Major OS Players Misinterpret Intel Docs, and Now Kernels Can Be Hijacked

Multiple operating system vendors issued coordinated patches this week to address a common vulnerability across their platforms, which was introduced thanks to widespread misinterpretation of Intel developer documentation. According to the CERT/CC team, most major players including Apple, FreeBSD...

SUSE-SU-2018:1171-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-1087: And an unprivileged KVM guest user could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges inside a guest. bsc1087088 - CVE-2018-8897: An...

Information Security Preparedness Tool: Metta

Metta is an open-source information security preparedness tool for adversarial simulation. As an emerging concept, the industry has yet to settle on a definitive definition of adversarial simulation, but it involves simulating components of targeted attacks in order to test both an organization’s...

Welcome Our New CMO, Renata Budko

By Ivan Novikov We have ended 2017 with an oomph — having record revenues, on-boarding new marquee Fortune 500 customers and forging new partnerships. We are also growing our team and I would like to welcome Renata Budko joining us as our new Chief Marketing Officer. We’re really excited to have...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2018-001

This module enables content editors to create complex pages and layouts on the fly without the help from a developer, using reusable widgets. The module does not sufficiently filter values posted to its AJAX endpoint, which leads to the instantiation of an arbitrary PHP class. This vulnerability ...

Stacks - Critical - Arbitrary PHP code execution - SA-CONTRIB-2018-001

This module enables content editors to create complex pages and layouts on the fly without the help from a developer, using reusable widgets. The module does not sufficiently filter values posted to its AJAX endpoint, which leads to the instantiation of an arbitrary PHP class. This vulnerability ...

Graphite2 - GlyphCache::Loader Heap Based Overreads

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=751 The following crashes due to two different heap-based buffer overreads can be observed in an ASAN build of the standard Graphite2 gr2FontTest utility git trunk, triggered with...

xen-kernel -- Information leak through XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo

The Xen Project reports: The handler for XENDOMCTLgettscinfo failed to initialize a padding field subsequently copied to guest memory. A similar leak existed in XENSYSCTLgetdomaininfolist, which is being addressed here regardless of that operation being declared unsafe for disaggregation by XSA-7...

OpenSSL Security Audit Ready to Start

Funding from the Core Infrastructure Initiative has helped the maintainers of OpenSSL, one of the Internet’s most-deployed pieces of open source software, begin to get the crypto implementation on its feet. Despite its ubiquity, OpenSSL has historically been under-funded and under-resourced, thou...

FreeBSD 2.x,HP-UX 9/10/11,kernel 2.0.3,Windows NT 4.0/Server 2003,NetBSD 1 loopback (land.c) DoS (3)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2666/info A number of TCP/IP stacks are vulnerable to a loopback condition initiated by sending a TCP SYN packet with the source address and port spoofed to equal the destination source and port. When a packet of this sor...

FreeBSD 2.x,HP-UX 9/10/11,kernel 2.0.3,Windows NT 4.0/Server 2003,NetBSD 1 loopback (land.c) DoS (5)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2666/info A number of TCP/IP stacks are vulnerable to a loopback condition initiated by sending a TCP SYN packet with the source address and port spoofed to equal the destination source and port. When a packet of this sor...

FreeBSD 2.x,HP-UX 9/10/11,kernel 2.0.3,Windows NT 4.0/Server 2003,NetBSD 1 loopback (land.c) DoS (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2666/info A number of TCP/IP stacks are vulnerable to a loopback condition initiated by sending a TCP SYN packet with the source address and port spoofed to equal the destination source and port. When a packet of this sor...

Windows 95/98,Windows NT Enterprise Server <= 4.0 SP5,Windows NT Terminal Server <= 4.0 SP4,Windows NT Workstation <= 4.0 SP5 (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/514/info The Windows 98 and Windows 2000 TCP/IP stacks were not built to reliably tolerate malformed IGMP headers. When one is received, the stack will sometimes fail with unpredictable results ranging from a Blue Screen ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6426

The cloudformation-compatible API in OpenStack Orchestration API Heat before Havana 2013.2.1 and Icehouse before icehouse-2 does not properly enforce policy rules, which allows local in-instance users to bypass intended access restrictions and 1 create a stack via the CreateStack method or 2 upda...

Fedora 18 : zfs-fuse-0.7.0-10.fc18 (2013-3425)

Correct executable stacks in some binaries. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora 17 : zfs-fuse-0.7.0-3.fc17 (2013-3382)

Correct executable stacks in some binaries. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Webwork direct method invocation can bypass validatingStack through Action aliases

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-27294. panel WebWork supports the concept of action aliases, which allow a single action class to serve requests mapping to...

Webwork direct method invocation can bypass validatingStack through Action aliases

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding bug report|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-27294. panel WebWork supports the concept of action aliases, which allow a single action class to serve requests mapping to...

Webwork direct method invocation can bypass validatingStack through Action aliases

WebWork supports the concept of action aliases, which allow a single action class to serve requests mapping to different names. This allows a developer to reuse the same action logic, but provide different results based on interceptors. When an action is invoked, Webwork will typically call its...

IPComp - encapsulation Kernel Memory Corruption

// source: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-April/080031.html BSD derived RFC3173 IPComp encapsulation will expand arbitrarily nested payload ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gruezi, this document describes CVE-2011-1547. RFC31...