January 4, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Scrabble” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 4, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Ransomware: The Problem...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : firefox (EulerOS-SA-2017-1327)

According to the version of the firefox package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A privacy flaw was discovered in Firefox. In Private Browsing mode, a web worker could write persistent data to IndexedDB, which was not cleared wh...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2017-1366)

This update for MozillaFirefox to 52.5.2esr fixes the following issue : - CVE-2017-7843: Web worker in Private Browsing mode can write IndexedDB data boo1072034, bmo1410106, MFSA 2017-28 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin we...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package firefox-esr version 52.5.2-alt1

Dec. 10, 2017 Andrey Cherepanov 52.5.2-alt1 - New ESR version 52.5.2 - Fixes: + CVE-2017-7843 Web worker in Private Browsing mode can write IndexedDB data - Build with DBUS support ALT 34302...

Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 52.5.2 — Mozilla

A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements using Direct 3D 9 with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content. This is due to an incorrect value being passed within the library during checks and results in a potentially exploitable crash. Note: This attack only affects...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (b7e23050-2d5d-4e61-9b48-62e89db222ca)

Mozilla Foundation reports : CVE-2017-7843: Web worker in Private Browsing mode can write IndexedDB data CVE-2017-7844: Visited history information leak through SVG image %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fro...

Mozilla: Web worker in Private Browsing mode can write IndexedDB data

A privacy flaw was discovered in Firefox. In Private Browsing mode, a web worker could write persistent data to IndexedDB, which was not cleared when exiting and would persist across multiple sessions. A malicious website could exploit the flaw to bypass private-browsing protections and uniquely...

PT-2017-17945

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.5.2 Firefox versions prior to 57.0.1 Description The issue allows a web worker to write persistent data to IndexedDB when Private Browsing mode is used, enabling user fingerprinting. IndexedDB should be...

Mozilla Firefox Security Bypass Vulnerability (MFSA2017-27) - Mac OS X

Mozilla Firefox is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";...

CVE-2017-7843

A privacy flaw was discovered in Firefox. In Private Browsing mode, a web worker could write persistent data to IndexedDB, which was not cleared when exiting and would persist across multiple sessions. A malicious website could exploit the flaw to bypass private-browsing protections and uniquely...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: CVE-2017-7843: Web worker in Private Browsing mode can write IndexedDB data CVE-2017-7844: Visited history information leak through SVG image...

PT-2017-4039

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 59 Description The issue is related to a shared worker created from a "data:" URL in one tab being shared by another tab with a different origin, which bypasses the same-origin policy. This allows a remote attacker to...

PT-2017-3687

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Firefox versions prior to 58 Description: A use-after-free issue can occur when a Web Worker thread is freed from memory prematurely, instead of from the main thread memory, while cancelling fetch operations. This can potentially lead to a...

Distributed File Analysis Framework: Assemblyline

Assemblyline is a scalable distributed file analysis framework . It is designed to process millions of files per day but can also be installed on a single box. Canada’s electronic spy agency says it is taking the “unprecedented step” of releasing one of its own cyber defence tools to the public, ...

PT-2017-3683

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 58 Description: The issue is related to the implementation of the style editor component in the Developer Tools of Mozilla Firefox, which can allow traffic to be routed through a Service Worker. This can lead...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7793

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the Fetch API when the worker or the associated window are freed when still in use, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox 56, Firefox ESR 52.4, and Thunderbird 52.4...

Aerospike Database Server Fabric-Worker Socket-Loop Denial-of-Service Vulnerability(CVE-2016-9049)

Summary An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the fabric-worker component of Aerospike Database Server 3.10.0.3. A specially crafted packet can cause the server process to dereference a null pointer. An attacker can simply connect to a TCP port in order to trigger this...

Registration Request For Worker Was Rejected Due To An Unknown Error

New machines added to the XenDesktop Site failed to register. From the VDA Application logs it was found that the VDA wasdiscovering the Delivery Controller. On the Delivery Controller the below error is logged in the Application Event logs from Citrix Broker Service : Registration request for...

CVE-2017-9799

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm 1.x before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure...

Code injection

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm 1.x before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure...