Packet Storm

This Metasploit module creates a local user with a username/password and root-level privileges. Note that a root-level account is not required to do this, which makes it a privilege escalation issue. Note that this is pretty noisy, since it creates a user account and creates log files and such. Additionally, most (if not all) vulnerabilities in F5 grant root access anyways.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5841-1 - It was discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that LibTIFF was incorrectly accessing a data structure when processing data with the tiffcrop tool, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Oracle Database version 12.1.0.2 suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability that achieves DBA access via the Spatial component.

Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek has successfully bridged the traditional gap between academia and operations since its inception. Today, it is relied upon operationally in particular by many scientific environments for securing their cyber-infrastructure. Zeek's user community includes major universities, research labs, supercomputing centers, and open-science communities. This is the source code release.

This is a Linux/portable port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH. OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's SSH with all patent-encumbered algorithms removed, all known security bugs fixed, new features reintroduced, and many other clean-ups.

On January 16, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed several vulnerabilities in Quick Restaurant Menu, a WordPress plugin that allows users to set up restaurant menus on their sites. This plugin is vulnerable to missing authorization, insecure direct object reference, cross site request forgery as well as cross site scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.0.2.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5840-1 - It was discovered that Long Range ZIP incorrectly handled pointers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted ZIP file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It was discovered that Long Range ZIP incorrectly handled pointers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted ZIP file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5839-2 - USN-5839-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apache. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Dimas Fariski Setyawan Putra discovered that the Apache HTTP Server mod_proxy module incorrectly truncated certain response headers. This may result in later headers not being interpreted by the client.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5338-1 - Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitising in the handling of VMDK images in Cinder, the OpenStack block storage system, may result in information disclosure.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5337-1 - Guillaume Espanel, Pierre Libeau, Arnaud Morin and Damien Rannou discovered that missing input sanitising in the handling of VMDK images in OpenStack Compute (codenamed Nova) may result in information disclosure.