Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Apport vulnerabilities (USN-3480-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3480-1 advisory. Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled core dumps for setuid binaries. A local attacker could use this issue to perform a deni...

Fedora 25 : lame (2017-38830f1443)

Update to 3.100 1470202, 1505107 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 703...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2017-3200)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3200 advisory. - net packet: fix tpreserve race in packetsetring Stefano Brivio 1481941 1481943 CVE-2017-1000111 - net packet: fix overflow in check for tpframenr...

Tenable SecurityCenter OpenSSL 1.0.2 < 1.0.2m Multiple Vulnerabilities

The Tenable SecurityCenter application installed on the remote host is missing a security patch. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the bundled version of OpenSSL. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid104639; scriptversion"1.7";...

Tenable SecurityCenter PHP < 5.6.32 PCRE DoS

The Tenable SecurityCenter application installed on the remote host is missing a security patch. It is, therefore, affected by a PCRE denial of service vulnerability in the bundled version of PHP. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid104640;...

PHP 7.0.x < 7.0.25 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of PHP running on the remote web server is 7.0.x prior to 7.0.25. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid104632;...

Virtuozzo 7 : wpa_supplicant (VZLSA-2017-2907)

An update for wpasupplicant is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 for each vulnerability...

Fedora 25 : libgcrypt (2017-8cd171f540)

Minor security update release 1.7.9. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

[R1] SecurityCenter 5.6.0.1 Fixes Multiple Third-party Vulnerabilities

SecurityCenter leverages third-party software to help provide underlying functionality. Two of the third-party components PHP and OpenSSL were found to contain vulnerabilities, and updated versions have been made available by the providers. Out of caution and in line with good practice, Tenable...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2017:2872-2)

This update for MozillaFirefox and mozilla-nss fixes the following issues: Mozilla Firefox was updated to ESR 52.4 bsc1060445 - MFSA 2017-22/CVE-2017-7825: OS X fonts render some Tibetan and Arabic unicode characters as spaces - MFSA 2017-22/CVE-2017-7805: Use-after-free in TLS 1.2 generating...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Perl vulnerabilities (USN-3478-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3478-1 advisory. Jakub Wilk discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash,...

Debian DLA-1169-1 : postgresql-common security update

A security vulnerability has been found in postgresql-common, Debian's PostgreSQL database cluster management tools. CVE-2017-8806 It was discovered that the pgctlcluster, pgcreatecluster and pgupgradecluster commands handled symbolic links insecurely which could result in local denial of service...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2017:2971-1)

This update for samba fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-12163: Prevent client short SMB1 write from writing server memory to file, leaking information from the server to the client bsc1058624. - CVE-2017-12150: Always enforce smb signing when it is configured...

Vulnerability Management vendors and massive Malware attacks (following the Bad Rabbit)

After the latest Bad Rabbit ransomware attack all Top VM vendors Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7 wrote blog posts on this topic on the same day. Two days later Tripwire also published own review. Why do they care? They do not make antiviruses, endpoint protection or firewalls - the common tools against...

Study Vulnerability Assessment in Tenable University for free

Not so long ago, Tenable presented renewed online training platform - Tenable University. It is publicly available even for non-customers, for example, for Nessus Home users. However, not all courses are available in this case. I decided to check it out, registering as non-customer. Logged in...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2017:2949-1)

This update for ImageMagick fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-15033: A denial of service attack memory leak was fixed in ReadYUVImage in coders/yuv.c bsc1061873 - CVE-2017-11446: An infinite loop in ReadPESImage was fixed. bsc1049379 - CVE-2017-12433: A memory leak in...

Debian DLA-1165-1 : libpam4j security update

It was discovered that libpam4j, a Java binding for libpam.so, does not call pamacctmgmt. As a consequence, the PAM account is not properly verified. Any user with a valid password but with deactivated or disabled account was able to log in. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed i...

Debian DLA-1164-1 : mupdf security update

Two security issues were discovered in mupdf, a lightweight PDF viewer. CVE-2017-14687 MuPDF allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .xps file. This occurs because of mishandling of XML tag name comparisons. CVE-2017-15587 An integer...

Fedora 26 : community-mysql (2017-50c790aaed)

A quarter year regular dose of fixed CVE's. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-20.html . rhbz1497694 : Fix owner and perms on log file in post script CVE fixes: rhbz1503701 CVE-2017-10155 CVE-2017-10227 CVE-2017-10268 CVE-2017-10276 CVE-2017-10279 CVE-2017-10283 CVE-2017-102...

Debian DLA-1162-1 : apr security update

It was discovered that there was an out-of-bounds memory vulnerability in apr, a support/portability library for various applications. When the aprexptime or aprosexptime functions were invoked with an invalid month field value, out of bounds memory may have been be accessed when converting this...