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Missing host name Dave Close (May 14)
Running Nmap 7.92 on CentOS 8. Commands -sP, -sn, and -sL all behave
the same way. When scanning a local network with local name service,
forward and reverse, for all addresses within the network, not all
addresses are reported with their host names. Specifically, every third
report is missing the name. Since all addresses and names are available
from the same local name server (Bind 9), this doesn't seem reasonable.

For example, "nmap...

[NSE] Added the scripts bitcoin-testnets* Melo via dev (May 14)
hi,
I want to congratulate all of you on the nmap project.
I've always found it fabulous and I've used it a lot over time.
Often, because of this, I want to contribute to the project.

I studied the commit of Mr. Patrick 8a175d127d03e83f8c4c65f50c358daaa52b630d
with the description:

[NSE] Added the scripts bitcoin-info, bitcoin-getaddr and a supporting
Bitcoin library. The script bitcoin-info retrieves information about the
remote...

Re: ZenMap GUI no longer in Windows pre-compiled binaries? Ben via dev (May 08)
@Gisle Vanem

Hmm, thats not completely true.
Maybe running with pure Python is ONE way to use ZenMap GUI.

If I look on my current nmap installation v7.93 (on windows) then there IS a zenmap.exe in the installation directory.

I virus-checked the .exe, put it into *.zip file and attached it.

Since I plan to run nmap portable from USB flash drive and don't want to leave traces (like new, extra Python
installations)
I prefer to have as much...

Re: dev Digest, Vol 224, Issue 2 Prizrak (May 04)

Re: ZenMap GUI no longer in Windows pre-compiled binaries? Gisle Vanem via dev (May 03)
Ben wrote:

Zenmap is a Python 3 program; no .exe-file.
Should be run as 'py -3 <install_path>\zenmap' or
via some zenmap.bat file.

Here is mine:
@echo off
setlocal
set ZENMAP_PATH=f:\MinGW32\src\inet\network-scanners\nmap\zenmap
set ZENMAP_DEVELOPMENT=1
set GI_PATH=f:\gv\Python310\lib\site-packages\gi
set PYTHONPATH=%ZENMAP_PATH%;%GI_PATH%;%PYTHONPATH%
py -3 %ZENMAP_PATH%\zenmap %*

YMMV

ZenMap GUI no longer in Windows pre-compiled binaries? Ben via dev (May 03)
After a longer time of absence I downloaded the newest pre-compiled Windows nmap package nmap-7.95-setup.exe from

https://nmap.org/download

Much to my surprise I cannot find Zenmap GUI *.exe after extraction.

Where is it?

Thank you
Ben

New Error about NMap 7.94 sanshixiong via dev (Apr 25)
Version: 7.94
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "D:\Program Files (x86)\Nmap\zenmap\lib\python3.10\site-packages\zenmapGUI\App.py", line 281, in run
    window = new_window()
  File "D:\Program Files (x86)\Nmap\zenmap\lib\python3.10\site-packages\zenmapGUI\App.py", line 124, in new_window
 ...

Bug Fix for SMB Version Formatting in Nmap 7.93+ Yam Mesicka (Apr 11)
Hi Nmap Developers,

I've identified a bug in Nmap in Nmap 7.93 and 7.94 related to inconsistent
formatting of SMB versions detected by Nmap's SMB scripts.

The issue:

* Nmap 7.94 outputs "3:1:1"
* Nmap 7.93 outputs "311"
* Expected format (as in Nmap 7.92) is "3.1.1"

This inconsistency can cause problems for scripts that rely on accurate SMB
version information. To address this, I've:

* Opened an...

Misconception about how pcap_getevent() is meant to be used Jan Danielsson (Mar 10)
Hello,

When browsing/reading about pcap_getevent(), I got the impression
that its intended use was roughly this (pseudo-code):

----------
cap = open_device(..);
hev = pcap_getevent(cap);

while(1) {
// block and wait for data to become available for reading
dw = WaitForMultipleObjects([hev]);
if(dw == FIRST_INDEX) {
// Enter a loop that calls pcap_next() until the buffer is empty
}
}
----------

I.e. pcap_getevent()...

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Nmap 7.95 released: OS and service detection signatures galore! Gordon Fyodor Lyon (May 05)
Dear Nmap Community,

I just arrived in San Francisco for the RSA conference and am delighted to
announce our Nmap Version 7.95 release! I'm most excited that we finally
tackled our backlog of OS and service detection fingerprint submissions.
We're not talking about dozens or hundreds of them-we processed more than
6,500 fingerprints!

For OS detection, we added 336 signatures, bringing the new total to 6,036.
Additions include iOS 15...

