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Unknown vulnerability Found Affecting Intel CPUs – 5th Mar 2019
Preface: So called Spoilter, a vulnerability given by Intel CPU design limitation. If hacker successful exploit such vulnerability. They can conduct “Rowhammer” attack for privileges escalation. Vulnerability detail: The speculative execution function of Intel’s processors aim to increase the performance of a CPU. Meanwhile it caused Intel CPU vulnerability issues in the past. A new…
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Former vulnerability (CVE-2018-20033 (flexnet_publisher) ) – But enterprise firm must be vigilant! vigilant!
Preface: FlexNet Publisher (formerly known as FLEXlm) is a software license manager from Flexera Software which implements license management and is intended to be used in corporate environments to provide floating licenses to multiple end users of computer software. Vulnerability background: The design weakness found on 2018. But the official announcement was release on 2019-01-28.…
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About Node.js vulnerabilities – Mar 2019
Preface: Node.js is popular in technology world. No matter crypto or distributed ledger platform, Docker development, REST API…etc can deploy by node.js. About node.js? Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that processes incoming requests in a loop, called the event loop (initialization and callbacks) and offers a Worker Pool to handle expensive tasks like file…
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CVE-2019-6690: Improper Input Validation in python-gnupg
Preface: Python provides the essential programming language for smart devices and solutions for the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. Technical background: When you use AES128 encrypt string, if the encrypted string is too long. It will contain \r\n in it. Actually, the encryption output is an array of 8-bit bytes, not characters. The code…
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The hospital and healthcare industry must be vigilant! vigilant! (CVE-2019-7816 – 2nd Mar 2019)
Preface: Medical software manufacturer uses Adobe ColdFusion to more securely collect electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) data.Digital solutions company uses Adobe ColdFusion to help midmarket companies manage eCommerce more effectively. Some expert predicted that ColdFusion was losing the market but he is still alive. Critical statement of this vulnerability and remedy. This attack requires the…
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Who is right, who is wrong. Who know?
Preface: Spy Chip Scandal Amplifies Concerns over Huawei’s 5G Equipment on last year (2018). Doubt – Is it safe to use Huawei phones and should the manufacturer be trusted to make 5G network equipment? Reality: A flaw discovered in an ASN.1 compiler, a widely used C/C++ development tool, could have propagated code vulnerable to heap…