Month: October 2018

Technical Report on Container Security (I)

October 31, 2018

Overview

In recent years, the cloud computing model has gradually been universally recognized and accepted in the industry. In China, sectors such as governments, finance, carriers, and energy as well as small and medium-size organizations, to varying degrees, have migrated their business to the cloud. However, just turning hosts, platforms, or applications into virtual form cannot solve their legacy issues such as slow upgrade, clumsy architecture, and no support for rapid iteration. Then the concept of cloud native comes into being. (more…)

Week in review: Top cyber attack sources, serverless botnets, CFO as best cybersecurity friend

October 28, 2018

Help Net Security – Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Repairnator bot finds software bugs, successfully submits patches Can a bot create valid, high-quality fixes for software bugs more rapidly than a human can, and get them accepted by human developers and permanently merged in the code base? […]

LIVE NETWORKS LIVE555 Streaming Media RTSP Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2018-4013) Threat Alert

October 26, 2018

Overview

Recently, the TALOS team disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-4013). This vulnerability exists in the HTTP packet parsing functionality of the LIVE555 RTSP server library. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted packet, resulting in code execution. (more…)

FreeRTOS Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Threat Alert

October 25, 2018

Overview

Recently, researchers from Zimperium disclosed 13 critical vulnerabilities in FreeRTOS, including four remote code execution vulnerabilities. (more…)

Drupal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Threat Alert

October 24, 2018

Overview

Recently, Drupal released an official security advisory to announce the fixes for multiple security issues, including two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities which affect Drupal 7 and 8.

The two critical vulnerabilities are described as follows: (more…)

libssh Server-Side Identity Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2018-10933)Threat Alert

October 23, 2018

Overview

On October 16, local time, libssh officially released an update to fix the server-side identity authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2018-10933) existing in libssh 0.6 and later versions. By presenting the server an SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_SUCCESS message in place of the SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST message which the server would expect to initiate authentication, the attacker could successfully authenticate without any credentials. (more…)

WebLogic Remote Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2018-3191)Threat Alert

October 23, 2018

Overview

On October 17, Beijing time, Oracle officially released a Critical Patch Update (CPU), which contains a fix for the critical WebLogic remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-3191). This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers with network access via T3 to compromise vulnerable Oracle WebLogic Server. Successful exploitation of it can result in takeover of Oracle WebLogic Server, hence remote code execution.

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USA and China identified as top cyber attack sources

October 22, 2018

Help Net Security – NSFOCUS released its H1 Cybersecurity Insights report, which analyzed traffic from January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018. Since the end of March, the number of crypto mining activities has risen sharply compared to the beginning of 2018. Among all crypto miners, WannaMine was the most active, responsible for more than […]

WebLogic Remote Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2018-3245) Threat Alert

October 22, 2018

Overview

On October 16, local time (early morning on October 17, Beijing time), Oracle officially released the October (third quarter) Critical Patch Update (CPU), which fixes a July (second quarter) CPU patch. The WebLogic remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-2893) has not been fully fixed. The newly fixed vulnerability is assigned CVE-2018-3245. (more…)

Oracle October 2018 Critical Patch Update for All Product Families Threat Alert

October 22, 2018

Overview

On October 16, 2018, local time, Oracle released its quarterly security advisory of the Critical Patch Update (CPU) for the third quarter. The CPU fixes 301 vulnerabilities of varying severity levels across the product families. For details about affected products and available patches, see the appendix. (more…)

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