Npcap Celebrates its 10th Anniversary In Space! Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Oct 05)
Dear Nmap community,

Last month we celebrated Nmap's 26th birthday and today I'm happy to share
another big milestone: Our Npcap driver for capturing and sending raw
packets on Windows turned 10 this year! From humble beginnings as a
security and modernization patch for the discontinued WinPcap project,
Npcap has become an indispensable component for both Nmap and Wireshark.
And it's used by hundreds of other software products and...

Nmap 26th Birthday Announcement: Version 7.94 Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Sep 01)
Dear Nmap community,

Today is Nmap’s 26th birthday, which reminded me that I hadn’t yet
announced our Nmap 7.94 release from May. And it’s a great one! The biggest
improvement was the Zenmap and Ndiff upgrades from the obsolete Python 2
language to Python 3 on all platforms. Big thanks to Daniel Miller, Jakub
Kulík, Brian Quigley, Sam James, Eli Schwartz, Romain Leonard, Varunram
Ganesh, Pavel Zhukov, Carey Balboa, and Hasan Aliyev for...

Full Disclosure — A public, vendor-neutral forum for detailed discussion of vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques, as well as tools, papers, news, and events of interest to the community. The relaxed atmosphere of this quirky list provides some comic relief and certain industry gossip. More importantly, fresh vulnerabilities sometimes hit this list many hours or days before they pass through the Bugtraq moderation queue.

SEC Consult SA-20240513-0 :: Tolerating Self-Signed Certificates in SAP® Cloud Connector SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (May 14)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20240513-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Tolerating Self-Signed Certificates
product: SAP® Cloud Connector
vulnerable version: 2.15.0 - 2.16.1 (Portable and Installer)
fixed version: 2.16.2 (Portable and Installer)
CVE number: CVE-2024-25642
impact: high
homepage:...

TROJANSPY.WIN64.EMOTET.A / Arbitrary Code Execution malvuln (May 14)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/f917c77f60c3c1ac6dbbadbf366ddd30.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: twitter.com/malvuln

Threat: TrojanSpy.Win64.EMOTET.A
Vulnerability: Arbitrary Code Execution
Description: The malware looks for and executes a x64-bit "CRYPTBASE.dll"
PE file in its current directory. Therefore, we can hijack the DLL and
execute our own...

BACKDOOR.WIN32.ASYNCRAT / Arbitrary Code Execution malvuln (May 14)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/2337b9a12ecf50b94fc95e6ac34b3ecc.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: twitter.com/malvuln

Threat: Backdoor.Win32.AsyncRat
Vulnerability: Arbitrary Code Execution
Description: The malware looks for and executes a x32-bit "CRYPTSP.dll" PE
file in its current directory. Therefore, we can hijack the DLL and execute
our own...

Re: Panel.SmokeLoader / Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) malvuln (May 14)
Updated and fixed a payload typo and added additional info regarding the
stored persistent XSS see attached.

Thanks, Malvuln

Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/4b5fc3a2489985f314b81d35eac3560f_B.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: twitter.com/malvuln

Threat: Panel.SmokeLoader
Vulnerability: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - Persistent XSS
Family: SmokeLoader...

Panel.SmokeLoader / Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) malvuln (May 14)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/4b5fc3a2489985f314b81d35eac3560f_B.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: twitter.com/malvuln

Threat: Panel.SmokeLoader
Vulnerability: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Family: SmokeLoader
Type: Web Panel
MD5: 4b5fc3a2489985f314b81d35eac3560f (control.php)
SHA256: 8d02238577081be74b9ebc1effcfbf3452ffdb51f130398b5ab875b9bfe17743
Vuln...

Panel.SmokeLoader C2 / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) malvuln (May 14)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/4b5fc3a2489985f314b81d35eac3560f.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: twitter.com/malvuln

Threat: Panel.SmokeLoader
Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Family: SmokeLoader
Type: Web Panel
MD5: 4b5fc3a2489985f314b81d35eac3560f (control.php)
SHA256: 8d02238577081be74b9ebc1effcfbf3452ffdb51f130398b5ab875b9bfe17743
Vuln ID:...

Panel.Amadey.d.c C2 / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) malvuln (May 14)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/50467c891bf7de34d2d65fa93ab8b558.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: twitter.com/malvuln

Threat: Panel Amadey.d.c
Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Family: Amadey
Type: Web Panel
MD5: 50467c891bf7de34d2d65fa93ab8b558 (Login.php)
SHA256: 65623eead2bcba66817861246e842386d712c38c5c5558e50eb49cffa2a1035d
Vuln ID:...

