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Security: Side-Channel Attack, SystemD, Security Think Tank, GNU Binutils, SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT), Fiat-Chrysler

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 12th of January 2019 06:03:52 PM Filed under
Security
  • Side-Channel Attack Targets Windows, Linux
  • Linux system faces a couple of memory corruption bugs
  • Security Think Tank: How to use SDN, containers and encryption – and some warnings

    Now that the Christmas and New Year festivities are finished, it is time take a serious look at the networks that underpin your company’s activities and how to prevent rogue code (malware, ransomware, viruses) from running amok. Can software-defined networks and containerisation of services provide a valuable helping hand?

    If you are running virtualised servers in your network, you have probably found that it is easier to create a new virtual server running a dedicated application than running multiple applications on one server.

  • GNU Binutils load_specific_debug_section Integer Overflow Vulnerability [CVE-2018-20671]

    A vulnerability in the load_specific_debug_section function in GNU Binutils could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system.The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the load_specific_debug_section function, as defined in the objdump.c source code file of the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing the objdump command to cause an integer overflow condition, which could trigger a heap-based buffer overflow condition. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a DoS condition.Proof-of-concept (PoC) code that demonstrates an exploit of this vulnerability is publicly available.The vendor has confirmed the vulnerability and released a software patch.

  • GNU Binutils demangle_template Function Integer Overflow Vulnerability [CVE-2018-20673]
  • Investigate and fight cyberattacks with SIFT Workstation

    SANS has a smorgasbord of DFIR training, and we also offer a free Linux distribution for DFIR work. Our SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT) Workstation is a powerful collection of tools for examining forensic artifacts related to file system, registry, memory, and network investigations. It is also available bundled as a virtual machine (VM), and includes everything one needs to conduct any in-depth forensic investigation or response investigation.

  • Supreme Court refuses to hear Fiat Chrysler appeal in Jeep hacking case

    A year later, they were back to show what they could have done if they’d continued to work on the attack in secret, as malicious hackers might have done. Namely, in spite of Fiat-Chrysler’s patch, Miller and Valasek came up with yet another attack in which they managed to spin a steering wheel 90 degrees while the car was traveling at 60 mph. Another year, another Jeep stuck in a ditch next to a cornfield.

    The plaintiffs in the class action suit, filed against the US subsidiary of Fiat-Chrysler and the manufacturer of the uConnect software, contend that the company knew about the vulnerability for three years and failed to fix it.

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