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CVE-2020-4829 – AIX owner should be staying alert! (14th Dec 2020)
Preface: When I was young, there were two giants in the mid-range system market. They are IBM and Sun Micro. Over the time, IBM won this market. To this day, the business world likes to use IBM AIX OS the most. Background: About twenty years ago, a well known buffer overflow vulnerabilities discovered in Kerberos…
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FireEye detected APT activities go through Solarwinds product – 13th Dec 2020
Preface: SolarWinds Orion is an IT performance monitoring platform that helps businesses manage and optimize their IT infrastructure. Vulnerability details: SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll is signed by SolarWinds. However, when connection come from trusted vendor (valid signature ) which carry malware. Existing design do not have defense mechanism. Impact: CISA has determined that this exploitation of SolarWinds products…
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Chakra scripting engine countdown. However, you still need to patch (11th DEc 2020)
Preface: Microsoft Edge no longer uses Chakra. Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for Chakracore 1.11 until 9th March 2021 but do not intend to support it after that. Background: Chakra, a JavaScript engine that powers Windows applications written in HTML/CSS/JS and used to power Microsoft Edge. ChakraCore supports Just-in-time (JIT) compilation of JavaScript…
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The CERT Coordination Center Bulletin – About the vulnerabilities affecting the open source TCP/IP Stack (8th Dec, 2020)
Preface: October 1, 2019 – A security firm has identified 11 vulnerabilities, named “URGENT/11. Background: TCP/IP stack was developed using subset of the āCā language. The open source TCP/IP stack design is widely used in embedded systems in the market. Briefly describe it as an IoT device. It runs in your business environment and in…
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Sensitive Information into Log File, kubernetes is no exception. 7-12-2020
Preface: If you don’t see much useful in the logs, you could try turning on verbose logging on the Kubernetes component you suspect has a problem using –v or –vmodule, to at least level 4. Technical background: The cluster-level logging in Kubernetes is that Kubernetes has no native cluster-level logging. There are a few proven…
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We try our best to avoid information leakage. But it is difficult to avoid vulnerability happen. Take care of your cat (Tomcat) – 7th Dec 2020
Preface: We encourages users and administrators to review the Apache security advisory for CVE-2020-17527 and upgrade to the appropriate version, said CISA (4th Dec 2020). Vulnerability details: With known HTTP/2 Protocol practice, HTTP headers are compressed using a combination of compression schemes (static Huffman coding and context adaptive coding). Flow control and dependency mechanisms that…
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CVE-2020-29534: Perhaps this impact only apply to end user instead of IoT manufacturer. The fact is that 5.9 release just release ob Oct 2020. (3rd Dec 2020)
Preface: The new version of Linux kernel 5.1 will add this io_uring. The main purpose of io_uring is to improve the original Linux native AIO problem. For example:– MySQL and Nginx already support local AIO.– InnoDB uses the asynchronous I/O subsystem (native AIO) on Linux to perform read-ahead and write requests for data file pages.…
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Xerox DocuShare (6.6.1, 7.0 and 7.5) involves potential data leakage vulnerabilities (3rd Dec 2020)
Preface: The official announcement did not mentioned too much. Do you have doubt of CVE-2020-27177 (Xerox DocuShare vulnerability)? Product details: DocuShare Scan and Print 7 (hereafter, Scan and Print) is a feature which allows you to print documents uploaded to DocuShare, or upload scanned documents to DocuShare. DocuShare security features protect content from unauthorized access…
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New vulnerability found on Tesla Model X, perhaps the remedy solution is don’t let stranger seat on your car – 1st Dec 2020
Preface: Vulnerabilities found in products are not news. In short, a total of 3 vulnerabilities were found on the Tesla Model X this time. Vulnerability Details: About the new discoveries found on Model X. Please refer to the url below. In addition, the attached drawings will provide you with hints. https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-model-x-hack-bluetooth/ Information Supplement for reference:…
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Iphone 6s owner have serious operation problem after upgrade their IOS to 12.4.9. Do you think vendor will be fixed?
Preface: Vendor insists to fix the cyber security weakness of CVE-2020-27929 & CVE-2020-27930. However, this iOS upgrade action was caused the specify iPhone product encounter operation difficulties especially 6s. Observation 1: On 5th November, 2020, apple implement security update to enhance the cyber security protection on their products. This enhancement including an remediation action to…