Re: RansomLord v3 / Anti-Ransomware Exploit Tool Released malvuln (May 14)
Updated, fixed typo
SHA256 : 810229C7E62D5EDDD3DA9FFA19D04A31D71F9C36D05B6A614FEF496E88656FF5

RansomLord v3 / Anti-Ransomware Exploit Tool Released malvuln (May 14)
Proof-of-concept tool that automates the creation of PE files, used to
exploit Ransomware pre-encryption. Updated v3:
https://github.com/malvuln/RansomLord/releases/tag/v3
Lang: C SHA256:
83f56d14671b912a9a68da2cd37607cac3e5b31560a6e30380e3c6bd093560f5

Video PoC (old v2):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ho0bpeJWqI

RansomLord generated PE files are saved to disk in the x32 or x64
directories where the program is run from. Goal is to exploit...

APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-8 tvOS 17.5 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (May 14)
APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-8 tvOS 17.5

tvOS 17.5 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/HT214102.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/HT201222 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

AppleAVD
Available for: Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K (all models)
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel...

APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-7 watchOS 10.5 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (May 14)
APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-7 watchOS 10.5

watchOS 10.5 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/HT214104.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/HT201222 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

AppleAVD
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel
privileges...

Research about consistency of CVSSv4 Julia Wunder (May 14)
Hello there,

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) is conducting a research
study to investigate the reliability of CVSSv4 (Common Vulnerability
Scoring System). We conducted a survey on CVSSv3.1 in winter 2020/21 and
found out that the ratings are not always consistent [1]. Now we want to
investigate the latest version CVSSv4. If you are currently assessing
vulnerabilities using CVSS, we would greatly appreciate your...

APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-6 macOS Monterey 12.7.5 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (May 14)
APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-6 macOS Monterey 12.7.5

macOS Monterey 12.7.5 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/HT214105.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/HT201222 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

Find My
Available for: macOS Monterey
Impact: A malicious application may be able to access Find My data...

APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-5 macOS Ventura 13.6.7 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (May 14)
APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-5 macOS Ventura 13.6.7

macOS Ventura 13.6.7 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/HT214107.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/HT201222 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

Foundation
Available for: macOS Ventura
Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data
Description: A...

APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-4 macOS Sonoma 14.5 Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure (May 14)
APPLE-SA-05-13-2024-4 macOS Sonoma 14.5

macOS Sonoma 14.5 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/HT214106.

Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/HT201222 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.

AppleAVD
Available for: macOS Sonoma
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel
privileges...

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Re: Excellent piece by Chris Rohlf - " No, LLM Agents can not Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities " Arun Koshy via Dailydave (Apr 24)
This is probably an independent issue ( imvho ).

Re LLMs and present AI / ML regime, my only public comment is that
we're in the Hindenburg [1] era .. caveat emptor. Another insightful
paper that probably will be ignored this summer:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03762 ( author :
https://people.csail.mit.edu/kostas/ )

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg

Excellent piece by Chris Rohlf - " No, LLM Agents can not Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities " Arun Koshy via Dailydave (Apr 24)
check:

https://struct.github.io/auto_agents_1_day.html

A Familiar World of Chaos Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Apr 21)
After spending some time looking at "Secure by Design/Default" I have no
doubt many of you feel like something is missing - something that's hard to
put your finger on. So you go back to the treadmill of reading about bugs
in Palo Alto devices, or the latest Project Zero blogpost, or something the
Microsoft Threat Team is naming RidonculousBreeze, or whatever.

For those of you who chose to read the latest Project Zero post, one...

Sophia D'Antoine Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Apr 17)
On Monday, I and 400 other people, including many on this mailing list,
attended Sophia's funeral in a huge church in the upper east side of NYC.
Although I grew up in a Jewish household, I am not religious, and the last
time I went to a church was also with Sophia, in Jerusalem, where we
wandered through various landmarks until we ended up at the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher, one of the holiest sites for Christianity.

We waited in a line...

do androids dream of electric sheep in JSON or XML? Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Apr 02)
[image: image.png]

Like everyone I know, I've been spending a lot of time neck deep in LLMs.
As released, they are fascinating and useless toys. I feel like actually
using an LLM to do anything real is your basic nightmare still. At the very
minimum, you need structured output, and OpenAI has led the way in offering
a JSON-based calling format which allows you to extend it with functions
that cover the things an LLM can't really do...

Bugdoor vs Backdoor Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Apr 01)
[image: image.png]

The security community (aka, all of us on this list) still rages with the
impact of Jia Tan putting a sophisticated backdoor into the XV package, and
all of the associated HUMINT effort that went into it. And I realized from
talking to people, especially people in the cyber policy realm but also
technical experts, about it that there's a pretty big gap when it comes to
understanding why someone would put in a backdoor at...

t2'24: Last Dance Tomi Tuominen via Dailydave (Mar 28)
Dear Daily Dave,

For a hacker conference, twenty years is a huge achievement — for a small conference, even more so. Over these years
we’ve enjoyed speakers showcasing results from cutting-edge research, seen thought-provoking keynotes and bonded with
other like-minded people from all over the world.

