VMware Update Fixes Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

WordPress 4.3.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This release addresses three issues, including two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential privilege escalation.

An update for Xen was just released to address two major security vulnerabilities and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible.

An update for cPanel was just released to address various security vulnerabilities. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with cPanel and WHM. We recommend that you update as soon as possible.

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in older versions of the popular Code Snippets plugin for WordPress. The flaw allowed anybody to forge a request on behalf of an administrator and inject executable code on a vulnerable site. This is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Remote Code Execution…

A vulnerability that VMware patched recently in some of its products, is currently being exploited and Russian threat actors are leveraging this vulnerability to install malware on corporate systems and access protected data, the National Security Agency (NSA) warned on Monday.

Simply patching systems against the Bash/Shellshock vulnerability may not be adequate. Attacks exploiting the flaw appeared within a day of its disclosure. Those attacks may have made changes to systems that would not be remedied by the application of a patch.

This Public Service Announcement is a follow up to SA-CORE-2014-005 – Drupal core – SQL injection. This is not an announcement of a new vulnerability in Drupal. Automated attacks began compromising Drupal 7 websites that were not patched or updated to Drupal 7.32 within hours of the announcement of…

Joomla! has released version 3.7.3 of its Content Management System (CMS) software that addresses several security issues. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected website.

cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having CVSSv2 scores ranging from…

cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having CVSSv2 scores ranging from…

According to a Google Security Researcher who was able to defeat all of the current patches and make the vulnerability easier to exploit, they are now recommending the following unofficial patch until it is pushed upstream: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/25/13 Further Information: “http://www.itnews.com.au/News/396256,further-flaws-render-shellshock-patch-ineffective.aspx source: hostingseclist

Over the past two years, processors, in particular processors made by Intel, have been targeted by an unending series of attacks that have made it possible for skilled attackers to intercept passwords, encryption keys, and other secrets out of data stored in resident memory.

Researchers from universities in Adelaide, Eindhoven, Chicago, Maryland and Pennsylvania have published a paper describing how they used a local side-channel attack to break the Libgcrypt encryption library. The exploit could be used to recover a RSA-1024 key.

An update for Xen was just released to address a vulnerability where a buggy or malicious HVM guest can crash the host or read data relating to other guests or the hypervisor itself. source:hostingseclist

A vulnerability in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) feature of Intel processors appears relatively easy to abusive. A remote control authentication screen can be bypassed using a blank string through a proxy server. AMT lets sysadmins perform powerful tasks over a remote connection.