by CIRT Team
Symantec Messaging Gateway CVE-2017-6326 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description: The Symantec Messaging Gateway can encounter an issue of remote code execution, which describes a situation whereby an individual may obtain the ability to execute commands remotely on a target machine or in a target process. Impact: Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.Versions prior to Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.6.3-266 are vulnerable. Mitigation: Updates are available. Please check...
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by CIRT Team
Microsoft Windows Express Compressed Fonts CVE-2017-8691 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description: Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 allow an attacker to execute code remotely on a target system when the Windows font library fails to properly handle specially crafted embedded fonts, aka “Express Compressed Fonts Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.” Impact: An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of an affected system. Failed exploit attempts...
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by CIRT Team
Linux Kernel CVE-2017-1000379 Local Security Bypass Vulnerability
Description: The Linux Kernel running on AMD64 systems will sometimes map the contents of PIE executable, the heap or ld.so to where the stack is mapped allowing attackers to more easily manipulate the stack. Linux Kernel version 4.11.5 is affected. Impact: Attackers can exploit this issue to bypass certain security restrictions and perform unauthorized actions. Linux Kernel 4.11.5 is vulnerable; other versions may also be...
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by CIRT Team
Linux kernel CVE-2017-12762 Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Description: In /drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c: A user-controlled buffer is copied into a local buffer of constant size using strcpy without a length check which can cause a buffer overflow. This affects the Linux kernel 4.9-stable tree, 4.12-stable tree, 3.18-stable tree, and 4.4-stable tree. Impact: Successful exploits may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in context of the application. Failed exploits may result in denial-of-service conditions. Mitigation: Updates...
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by CIRT Team
Linux Kernel CVE-2017-7558 Multiple Local Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
Description: A kernel data leak due to an out-of-bound read was found in Linux kernel in inet_diag_msg_sctp{,l}addr_fill() and sctp_get_sctp_info() functions present since v4.7-rc1 upto v4.13 including. A data leak happens when these functions fill in sockaddr data structures used to export socket’s diagnostic information. As a result upto 100 bytes of the slab data could be leaked to a userspace. Impact: Local attackers can exploit...
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by CIRT Team
NfSen CVE-2017-6972 Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerability
Description: AlienVault USM and OSSIM before 5.3.7 and NfSen before 1.3.8 have an error in privilege dropping and unnecessarily execute the NfSen Perl code as root, aka AlienVault ID ENG-104945, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-6970 and CVE-2017-6971. Impact: Remote attackers can exploit this issue to bypass certain security restrictions and perform unauthorized actions. Mitigation: Updates are available. Please check specific vendor advisory for more information....
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CVE-2017-7874: Linux Kernel 4.8.0 UDEV < 232 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description: udevd in udev 232, when the Linux kernel 4.8.0 is used, does not properly verify the source of a Netlink message, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging access to the NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT family, and the presence of the /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules file, to provide a crafted REMOVE_CMD value. Impact: Local attackers may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. Mitigation:...
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by CIRT Team
Nagios CVE-2016-8641 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description: A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in nagios that occurs in daemon-init.in when creating necessary files and insecurely changing the ownership afterwards. It’s possible for the local attacker to create symbolic links before the files are to be created and possibly escalating the privileges with the ownership change. Impact: A local attacker may exploit this issue to gain elevated root privileges on the affected...
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Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Description: The vulnerabilities are due to a buffer overflow condition in the SNMP subsystem of the affected software. The vulnerabilities affect all versions of SNMP – Versions 1, 2c, and 3. To exploit these vulnerabilities via SNMP Version 2c or earlier, the attacker must know the SNMP read-only community string for the affected system. To exploit these vulnerabilities via SNMP Version 3, the attacker must...
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by CIRT Team
ISC BIND CVE-2017-3143 Security Bypass Vulnerability
Description: BIND is open source software that enables you to publish your Domain Name System (DNS) information on the Internet, and to resolve DNS queries for your users. An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name for the zone and service being targeted may be able to manipulate BIND...
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