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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet that's targeting machines with weak SSH passwords to ultimately mine cryptocurrency on compromised instances using their GPU computational power. This indicates that the "IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments," Aqua Security researcher Assaf Morag said in a Wednesday analysis.

### Summary Allocating an untrusted amount of memory allows any unauthenticated user to OOM a russh server. ### Details An SSH packet consists of a 4-byte big-endian length, followed by a byte stream of this length. After parsing and potentially decrypting the 4-byte length, russh allocates enough memory for this bytestream, as a performance optimization to avoid reallocations later. https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/blob/4eaa080e7532662023f75e8fff45b743fe607f8c/russh/src/cipher/mod.rs#L254 But this length is entirely untrusted and can be set to any value by the client, causing this much memory to be allocated, which will cause the process to OOM within a few such requests. RFC 4253 contains an explicit section on packet length limits: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4253#section-6.1 > However, implementations SHOULD check that the packet length is reasonable in order for the implementation to avoid denial of service and/or buffer overflow attacks. ### PoC Running the `...

A wrong assumption made when handling ECMAScript's `AsyncGenerator` operations can cause an uncaught exception on certain scripts. ## Details Boa's implementation of `AsyncGenerator` makes the assumption that the state of an `AsyncGenerator` object cannot change while resolving a promise created by methods of `AsyncGenerator` such as `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.next`, `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.return`, or `%AsyncGeneratorPrototype%.throw`. However, a carefully constructed code could trigger a state transition from a getter method for the promise's `then` property, which causes the engine to fail an assertion of this assumption, causing an uncaught exception. This could be used to create a Denial Of Service attack in applications that run arbitrary ECMAScript code provided by an external user. ## Patches Version 0.19.0 is patched to correctly handle this case. ## Workarounds Users unable to upgrade to the patched version would want to use [`std::panic::catch_unwind`](https://doc.r...

Eight of the vulnerabilities affect the license update feature for CLIPSP.SYS, a driver used to implement Client License System Policy on Windows 10 and 11.

In K7 Ultimate Security versions prior to 17.0.2019, the driver file (K7RKScan.sys - this version 15.1.0.7) allows local users to cause a denial of service (BSOD) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of a null pointer dereference from IOCtl 0x222010 and 0x222014. At the same time, the drive is accessible to all users in the "Everyone" group.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5748-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FFmpeg multimedia framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if malformed files/streams are processed.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-5338-03 - An update for pcs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.

CVE-2024-6768 is a vulnerability in the Common Log File System (CLFS.sys) driver of Windows, caused by improper validation of specified quantities in input data. This flaw leads to an unrecoverable inconsistency, triggering the KeBugCheckEx function and resulting in a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). The issue affects all versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, Server 2019 and Server 2022 despite having all updates applied. This Proof of Concept (PoC) shows that by crafting specific values within a .BLF file, an unprivileged user can induce a system crash.

Microsoft on Tuesday shipped fixes to address a total of 90 security flaws, including 10 zero-days, of which six have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 90 bugs, seven are rated Critical, 79 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. This is also in addition to 36 vulnerabilities that the tech giant resolved in its Edge browser since last month. The Patch Tuesday

Ivanti has rolled out security updates for a critical flaw in Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) that could be exploited to achieve an authentication bypass and create rogue administrative users. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7593, has a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "Incorrect implementation of an authentication algorithm in Ivanti vTM other than versions 22.2R1 or 22.7R2