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Tag: Cisco

Cisco Blog Awards

Nominated for the IT Blog Awards

December 10, 2018 Media, News Leave a comment

This morning, I received a mail from Cisco to tell me that I’ve been nominated as finalist for their IT Blog Awards (Category: “Most Inspirational”). I’m maintaining this blog just for the fun and to share useful (I hope) information with my readers and don’t do this to get rewards

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SANS ISC

[SANS ISC] “OG” Tools Remain Valuable

October 10, 2018 Incident Management, SANS Internet Storm Center, Security Leave a comment

I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “‘OG’ Tools Remain Valuable“: For vendors, the cybersecurity landscape is a nice place to make a very lucrative business. New solutions and tools are released every day and promise you to easily detect malicious activities on your networks. And it’s a recurring story.

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Online Router Forensics Lab

September 30, 2014 Forensics, Hardware, Security One comment

When my friend Didier Stevens contacted me last year to help him with a BruCON 5×5 project, I simply could not decline! Didier developed a framework to perform forensic investigations on Cisco routers. His framework is called NAFT (“Network Appliance Forensic Toolkit”). It is written in Python and provides a

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Integrating OpenERP Within a Cisco IP Phone

November 5, 2013 Software 8 comments

For once, this article is not directly related to “infosec“. My blog  isn’t called “/dev/random” for nothing, right? In parallel to my dayly job as an Information Security Consultant and my blogger experience at night, I’m also doing business via my own company, TrueSec (<advertising>Feel free to contact me if you’re

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Cisco Routers : Penguins Inside?

April 16, 2008 Net, Software, Unix Leave a comment

It has been officially announced by Cisco: Application eXtension Platform (AXP) enhances the capabilities of the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) by enabling a tighter integration between the branch network, IT and application infrastructure. Ok, what does it mean? High-end routers were already able to run TCL scripts. Now, thanks

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Cisco Acquired Sguil

April 1, 2008 Net, Security, Software Leave a comment

Announced on TaoSecurity, Cisco acquired Sguil. Sguil is a monitoring tool for network security anaylists. It provides realtime traffic analysis and goes deeper up to the raw packet level. Why is Sguild a nice opportinity for Cisco? It’s developed in TCL and high-end Cisco routers and switches have TCL builtin!

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RSS NVD Vulnerabilities Feed

  • CVE-2022-30580 (go) August 10, 2022
    Code injection in Cmd.Start in os/exec before Go 1.17.11 and Go 1.18.3 allows execution of any binaries in the working directory named either "..com" or "..exe" by calling Cmd.Run, Cmd.Start, Cmd.Output, or Cmd.CombinedOutput when Cmd.Path is unset.
  • CVE-2022-28881 (atlant, cloud_protection_for_salesforce, elements_collaboration_protection, elements_endpoint_detection_and_response, elements_endpoint_protection, internet_gatekeeper, linux_security, linux_security_64) August 10, 2022
    A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure Atlant whereby the aerdl.dll component used in certain WithSecure products unpacker function crashes which leads to scanning engine crash. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker.
  • CVE-2022-20361 (android) August 10, 2022
    In btif_dm_auth_cmpl_evt of btif_dm.cc, there is a possible vulnerability in Cross-Transport Key Derivation due to Weakness in Bluetooth Standard. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10 Android-11 Android-12 Android-12LAndroid ID: A-231161832
  • CVE-2022-20356 (android) August 10, 2022
    In shouldAllowFgsWhileInUsePermissionLocked of ActiveServices.java, there is a possible way to start foreground service from background due to improper input validation. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-11 Android-12 Android-12LAndroid ID: A-215003903
  • CVE-2022-20357 (android) August 10, 2022
    In writeToParcel of SurfaceControl.cpp, there is a possible information disclosure due to uninitialized data. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-12 Android-12LAndroid ID: A-214999987
  • CVE-2022-20358 (android) August 10, 2022
    In startSync of AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter.java, there is a possible way to access protected content of content providers due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10 Android-11 Android-12 Android-12LAndroid ID: A-203229608
  • CVE-2022-20359 August 10, 2022
    ** REJECT ** DO NOT USE THIS CVE RECORD. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This record was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none.
  • CVE-2022-20360 (android) August 10, 2022
    In setChecked of SecureNfcPreferenceController.java, there is a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege from the guest user with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10 Android-11 Android-12 Android-12LAndroid ID: A-228314987
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