FBI Investigating Alleged Attack on Houston Astros

In one of the more bizarre alleged hacking stories to emerge recently, federal authorities are investigating whether employees of the St. Louis Cardinals hacked into systems belonging to the Houston Astros and got access to internal team conversations about players, trades, scouting reports, and other sensitive information. The alleged attack against the Astros’ network is the focus […]

CVE-2015-4374 (webform)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Webform module before 6.x-3.23, 7.x-3.x before 7.x-3.23, and 7.x-4.x before 7.x-4.5 for Drupal allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a component name in the recipient (To) address of an email.

CVE-2015-4398 (ctools)

Open redirect vulnerability in the Chaos tool suite (ctools) module before 6.x-1.12 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.7 for Drupal allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors involving processing confirmation delete pages.

Ubuntu 12.04 / 14.04 / 14.10 / 15.04 overlayfs Local Root

The overlayfs filesystem does not correctly check file permissions when creating new files in the upper filesystem directory. This can be exploited by an unprivileged process in kernels with CONFIG_USER_NS=y and where overlayfs has the FS_USERNS_MOUNT flag, which allows the mounting of overlayfs inside unprivileged mount namespaces. This is the default configuration of Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, and 15.04. Included is a full exploit demonstration root code execution.

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2649-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 2649-1 – It was discovered that the uupdate tool incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a remote attacker could possibly replace arbitrary files, leading to a privilege escalation.

CVE-2015-2804 (omniswitch_firmware)

The management web interface in Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6450, 6250, 6850E, 9000E, 6400, and 6855 with firmware before 6.6.4.309.R01 and 6.6.5.x before 6.6.5.80.R02 generates weak session identifiers, which allows remote attackers to hijack session via a brute force attack.

CVE-2015-2805 (omniswitch_firmware)

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in sec/content/sec_asa_users_local_db_add.html in the management web interface in Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6450, 6250, 6850E, 9000E, 6400, 6855, 6900, 10K, and 6860 with firmware 6.4.5.R02, 6.4.6.R01, 6.6.4.R01, 6.6.5.R02, 7.3.2.R01, 7.3.3.R01, 7.3.4.R01, and 8.1.1.R01 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create users via a crafted request.