If we had to summarize the experience with one word, it would be gratitude. The speakers, repeat speakers, first timers
or regular...

while True: Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Mar 24)
There seem to be a lot of people who think the problem with cyber security
is we aren't paying lawyers enough. This results in the current push for
software liabilities, or the need to click accept on cookies before we use
every website. It is natural for lawyers to want to feed the
next generation of associates, by regurgitating legal koans into their
mouths. These vomitous truisms pass for thought leadership when you go high
enough into...

Re: Value of the [leaked] Windows source Michal Zalewski via Dailydave (Mar 06)
Not really different from prototyping on the Linux kernel or the
Chromium codebase - pick an old version if you want known bugs... you
don't see a whole lot of that either, and in contrast to Windows, that
wouldn't lead to all kinds of icky questions about ethics, IP, etc.

The thing about most of these tools is that they don't fare well in
large and exotic codebases. What makes sense for a web app is seldom
applicable to a kernel,...

Value of the [leaked] Windows source Konrads Klints via Dailydave (Mar 06)
Windows XP and Windows 2003 partial source code is out there on github. With such a rich corpus of known
vulnerabilities in those OS'es and source code availability, surely there should be an amazing amount of
SAST/semgrep/codeql rules that take as input existing known exploits and then do rules that find similar things, yet I
don't seem to be able to find such projects

Surely, these two code bases should be the foundation of most...

Re: 0xC15A: Secure By Design and Secure by Default Christian Heinrich via Dailydave (Jan 26)
Telsh,

The CISA responded to their draft deliverable on 29 November 2023
(Page 15) and have agreed to implement its recommendations by 31
October 2024, 30 May 2025 (Page 12) and 30 September 2025 (Page 13)

The page numbers above of
https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-01/OIG-24-09-Jan24.pdf

Secure By Default Part 2 Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Jan 19)
So I wrote a little draft essay on Secure By Default and opened it for
comment. I think one thing that we maybe forget in our community is that
some of the more fundamental basises of what we do never make it up to
policy-world. Langsec being the primary example. But also there's a huge
body of work in TAOSSA, Shellcoders, every offensive conference talk, etc.
that never gets put into context anywhere but in our clique.

Obviously feel free...

Re: 0xC15A: Secure By Design and Secure by Default telsh via Dailydave (Jan 19)
Hey everybody,

Please note the last sentence on page 3:
"The scope of our audit was efforts during fiscal years 2019 through 2022"

Not being a fanboy of CISA, I see that quite a lot of (positive) things
have happened in the last 2 years there.

And publishing a report for that timeframe in January 2024 puts the OIG
in a questionable light regarding agility and speed.

Just my 0.02 €...
telsh

Re: 0xC15A: Secure By Design and Secure by Default Christian Heinrich via Dailydave (Jan 19)
Dave,

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-01/OIG-24-09-Jan24.pdf
reached a different conclusion.

0xC15A: Secure By Design and Secure by Default Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Jan 12)
So I have a ton of thoughts on the CISA Secure by Design and Secure by
Default push that is ongoing, as I am sure many of you do. And the first
thought is: This is not a bad way to go about business as a government
agency in general. I think it's easy to ignore how fast the USG has changed
its business practices, showing an agility that few large organizations can
match. In particular using Secure By Design as a case example.

1. Massive...

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Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products CISA (Mar 28)
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PM EDT

Apple...

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CISA and NSA Release Enduring Security Framework Guidance on Identity and Access Management CISA (Mar 21)
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CVE-2024-21823: Intel DSA and Intel IAA advisory Alan Coopersmith (May 15)
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01084.html
was published yesterday covering OS/Hypervisor mitigations they recommend
to reduce exposure to a bug in certain recent Intel CPUs.

It states:

[Further details, including a table of affected hardware, is in their advisory.]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2278989 notes:

I don't know if any other open source kernels or hypervisors support this...

git: 5 vulnerabilities fixed Johannes Schindelin (May 14)
Team,

The Git project released new security bug-fix versions today, May 14th,
2024: v2.45.1, v2.44.1, v2.43.4, v2.42.2, v2.41.1, v2.40.2, and v2.39.4.

The addressed issues are:

* CVE-2024-32002
* (https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-8h77-4q3w-gfgv):

Recursive clones on case-insensitive filesystems that support symbolic
links are susceptible to case confusion that can be exploited to
execute just-cloned code during...

