Monthly Archives: August 2016

NVD

CVE-2016-6909 (fortios, fortiswitch)

Buffer overflow in the Cookie parser in Fortinet FortiOS 4.x before 4.1.11, 4.2.x before 4.2.13, and 4.3.x before 4.3.9 and FortiSwitch before 3.4.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTTP request, aka EGREGIOUSBLUNDER.

Drupal

Workbench Scheduler – Moderately Critical – Access Bypass – SA-CONTRIB-2016-049

Description

Workbench Scheduler module provides users with the ability to create schedules that change moderated content from one workbench moderation state to another.

An authenticated user could add a schedule to a node even when that content type has schedules disabled.

The vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that a attacker must have access to an account in the system with permission to edit content and create schedules. Also, only sites with a specific combination of permissions and modules are affected.

CVE identifier(s) issued

  • A CVE identifier will be requested, and added upon issuance, in accordance with Drupal Security Team processes.

Versions affected

  • Workbench Scheduler 7.x-1.x versions prior to 7.x-1.9.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed Workbench Scheduler module, there is nothing you need to do.

Solution

Install the latest version:

Also see the Workbench Scheduler project page.

Reported by

Fixed by

Coordinated by

Contact and More Information

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Drupal version: 
Drupal 7.x
Security

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1756-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1756-01 – KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. The qemu-kvm-rhev package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM in environments managed by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Security Fix: Quick Emulator built with the Block driver for iSCSI images support is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow issue. The flaw could occur while processing iSCSI asynchronous I/O ioctl calls. A user inside a guest could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in denial of service, or potentially leverage it to execute arbitrary code with QEMU-process privileges on the host.

Hackers News

MIT Researchers Solve the Spectrum Crunch to make Wi-Fi 10 times Faster

While using your cell phone at a massive public event, like a concert, conference, or sporting event, you have probably experienced slow communication, poor performance or slow browsing speeds, as crowds arrive.

That’s because of ‘Spectrum Crunch’, which means, Interference of WiFi signals with each other.

WiFi signals of all cell-phones in a large event interfere with each other because