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CVE-2023-24941 – Windows Network File System Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. One of the possible ways to trigger the attack. (10th May 2023)
Preface: The NFS 4.1 design flaw was released in August 2019 because it only affected the Linux operating system kernel at the time. It was hard to predict, and now it is going to the Windows platform! Background: Using the NFS protocol, you can transfer files between computers running Windows and other non-Windows operating systems,…
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CVE-2023-2513: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry (8th May 2023)
Preface: The vulnerability was fixed in Aug 2022. This is not a zero day and therefore published this month. Background: ext4 is the default file system for many Linux distributions including Debian and Ubuntu. Furthermore, ext4 is the default file system for DigitalOcean Volumes Block Storage. Also, Google has used Ext4 on Android since Android…
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Do you know what AI thinking?But sooner or later he will become smarter than common people (8th May 2023).
Preface: The 2012 Mayans doomsday prophecy perhaps is a joke.However the poor weather havoc and unpredictable. The sudden weather change become more destructive. As a matter of fact, scientists urge that this extreme change of weather related to current environment.What’s more, the prophecy does not record how nature will change immediately. Nor does it say…
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About CVE-2023-21511 – How local attacker to read arbitrary memory? (6th May 2023)
Preface: TEE is an area on the chipset that works like a TPM, but is not physically isolated from the rest of the chip. Background: The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is a secure area within the main processor. As an isolation environment, it ensures that the code and data loaded in the TEE are protected…
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About CVE-2023-27999 (FortiADC from Fortinet): Are old vulnerabilities showing up again? (4th May 2023)
Preface: In former design weakness, attacker can smuggle commands using backticks in the “Name” field of the SAML Server configuration page. These commands are then executed as the root user of the underlying operating system.This article a speculation, since vendor do not have technical details provided in this CVE record. Background: FortiADC is an advanced…
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About CVE-2023-21666: memory leak vulnerability (3rd May 2023)
Preface: The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used. Such design weakness will belongs to CWE-401. Background: Snapdragon Heterogeneous Compute SDK: provides developers with the ability to allocate work to any of the three processors on Snapdragon. The SDK provides C++ API’s for the Kryo CPU and Adreno…
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About CVE-2023-46365: Hard Code value vs access privileges control! (2nd May 2023)
Preface: In order to avoid vulnerabilities, cloud service providers have their hands full! Background: It will be open-sourced under the name of StreamX in April 2021, renamed StreamPark in August 2022, and then formally become an incubation project of the Apache Open Source Software Foundation through voting in September.StreamPark is a streaming application development framework.…
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About CVE-2023-1786: cloud-init impact Oracle Linux 8 & 9. Fix log file permissions. (27th Apr 2023)
Preface: Open source software fosters collaboration. As such, open source software will continue to play a key role in modern software development. Background: cloud-init is a software package that automates the initialization of cloud instances during system boot. You can configure cloud-init to perform a variety of tasks. Cloud-init is a service used for customizing…
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About CVE-2023-30841 – Metal Kubed (27th Apr 2023)
Preface: If a website is hacked, cyber criminals don’t get access to your password. Instead, they just get access to the encrypted “hash” created by your password. Talking about hash algotithms, For example, MD5, SHA1, and so on.The length of a hash is always a constant, irrespective of the length of the input. For example,…
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About CVE‑2023‑25512, CVE‑2023‑25513 & CVE‑2023‑25514 vulnerabilities – NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit (25th Apr 2023)
Preface: In next generation of computing technology, perhaps this so called next generation has came. Any software or hardware design weakness will affected our daily life. It looks that man kind does not have choice, an intangible force push the world to that zone. The situations similar gravity in our earth. Background: Parallel processing is…