CVE-2024-32077: Apache Airflow: XSS vulnerability in Task Instance Log/Log Details Ephraim Anierobi (May 14)
Severity: moderate

Affected versions:

- Apache Airflow 2.9.0 before 2.9.1

Description:

Apache Airflow version 2.9.0 has a vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker to inject malicious data into
the task instance logs.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.1, which fixes this issue.

Credit:

Ming (finder)
Jens Scheffler (remediation developer)

References:

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/38882...

Re: Microsoft Device Firmware Configuration Interface (DFCI) in Linux efivars directory Jacob Bachmeyer (May 13)
Solar Designer wrote:

While he is definitely somewhat confused, he claims at the start to have
detected a compromise, but does not give details about the indications
that led him to that conclusion.

As far as I can tell from a quick perusal, (landing at
<URL:https://microsoft.github.io/mu/dyn/mu_feature_dfci/DfciPkg/Docs/Scenarios/DfciScenarios/>)
it seems that DFCI "Zero Touch" is actually tightly bound to Microsoft
cloud...

Re: Microsoft Device Firmware Configuration Interface (DFCI) in Linux efivars directory Jacob Bachmeyer (May 13)
Corey Lopez wrote:

Were the EFI variables marked immutable or did you make a list of every
file on the system and notice them on that list?

I will admit that this seems strange, but it appears that your laptop
has firmware support for DFCI even though, by Microsoft's claims, it
should not be eligible for that feature.

For a first step, I note that those EFI variables appear to contain XML,
and have (using ` sed -e '/^|/{:...

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2024-03: Transfer requests received over DoH can lead to a denial of service in DNSdist Remi Gacogne (May 13)
Hi all,

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.4 today. This release fixes
CVE-2024-25581, a denial of service security issue affecting versions
1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 only. Earlier versions are not affected.

When incoming DNS over HTTPS support is enabled using the nghttp2
provider, and queries are routed to a tcp-only or DNS over TLS backend,
an attacker can trigger an assertion failure in DNSdist by sending a
request for a zone...

Re: lsof "can't stat() fuse.${name} filesystem /run/user/1000/${dir}" Simon McVittie (May 11)
This is not evidence of a compromise, and is also nothing to do with
/dev/loop* specifically. You would see the same thing on a system that
is operating correctly, or when issuing other lsof commands as root that
do not involve /dev/loop*.

These are FUSE filesystems running as uid 1000, which by default are
not accessible *by root* - which might seem strange at first glance,
but is an intentional security mechanism to protect root from being...

Re: Microsoft Device Firmware Configuration Interface (DFCI) in Linux efivars directory Solar Designer (May 11)
Hi,

Corey's message is confused and there's no indication in it whether the
system was compromised, so that part doesn't need further discussion,
but as a moderator I don't mind someone explaining Linux's (and other
systems') exposure of the EFI variables and DFCI and what it means for
security as well as what it does not.

That's normal.

No reason to think so.

That's probably because they were in use....

Microsoft Device Firmware Configuration Interface (DFCI) in Linux efivars directory Corey Lopez (May 11)
I have dual boot Windows 11 Home Edition and Debian based setup on my laptop.

Distributor ID: Kali
Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release: 2024.1
Codename: kali-rolling

After realizing a security breach on my Kali system I discovered /etc/network/interface
had the immutable attribute set while trying to restrict access using chmod. I decided to
investigate other files on my system with the immutable attribute set by running...

[vim-security] buffer-overlow in xxd with colored output < v9.1.0404 Christian Brabandt (May 10)
buffer overflow when outputting colored output in xxd
=====================================================
Date: 10.05.2024
Severity: Low

When outputting colored hexdumps using the -R command line flag,
together with -g1 (group every byte), -c 256 (format 256 octets per
line), -d (show offsets in decimal) and -o <large_numer> (add offset to
the file position), the buffer used to write to may overflow.

Impact is low since the user must...

Re: New SMTP smuggling attack Erik Auerswald (May 09)
Hi,

This section of the RFC explicitly states that any ASCII character is
allowed (see the first sentence you omitted from your quote). Any ASCII
character includes NUL. Stripping the NUL violates the standard.
This is obvious. The RFC text is clear.

The Cisco ESA has been called out in the original SMTP smuggling report
as facilitating SMTP smuggling attacks, thus it is useful as an example.
It provides an example where a side-effect of...

CVE-2024-34365: Apache Karaf Cave: Cave SSRF and arbitrary file access Arnout Engelen (May 09)
Severity: important

Affected versions:

- Apache Karaf Cave or later

Description:

** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Karaf Cave.This issue affects all
versions of Apache Karaf Cave.

As this project is retired, we do not plan to release a version that fixes this issue. Users are recommended to find an
alternative or restrict access to the instance to trusted users.NOTE: This vulnerability only...

