtprintnamesparc2.c - dtprintinfo 0day, Solaris/SPARC Copyright c 2004-2019 Marco Ivaldi 0day buffer overflow in the dtprintinfo1 CDE Print Viewer, leading to local root. Many thanks to Dave Aitel for discovering this vulnerability and for his interesting research activities on...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4643)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4643 advisory. - x86/mds: Add empty commit for CVE-2019-11091 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 29721848 CVE-2019-11091 - x86/speculation/mds: Make mdsmitigation mutable...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Binutils is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists in the bfdXXbfdcopyprivatebfddatacommon function in peXXigen.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library. An unbounded loop in this function may result in an unwritable memory space by increasing the value of the ed...

CVE-2019-0863

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-05-15 04:00:00+00:00| seen| https://www.govcert.gov.hk/en/alertsdetail.php?id=391 2019-05-15 15:45:13+00:00| exploited| https://t.me/CyberGovIL/451 2019-05-23 15:16:05+00:00| seen| https://t.me/ctinow/11701 2019-07-04 06:07:15+00:00|...

What is VPS Hosting? How Does it Work?

By Owais Sultan VPS hosting is storage space on a server which a service provider allocates, according to the amount you think your website needs. Overall, VPS web hosting lies somewhere in between shared hosting and dedicated hosting. A Virtual Private Server gives you administrative power over...

CVE-2019-2051

In heap of spaces.h, there is a possible out of bounds read due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote information disclosure when processing a proxy auto config file with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Product: Android...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Skin "Inspires" New Thermal Sheeting

Researchers are making space blankets using technology based on squid skin. Honestly, it's hard to tell how much squid is actually involved in this invention. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting...

ASPEED AST-series BMC Vulnerability - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-26252 Potential Impact: Privilege escalation Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2019-6260 Summary Description: An industry-wide vulnerability affecting ASPEED AST-series Baseboard Management Controllers BMCs used in certain servers and...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. It was found that reporting emulation failures to user space could lead to either a local CVE-2014-7842 or a L2-L1 CVE-2010-5313 denial of service. In the case of a local denial of service, an attacker must have access to the MMIO area or be able to acce...

Path Traversal

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service PaaS solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. The following security issues are addressed with this release: An authorization flaw was discovered in Kubernetes; the API server did not...

Sensitive Information Disclosure

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service PaaS solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. The following security issues are addressed with this release: An authorization flaw was discovered in Kubernetes; the API server did not...

Sensitive Information Disclosure

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service PaaS solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. The following security issues are addressed with this release: An authorization flaw was discovered in Kubernetes; the API server did not...

Denial Of Service

OpenStack Compute nova launches and schedules large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances and controlling access...

Improper Access Control

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's floppy driver handled user space provided data in certain error code paths while processing FDRAWCMD IOCTL commands. A local user with write access to /dev/fdX could use this flaw to free using the kfree function arbitrary kernel memory...

XML External Entity (XXE)

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 is a platform for Java applications based on JBoss Application Server 7. Apache CXF is an open source services framework, which is a part of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. It was found that the SecurityTokenService STS, provided as a...