Security Hardening

IBM AIX 7.2 — CVE-2010-2594 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.2

IBM AIX 7.2 — CVE-2010-2594 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 15–45 min  Last verified: 2 April 2016 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-2010-2594, IBM PSIRT advisory page CVE: CVE-2010-2594 NVD summary: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the web management interface in InterSect Alliance Snare Agent 3.2.3 and earlier on Solaris, Snare Agent […]

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SLES 12 — doxygen — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — doxygen — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 1 April 2016 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:1570-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10245 Upstream summary: Insufficient sanitization of the query parameter in templates/html/search_opensearch.php could lead to reflected cross-site scripting or iframe injection. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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IBM AIX 7.2 — CVE-2007-4796 — buffer overflow — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.2

IBM AIX 7.2 — CVE-2007-4796 — buffer overflow — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 30–90 min  Last verified: 30 March 2016 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-2007-4796, IBM Support Bulletin CVE: CVE-2007-4796 NVD summary: Buffer overflow in uucp in bos.net.uucp in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors. References: secunia.com/advisories/26715   […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 March 2016 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2747-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5950 Upstream summary: Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root […]

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SLES 12 — rtkit — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — rtkit — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 29 March 2016 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4326 Upstream summary: RealtimeKit (aka rtkit) 0.5 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended […]

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SLES 12 — libgnomesu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libgnomesu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 26 March 2016 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1946 Upstream summary: gnomesu-pam-backend in libgnomesu 1.0.0 prints an error message but proceeds with the non-error code path upon failure of the setgid or setuid […]

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