[kubernetes] CVE-2024-3744: azure-file-csi-driver discloses service account tokens in logs Rita Zhang (May 09)
Hello Kubernetes Community,

A security issue was discovered in azure-file-csi-driver where an actor
with access to the driver logs could observe service account tokens. These
tokens could then potentially be exchanged with external cloud providers to
access cloud resources. Tokens are only logged when TokenRequests is
configured in the CSIDriver object
<https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/token-requests.html> and the driver
is set to...

Re: New SMTP smuggling attack Mark Esler (May 09)
This applies to <CRLF>.<CRLF> and RFC 5321 section 4.5.2 as well.

Postfix' CVE-2023-51764 patchset adds options to normalize (default),
note, reject, or ignore bare newlines:
```
cleanup_replace_stray_cr_lf = default:yes
smtpd_forbid_bare_newline = default:normalize
smtpd_forbid_bare_newline_exclusions = default:$mynetworks
```
(See Postfix' HISTORY file for more context.)

To get back to your question, these all have...

CVE-2024-26579: Apache Inlong JDBC Vulnerability Charles Zhang (May 09)
Severity: important

Affected versions:

- Apache InLong 1.7.0 through 1.10

Description:

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache InLong.This issue affects Apache InLong: from 1.7.0 through
1.11.0,

the attackers can bypass using malicious parameters.

Users are advised to upgrade to Apache InLong's 1.12.0 or cherry-pick [1], [2] to solve it.

[1] https://github.com/apache/inlong/pull/9694

[2] ...

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Dear all,

FYI:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-402579A1.pdf

Kind regards,

Job

Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? William Herrin (May 15)
The minimum (and maximum) subnet mask for a LAN in which -all- of
IPv6's technologies work right is /64. If you don't require stateless
autoconfiguration or automatic link-local addresses, you can pick any
subnet mask you want. In most cases it's desirable to have a size of
/64. In a few cases it's not.

Short version: use /64 as your IPv6 LAN subnet mask unless you clearly
understand the consequences of not doing so and...

Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Randy Bush (May 15)
not really

randy

Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Willy Manga (May 15)
.

With IPv6 when you think of assignment to end-user, it's better to think
in terms of 'use case' rather than number of hosts within a single network.

As a residential user I might have wifi, voip, TV, CCTV,,... each of
them can use its own prefix.

As a bare metal user in a datacenter , I might have different needs when
I build any internal networks.

As a corporate user, I think this one is the more obvious.

The only...

Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Willy Manga (May 15)
Hi,

You can read this article [1] . It's a more 'contemporary' approach.

1.
https://www.daryllswer.com/ipv6-architecture-and-subnetting-guide-for-network-engineers-and-operators/

Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Michel Blais (May 15)
Read about EUI-64 that is now legacy, you will understand why.

Le mer. 15 mai 2024, à 08 h 49, Adam Thompson <athompson () merlin mb ca> a
écrit :

Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Adam Thompson (May 15)
Understood, yes, but I should have been more clear: I'm talking about statically allocating my own internal /64s out of
the /56 I've reserved for my org's own use. Is there any point in using a more complex scheme than just "next!" ?
-Adam

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Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Nicolas VUILLERMET (May 15)
Hello,

The minimum addressable on a LAN is a /64. So you have to provide the
customer with a larger subnet.

Public operators in France generally deliver a /60.

The RFC gives /56, however, as customers are mobile and there is a risk
of disaggregating into PAs (or rather allowing the customer to keep his
IPs, such as DID portability), we, as operators, supply /48s directly.

Talking about the number of IPs that can be assigned in IPv6 shows a...

Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? William Herrin (May 15)
Say you have a point of presence (pop) where you serve customers,
allowing each a /56. You assign a /48 to the pop and route the /48 to
the pop rather than routing each /56 individually. Later on you get
more than 256 customers. RFC3531 says you should assign the /48 in
such a way that more often than not you can expand it to /44 without
renumbering instead of assigning another /56 and consuming another
slot in your routing table. The motivation...

Re: Small Internet border router options? Brandon Martin (May 15)
The old Foundry/Brocade CER 4X-RT series will also do if you only need 4
ports and are cheap as all get out on the secondary market, though FIB
scale is starting to become a little concerning if you need full-scale
IPv4+IPv6. The software is mature and stable though lacking some modern
niceties.

Re: Small Internet border router options? Richard Holbo (May 14)
+1 on the Ubiquiti Infinity.. I've used a number of them in various roles..
Linux based and have had 1 hardware failure after a couple years. Try to
keep bridging to a minimum as it'll eat the processor, but for routed
traffic, no issues.
/rh

RE: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Adam Thompson (May 14)
I may have mis-read it (I admit I didn’t read it all that carefully) but I think RFC3531 is talking about the strategy
for assigning /64s out of a larger pool (a /56, say).
-Adam

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Re: Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Mel Beckman (May 14)
I never could understand the motivation behind RFC3531. Just assign /64s. A single /64 subnet has
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 host addresses. It is enough. Period.

