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Security: Updates/Patches and Chinese Mawlare on Top of US Malware (iOS/Android)

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 4th of July 2019 08:26:42 AM Filed under
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  • Security updates for Wednesday

    Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdns), Fedora (kernel and kernel-headers), Mageia (cgit and firefox), Oracle (libssh2 and qemu-kvm), Red Hat (openstack-ironic-inspector, openstack-tripleo-common, and qemu-kvm-rhev), Scientific Linux (libssh2 and qemu-kvm), SUSE (bzip2, cronie, libtasn1, nmap, php7, php72, python-Twisted, and taglib), and Ubuntu (thunderbird and znc).

  • Google Releases July 2019's Android Security Patch to Fix over 30 Security Flaws

    Google has released today the Android Security Patch for July 2019 for all supported Pixel devices to address the latest security issues, fix bugs, and add various improvements.

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    Apart from all the security fixes, the Android Security Patch for July 2019 also fixes various bugs for supported Pixel devices. As such, it improves the "OK Google" hotword and music detection on Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL devices, and addresses an issue for some Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL devices getting stuck during boot.

    Moreover, Google fixed an issue on Pixel 3, Pixel 3, XL, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 3a XL devices getting stuck in EDL mode with a blank screen, improves Unicode Japanese language support for Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 3a XL devices, and improves the performance of the Titan M module on the Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 3a XL.

    The Android Security Patch for July 2019 is now rolling out to all supported Pixel devices, including the Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 3a XL, and it should also be available shortly for other Android devices from major manufacturers like Essential, Sony, and others. The rollout will take a few days to arrive to all users, so make sure you update as soon as possible.

  • Chinese Border Agents Now Installing Malware On Foreigners' Cellphones

    It's a pretty open intrusion. The malware makes no attempt to hide itself. It even places an icon on the device's application screen. The app has been uploaded by Motherboard and analysis shows this may possibly be for the convenience of the person scanning the phone. The app is sideloaded by border agents, who run a scan and search for the targeted content. Once this is done, those files can be viewed/exfiltrated and the app uninstalled. Also, soon after the article was published, most of the major anti-malware providers started flagging this software.

    It's all part of the surveillance regime the Chinese government has directed towards the Uighur population in Xinjiang. Only now it's spread past the historically-oppressed population to visitors to the region. Pretty much anyone travelling into the region via certain checkpoints is subject to device seizures and malware installation.

  • VMware begins patching process for Linux SACK vulnerabilities

    The two flaws, SACK Panic (CVE-2019-11477) and SACK Excess Resource Usage (CVE-2019-11478), were originally found and disclosed by Netflix researchers, along with two Linux bugs.

    “These issues may allow a malicious entity to execute a denial of service attack against affected products, warns a July 2 company security advisory that collectively rates the vulnerabilities as important in severity. (SACK Panic has a CVSSv3 base score of 7.5, while SACK Excess Resource Usage has a score of 5.3.)

    As of July 3, 11:30 a.m. ET, patches were available for SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud, SD-WAN Gateway by VeloCloud, SD-WAN Orchestrator by VeloCloud, Unified Access Gateway and vCenter Server Appliance, and workarounds were available for Unified Access Gateway and vCloud Director for Service Providers.

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