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...

Debian DLA-1160-1 : wordpress security update

WordPress, a web blogging tool, was affected by an issue where $wpdb-prepare can create unexpected and unsafe queries leading to potential SQL injection SQLi in plugins and themes, as demonstrated by a 'double prepare' approach, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14723. For Debian 7 'Wheezy'...

Fedora 25 : seamonkey (2017-6e2071419d)

Update to 2.49.1 Based on the Firefox/Thunderbird ESR extension support release code version 52.4.0 Fixes various security issues, see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-e sr/ and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbi rd/ for more...

Tenable SecurityCenter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Tenable SecurityCenter is a Nessus-inclusive vulnerability management platform from US-based Tenable Network Security. The platform simplifies vulnerability scanning, management and reporting and provides a console to manage policies, alerts, reports and plug-ins for Nessus. An SQL injection...

Apple TV < 11.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of Apple TV on the remote device is prior to 11.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as described in the HT208219 security advisory. Note that only 4th and 5th generation models are affected by these vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : LibreOffice vulnerabilities (USN-3472-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3472-1 advisory. Marcin Noga discovered that LibreOffice incorrectly handled PPT documents. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPT document, a remote...

Oracle Linux 7 : liblouis (ELSA-2017-3111)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3111 advisory. 2.5.2-11 - Resolves: CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13741, CVE-2017-13742, CVE-2017-13743, CVE-2017-13744, CVE-2014-8184 Tenable has extracte...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3635)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3635 advisory. - scsi: scsitransportiscsi: fix the issue that iscsiifrx doesn't parse nlmsg properly Xin Long Orabug: 26988633 CVE-2017-14489 - ipv6: avoid overfl...

Tenable SecurityCenter 5.5.0 <= 5.5.2 SQLi (TNS-2017-13)

According to its self-reported version, the Tenable SecurityCenter application installed on the remote host is affected by a SQL injection flaw. Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number. TRUSTED...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (EulerOS-SA-2017-1273)

According to the versions of the java-1.7.0-openjdk packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Hotspot. Supported versions that are affect...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Quagga vulnerabilities (USN-3471-1)

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-3471-1 advisory. Andreas Jaggi discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain BGP UPDATE messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to caus...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3470-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3470-1 advisory. Qian Zhang discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the tipcmsgbuild function in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use to cause a denial of...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-3468-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3468-3 advisory. It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly bound guest IRQs. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : git (EulerOS-SA-2017-1265)

According to the version of the git packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - Git before 2.10.5, 2.11.x before 2.11.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.5, 2.13.x before 2.13.6, and 2.14.x before 2.14.2 uses unsafe Perl scripts to support...