Debian DLA-1207-1 : erlang security update (ROBOT)

An erlang TLS server configured with cipher suites using RSA key exchange, may be vulnerable to an Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext attack AKA Bleichenbacher attack against RSA, which when exploited, may result in plaintext recovery of encrypted messages and/or a Man-in-the-middle MiTM attack, despite...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : postgresql (EulerOS-SA-2017-1341)

According to the versions of the postgresql packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Privilege escalation flaws were found in the initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. An attacker with access to the postgres user account coul...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:3307-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52101 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:3312-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606445 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16939: The XFRM dump policy implementation in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service use-after-free via a crafted SORCVBUF...

New Nessus 7 Professional and the end of cost-effective Vulnerability Management (as we knew it)

It's an epic and really sad news. When people asked me about the cost-effective solution for Vulnerability Management I usually answered: "Nessus Professional with some additional automation through Nessus API". With just a couple of Nessus Professional scanning nodes it was possible to scan all...

Debian DLA-1205-1 : simplesamlphp security update

The simplesamlphp package in wheezy is vulnerable to multiple attacks on authentication-related code, leading to unauthorized access and information disclosure. CVE-2017-12867 The SimpleSAMLAuthTimeLimitedToken class allows attackers with access to a secret token to extend its validity period by...

Debian DLA-1206-1 : tiff security update

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the t2pwritepdf function in tools/tiff2pdf.c. This heap overflow could lead to different damages. For example, a crafted TIFF document can lead to an out-of-bounds read in TIFFCleanup, an invalid free in TIFFClose or t2pfree, memory...

Fedora 25 : firefox (2017-2c15e19fb5)

Update to latest upstream version. 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...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-111)

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - dccpdisconnect set the socket state to DCCPCLOSED but did not properly free some of the resources associated with th...

Oracle Linux 7 : postgresql (ELSA-2017-3402)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3402 advisory. 9.2.23-3 - setup: keep PGSETUP variables after switching to not-privileged user 9.2.23-2 - fix CVE-2017-12172 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : rsync vulnerabilities (USN-3506-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3506-1 advisory. It was discovered that rsync proceeds with certain file metadata updates before checking for a filename. An attacker could use this to bypass...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3510-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3510-1 advisory. Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem XFRM in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:3236-1)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - bsc1068187: Failure to recognize errors in the Populate on Demand PoD code allowed for DoS XSA-246 - bsc1068191: Missing p2m error checking in PoD code allowed unprivileged guests to retain a writable mapping of freed...

Mozilla Thunderbird < 52.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)

The version of Mozilla Thunderbird installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 52.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid105043; scriptversion"1.5";...

[R1] Nessus 6.11.3 Fixes Multiple Third-party Vulnerabilities

Nessus leverages third-party software to help provide underlying functionality. One of the third-party components OpenSSL was found to contain vulnerabilities, and updated versions have been made available by the providers. Out of caution and in line with good practice, Tenable opted to upgrade t...

Oracle Linux 7 : sssd (ELSA-2017-3379)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3379 advisory. 1.15.2-50.8 - Resolves: rhbz1508972 - Accessing IdM kerberos ticket fails while id mapping is applied rhel-7.4.z - Resolves: rhbz1509177 - Race condition betwee...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3490-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3490-1 advisory. Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing-like...

RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2017:3295)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3295 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Securi...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:3178-1)

This update for xen to version 4.7.4 bsc1027519 fixes several issues. This new feature was added : - Support migration of HVM domains larger than 1 TB These security issues were fixed : - bsc1068187: Failure to recognize errors in the Populate on Demand PoD code allowed for DoS XSA-246 -...

Fedora 26 : kernel (2017-f9f3d80442)

The 4.13.16 update contains various fixes across the tree. 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...