DOS

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2019
Roughly 500,000 Ubiquiti devices may be affected by flaw already exploited in the wild

Security experts identified nearly 500,000 Ubiquit devices that may be affected by a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Security experts are warning Ubiquit users of a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2019
Omron addressed multiple flaws in its CX-Supervisor product

The electronics firm Omron released a security update to address flaws in its CX-Supervisor product that can be exploited DoS attacks and remote code execution. CX-Supervisor allows to rapidly create human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems thanks to the availability of a large number of predefined functions and libraries. The software […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2018
Critical unfixed flaws affect ABB Safety PLC Gateways

Researchers at Applied Risk discovered serious flaws in some PLC gateways manufactured by industrial tech company ABB. Security experts at Applied Risk are affected by potentially serious flaws and the bad news is that the vendor will not release firmware updates because the impacted products have reached the end of life. The security firm published a security advisory that […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2018
Linux Kernel is affected by two DoS vulnerabilities still unpatched

Linux Kernel is affected by two denial-of-service (DoS) flaws, both vulnerabilities are NULL pointer deference issues Linux Kernel is affected by two denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities, the issues impact Linux kernel 4.19.2 and previous versions. Both flaws are rated as Medium severity and are NULL pointer deference issues that can be exploited by a local attacker to trigger a DoS condition. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2018
TP-Link fixes 2 Remote Code Execution flaws in TL-R600VPN SOHO Router and other issues

TP-Link has addressed several vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw, in its TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router. TP-Link as fixed four security vulnerabilities in the TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router that were reported by experts at Cisco Talos. The vulnerabilities are two remote code execution (RCE) flaws(CVE-2018-3950, CVE-2018-3951), a denial-of-service issue (CVE-2018-3948), and a server information disclosure bug (CVE-2018-394). The DOS and server information […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2018
Nginx server security flaws expose more than a million of servers to DoS attacks

Nginx developers released security updates to address several denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities affecting the nginx web server. nginx is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, it is used by 25.28% busiest sites in October 2018. Nginx development team released versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 to address two HTTP/2 implementation vulnerabilities that can […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2018
Apache Struts users have to update FileUpload library to fix years-old flaws

Apache Struts Users have to update the Commons FileUpload library in Struts 2 that is affected by two vulnerabilities. Apache Struts developers have addressed two vulnerabilities in the Commons FileUpload library in Struts 2, the flaws can be exploited for remote code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. “Apache today released an advisory, urging users who run Apache Struts 2.3.x to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2018
Flaw in Icecast streaming media server allows to take off online Radio Stations

Icecast streaming media server is affected by a flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to take off the broadcast of online radio stations. Icecast streaming media server is affected by a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-18820, that could be exploited by an attacker to take off the broadcast of online radio stations.  Icecast supports both audio and video data […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2018
CISCO warn of a zero-day DoS flaw that is being actively exploited in attacks

Security experts from CISCO warn of a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in attacks in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15454, affects the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection engine of Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). The flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker to trigger a DoS condition […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2018
Systemd flaw could cause the crash or hijack of vulnerable Linux machines

Systemd is affected by a security vulnerability that can be exploited to crash a vulnerable Linux machine, and in the worst case to execute malicious code. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability using maliciously crafted DHCPv6 packets and modifying portions of memory of the vulnerable systems, potentially causing remote code execution. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15688, […]