postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files

Privilege escalation flaws were found in the Red Hat initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. An attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine...

postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files

Privilege escalation flaws were found in the Red Hat initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. An attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine...

Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities

The startup log file for the postmaster in newer releases, "postgres" process was opened while the process was still owned by root. With this setup, the database owner could specify a file that they did not have access to and cause the file to be corrupted with logged data CVE-2017-12172. Crash d...

CVE-2017-12172

PostgreSQL 10.x before 10.1, 9.6.x before 9.6.6, 9.5.x before 9.5.10, 9.4.x before 9.4.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.20, and 9.2.x before 9.2.24 runs under a non-root operating system account, and database superusers have effective ability to run arbitrary code under that system account. PostgreSQL provid...

How can I tell if my PC is infected?

4 signs your PC might be infected with malware – by Brook Stein, Director of Product Management Years ago, computer hackers would brag about how many PCs they infected as a means of showing off their programming skills. They created newsworthy viruses with names like the "ILOVEYOU" or “Anna...

SAP KERNEL SAP Startup Service URL Redirection Vulnerability

SAP KERNEL is a set of basic technology platforms written in C by SAP. The platform is the support platform between the bottom layer and the business layer.32 NUC and so on are different versions of it.SAP Startup Service is one of the SAP startup services. A URL redirection vulnerability exists ...

Splunk Startup Script Local User Privilege Gain Vulnerability

Splunk is the engine of machine data. A local user privilege acquisition vulnerability exists in the Splunk startup script, which can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system...

Lenovo E95 and ThinkCentre M710s/M710t Unauthorized Vulnerability

The Lenovo E95 and ThinkCentre M710s/M710t are both desktop computers from the Chinese company Lenovo Lenovo. A security vulnerability exists in the Lenovo E95 and ThinkCentre M710s/M710t, which arises from a program that fails to adequately protect the system boot process. An attacker could...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Michal Pal

We continue our articles focusing on the themes of National Cyber Security Awareness Month with the first of a series of articles spotlighting some of the women who work at Imperva. I spoke to Michal Pal, automation group manager for the Imperva Incapsula product line and got to know about what...

OSXAuditor - Free Mac OS X Computer Forensics Tool

OS X Auditor is a free Mac OS X computer forensics tool. OS X Auditor parses and hashes the following artifacts on the running system or a copy of a system you want to analyze: the kernel extensions the system agents and daemons the third party's agents and daemons the old and deprecated system a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12621

During Jelly xml file parsing with Apache Xerces, if a custom doctype entity is declared with a "SYSTEM" entity with a URL and that entity is used in the body of the Jelly file, during parser instantiation the parser will attempt to connect to said URL. This could lead to XML External Entity XXE...

Behavior of VM.xenstore_data

Summary This article describes the behavior ofVM.xenstoredata. This behavior might affect customers who use thexenstore-data parameter of a Virtual Machine VM, especially those customers who are writing software that interacts with XenServer and uses this parameter. Behavior of VM.xenstoredata If...

Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring: Stacer

System optimizer apps are quite the thing on platforms such as Windows and Android. Their usefulness, however, is debatable considering how notorious they are when it comes to using system resources. Stacer was created to better optimize your Linux PC in the sense that it packs quite the list of...

Information disclosure

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 prior to 6.5 U1 contains an information disclosure issue due to the service startup script using world writable directories as temporary storage for critical information. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to access certain critical...

CVE-2017-4922

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 prior to 6.5 U1 contains an information disclosure issue due to the service startup script using world writable directories as temporary storage for critical information. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to access certain critical...

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 < 6.5 U1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2017-0013)

The version of VMware vCenter Server Appliance installed on the remote host is 6.5 prior to 6.5 Update 1 6.5 U1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An insecure library loading issue exists due to the use of the LDLIBRARYPATH variable to look for specific files or libraries...

CVE-2017-1382

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 might create files using the default permissions instead of the customized permissions when custom startup scripts are used. A local attacker could exploit this to gain access to files with an unknown impact. IBM X-Force ID: 127153...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 might create files using the default permissions instead of the customized permissions when custom startup scripts are used. A local attacker could exploit this to gain access to files with an unknown impact. IBM X-Force ID: 127153...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11565

debian/tor.init in the Debian tor0.2.9.11-1deb9u1 package for Tor was designed to execute aa-exec from the standard system pathname if the apparmor package is installed, but implements this incorrectly with a wrong assumption that the specific pathname would remain the same forever, which allows...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5300

The panicgate check in NTP before 4.2.8p5 is only re-enabled after the first change to the system clock that was greater than 128 milliseconds by default, which allows remote attackers to set NTP to an arbitrary time when started with the -g option, or to alter the time by up to 900 seconds...