-mel

Not an IPv6 newbie by any stretch, but we still aren’t doing it “at scale” and some of you are, so…

For a very small & dense (on 128-bit scales, anyway) network, is RFC3531 still the last word in IPv6 allocation
strategies?

Right now, we’re just...

Q: is RFC3531 still applicable? Adam Thompson (May 14)
Not an IPv6 newbie by any stretch, but we still aren't doing it "at scale" and some of you are, so...

For a very small & dense (on 128-bit scales, anyway) network, is RFC3531 still the last word in IPv6 allocation
strategies?

Right now, we're just approaching it as "pick the next /64 in the range", as it all gets aggregated at the BGP border
anyway, and internally if I really try hard, I might get to 200...

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Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/healthcare-ransomware-pay-sophos/

Healthcare organizations, already an attractive target for ransomware given
the highly sensitive data they hold, saw such attacks almost double between
2020 and 2021, according to a survey released this week by Sophos.

The outfit's team also found that while polled healthcare orgs are quite
likely to pay ransoms, they rarely get all of their data returned if they
do...

A digital conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on behind the scenes of war Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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SEATTLE — On the sidelines of a conference in Estonia on Wednesday, a
senior U.S. intelligence official told British outlet Sky News that the
U.S. is running offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine.

“My job is to provide a series of options to the secretary of defense and
the president, and so that’s what I do,” said...

Researchers Uncover Malware Controlling Thousands of Sites in Parrot TDS Network Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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The Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) that came to light earlier this
year has had a larger impact than previously thought, according to new
research.

Sucuri, which has been tracking the same campaign since February 2019 under
the name "NDSW/NDSX," said that "the malware was one of the top infections"
detected in 2021, accounting for more than...

FBI, CISA: Don't get caught in Karakurt's extortion web Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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The Feds have warned organizations about a lesser-known extortion gang
Karakurt, which demands ransoms as high as $13 million and, some
cybersecurity folks say, may be linked to the notorious Conti crew.

In a joint advisory [PDF] this week, the FBI, CISA and US Treasury
Department outlined technical details about how Karakurt operates, along
with actions to take,...

DOJ Seizes 3 Web Domains Used to Sell Stolen Data and DDoS Services Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of
three domains used by cybercriminals to trade stolen personal information
and facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire.

This includes weleakinfo[.]to, ipstress[.]in, and ovh-booter[.]com, the
former of which allowed its users to traffic hacked personal data and
offered a...

Chinese Hackers Begin Exploiting Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day Vulnerability Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor aligned with Chinese state
interests has been observed weaponizing the new zero-day flaw in Microsoft
Office to achieve code execution on affected systems.

"TA413 CN APT spotted [in-the-wild] exploiting the Follina zero-day using
URLs to deliver ZIP archives which contain Word Documents that use the
technique,"...

US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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US military hackers have conducted offensive operations in support of
Ukraine, the head of US Cyber Command has told Sky News.

In an exclusive interview, General Paul Nakasone also explained how "hunt
forward" operations were allowing the United States to search out foreign
hackers and identify...

SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1, 000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as SideWinder
has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020.

"Some of the main characteristics of this threat actor that make it stand
out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence
of their attacks and the large collection of encrypted and obfuscated...

Hackers are Selling US University Credentials Online, FBI Says Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned US universities and colleges
that it has found banks of login credentials and other data relating to VPN
access circulating on cybercriminals forums.

The fear is that such data will be sold and subsequently used by malicious
actors to orchestrate attacks on other accounts owned by the same students,
in the hope...

Interpol Nabs 3 Nigerian Scammers Behind Malware-based Attacks Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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Interpol on Monday announced the arrest of three suspected global scammers
in Nigeria for using remote access trojans (RATs) such as Agent Tesla to
facilitate malware-enabled cyber fraud.

"The men are thought to have used the RAT to reroute financial
transactions, stealing confidential online connection details from
corporate organizations, including oil and gas...

U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are posing as "non-DPRK nationals" in
hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime's
malicious cyber intrusions.

That's according to a joint advisory from the U.S. Department of State, the
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FBI and NSA say: Stop doing these 10 things that let the hackers in Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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Cyber attackers regularly exploit unpatched software vulnerabilities, but
they "routinely" target security misconfigurations for initial access, so
the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its
peers have created a to-do list for defenders in today's heightened threat
environment.

CISA, the FBI and National...

