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Writer. Father. Husband. Blogger. History buff. Heavy Metal fanatic. Rebellious Catholic. Frequent traveler. In his day job, Brenner writes about threats to Internet security as seen from his vantage point as Senior Security Tech Writer at Akamai Technologies research center. He also blogs about the wider security industry at Liquidmatrix.org and writes about mental health issues at theocddiaries.com. Opinions are his own.
Articles by Bill Brenner
More SolarWinds Attack Details Emerge
Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor at Dark Reading,  1/12/2021
Vulnerability Management Has a Data Problem
Tal Morgenstern, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Vulcan Cyber,  1/14/2021
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CVE-2021-22850
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
HGiga EIP product lacks ineffective access control in certain pages that allow attackers to access database or perform privileged functions.
CVE-2021-22851
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
HGiga EIP product contains SQL Injection vulnerability. Attackers can inject SQL commands into specific URL parameter (document management page) to obtain database schema and data.
CVE-2021-22852
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
HGiga EIP product contains SQL Injection vulnerability. Attackers can inject SQL commands into specific URL parameter (online registration) to obtain database schema and data.
CVE-2021-3178
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
** DISPUTED ** fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c in the Linux kernel through 5.10.8, when there is an NFS export of a subdirectory of a filesystem, allows remote attackers to traverse to other parts of the filesystem via READDIRPLUS. NOTE: some parties argue that such a subdirectory export is not intended to preven...
CVE-2021-3177
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-19
Python 3.x through 3.9.1 has a buffer overflow in PyCArg_repr in _ctypes/callproc.c, which may lead to remote code execution in certain Python applications that accept floating-point numbers as untrusted input, as demonstrated by a 1e300 argument to c_double.from_param. This occurs because sprintf i...