Fifth of Businesses Say Cyber-Attack Nearly Broke Them Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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A fifth of US and European businesses have warned that a serious
cyber-attack nearly rendered them insolvent, with most (87%) viewing
compromise as a bigger threat than an economic downturn, according to
Hiscox.

The insurer polled over 5000 businesses in the US, UK, Ireland, France,
Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium to compile its annual Hiscox
Cyber...

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A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New
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Venezuela who resides in Venezuela, with attempted...

State of Ransomware shows huge growth in threat and impacts Matthew Wheeler (May 04)
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Sophos has released its annual survey and review of real-world ransomware
experiences in its ‘State of Ransomware 2022’ report. This shows that 66
percent of organizations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021, up from
37 percent in 2020.

The average ransom paid by organizations that had data encrypted in their...

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Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-05-14 Research via Snort-sigs (May 14)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
Talos is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from Microsoft
Corporation.

Details:
Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2024-29996:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows Common Log File System
Driver that may lead to an escalation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with:
Snort 2: GID 1, SIDs 63427 through...

Rules issue with 3.1.84.0 Norbert Furlani via Snort-sigs (May 13)
Hi,

There seems to be no ruleset snortrules-snapshot-3180 which I presume is needed to work with the latest snort Version
3.1.84.0?

I've tried subscription ruleset 3.1.47.0 but when I launch snort I get
errors in trying to load the rules .

e.g

ERROR: ./rules/snort.rules:22223 SO rule 58573 not loaded

Community rules work and load with no issue.

Do I need to compile an older rev. of snort? Or is there some way to get latest version...

Pfsense + snort Daniel Reuben via Snort-sigs (May 13)
Hello,

We currently have two IPS/IDS setup, both on LAN side with snort rules applied. We are noticing that inbound traffic is
coming from internal IPs exclusively. We would like to be able to receive internal and external IPs, what would be the
best course of action?

Would we have to create 4 ids/ips interfaces in total? LAN and WAN on one side of the network, and LAN and WAN on the
other side? If we were to do this, can we have independent...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-05-09 Research via Snort-sigs (May 09)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome,
file-other, policy-other, protocol-other and server-webapp rule sets to
provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-05-07 Research via Snort-sigs (May 07)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-other,
malware-cnc, netbios, os-windows, policy-other, protocol-dns,
server-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-05-02 Research via Snort-sigs (May 02)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the malware-cnc,
malware-other, os-windows, policy-other and server-webapp rule sets to
provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-04-30 Research via Snort-sigs (Apr 30)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-office,
malware-cnc, os-windows, policy-other, server-other and server-webapp
rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Discrepancy between NVD list and available snort rules for Rockwell equipment.. Steve Matthews (stmatthe) via Snort-sigs (Apr 29)
We have a concern from an end customer who uses a lot of Rockwell equipment..

They used this tool:
https://www.snort.org/rule_docs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_type=standard&simple_search%5Bsid_or_explanation_or_message_or_cves_cve_key_i_cont%5D=rockwell&submit_rule_search=
And found 34 rules matching Rockwell.

Then, they used this tool:...

Re: Multi Pattern Search Engine Plugin Vlad Ulmeanu via Snort-devel (Apr 29)
Hi Russ,

Sorry for the late answer. The patch wasn't meant to change the results.
Did you mean that no extra output appeared?

I narrowed down the pcap to the packet that produced the matches (link
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/15b8qw8lu2QB0K464cyOJ4wYNTOBSllrK/view?usp=sharing>).
Now we don't need `can_debug` or the deques. However, now snort doesn't
query anymore on exactly:

```
T = 0 0 0 0 243 127 95 75 189 112 255 71...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-04-24 Research via Snort-sigs (Apr 24)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome,
malware-cnc, os-windows and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage
for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-04-23 Research via Snort-sigs (Apr 23)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome,
os-windows and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging
threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Re: Multi Pattern Search Engine Plugin Russ Combs (rucombs) via Snort-devel (Apr 19)
Hey Vlad,

I built your patched lowmem and got the same results as unpatched.

I have the pcap but haven't tried a full reproduction. Please narrow it down to make it easier to focus on the problem.
Just the minimum diff from the default config, your command line, and the specific rule or rules that are required to
reproduce.

You should call the match function in the order that your algorithm generates them. Snort will figure it out from...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-04-18 Research via Snort-sigs (Apr 18)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-executable,
file-office and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-04-16 Research via Snort-sigs (Apr 16)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos is releasing detection for CVE-2024-3400 PAN-OS Command Injection
Vulnerability in GlobalProtect Gateway.

Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the server-webapp rule
sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:...

Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-04-16 Research via Snort-sigs (Apr 16)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.

Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome,
file-pdf, malware-other, os-windows and server-webapp rule sets to
provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:

https://www.snort.org/advisories

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