Oracle has released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a wide-ranging security update to address Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability more than 300 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its various enterprise products . The October release covers the gamut of Oracle 's offerings , including its flagship Database , E-Business Suite , and Fusion Middleware packages . For Database , the update addresses Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a total of three flaws . Two of the vulnerabilities ( CVE-2018-3259 and CVE-2018-3299 ) can be remotely exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability without authentication , while the third , CVE-2018-7489 , would require the user to have a Rapid Home Provisioning account to execute and is considered by far the least severe of the three . Oracle noted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that all three bugs only impact Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the server versions of Database , user clients are not considered to be vulnerable Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . For Fusion Middleware , the update will include a total of 56 CVE-listed flaws , including 12 that are remotely exploitable with CVSS base scores of 9.8 , meaning an exploit would be fairly easy to pull off and offer near total control of the target machine . Of those 12 , five were for critical flaws in WebLogic Server . Java SE will get Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability 12 security fixes , with all but one being for remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in that platform . Oracle notes Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that though the CVSS scores for the flaws are fairly high , Solaris and Linux machines running software with lower user privileges will be considered to be at a lower risk than Windows environments that typically operate with admin privileges . MySQL was the target of 38 CVE-listed bug fixes this month , through just three of those are remotely exploitable . The two most serious , CVE-2018-11776 and CVE-2018-8014 , concern remote code flaws in MySQL Enterprise Monitor . PeopleSoft will see 24 bug fixes , 21 of which can be remotely targeted and seven that would not require any user interaction . Just one of the 24 flaws was given a CVSS base score higher than 7.2. in the Oracle listing . Sun products were the subject of 19 security fixes , including two remote code execution flaws in XCP Firmware . libssh bug more like `` oh SSH… '' Once admins get Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the Oracle patches in place , they will want to take a close look at the write-up for CVE-2018-10933 , an authentication bypass for libssh that would allow an attacker to get into a target machine by sending a `` SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_SUCCESS '' message when it expects a `` SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST '' message . That means any miscreant can log in without a password or other credential . As you can imagine , this is a very bad thing . Fortunately , the bug does not affect OpenSSH – and thus does not affect the hugely widespread sshd and ssh tools – but rather applications , such as KDE and XMBC , that use libssh as a dependency .

Google 's Project Zero has again called Apple out for silently patching Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability flaws . Apple has secretly patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a bunch of high-severity bugs reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability to it by Google 's Project Zero researchers . The move has resulted in Google 's Project Zero once again calling Apple out for fixing Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability iOS and macOS security flaws without documenting them in public security advisories . While it 's good news that Apple beat Project Zero 's 90-day deadline for patching Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability or disclosing Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the bugs it finds Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , the group 's Ivan Fratric recently argued that the practice endangered users by not fully informing them why an update should be installed . This time the criticism comes from Project Zero 's Ian Beer , who 's been credited by Apple with finding Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability dozens of serious security flaws in iOS and macOS over the years . Beer posted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a blog about several vulnerabilities in iOS 7 he found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in 2014 that share commonalities with several bugs he has found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in iOS 11.4.1 , some of which he 's now released exploits for . Beer notes Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that none of the latest issues is mentioned in the iOS 12 security bulletin even though Apple did fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability them . The absence of information about them is a `` disincentive '' for iOS users to patch Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , Beer argues . `` Apple are still yet to assign CVEs Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability for these issues or publicly acknowledge that they were fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in iOS 12 , '' wrote Beer . `` In my opinion a security bulletin should mention the security bugs that were fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . Not doing so provides a disincentive for people to update Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability their devices since it appears that there were fewer security fixes than there really were . '' In other instances , such as one macOS bug Beer reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , Apple did actually assign a CVE Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , but it still hasn't updated Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the relevant security bulletin to reflect the fix . Apple similarly allocated Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability CVE-2018-4337 to another high-severity iOS bug , which was fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in iOS 12 , but is n't currently acknowledged Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in the iOS 12 security bulletin . In another case , Apple fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a bug that affected Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability iOS and macOS but didn't assign Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a CVE or mention it in the security bulletins . Not only may it be a disincentive for end-users to patch Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability iPhones and Macs , but Beer also points out Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in another bug report that the lack of public acknowledgement Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by Apple means he has no way of knowing whether the issue is a duplicate that another researcher may have already found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . As he notes Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in the blog , many of the bugs he has found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in iOS are very similar or the same as bugs found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by noted jailbreaking hackers Pangu Team .

Google 's Project Zero has again called Apple out for silently patching Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability flaws . Apple has secretly patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a bunch of high-severity bugs reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability to it by Google 's Project Zero researchers . The move has resulted in Google 's Project Zero once again calling Apple out for fixing Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability iOS and macOS security flaws without documenting them in public security advisories . While it 's good news that Apple beat Project Zero 's 90-day deadline for patching Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability or disclosing Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the bugs it finds Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , the group 's Ivan Fratric recently argued that the practice endangered users by not fully informing them why an update should be installed . This time the criticism comes from Project Zero 's Ian Beer , who 's been credited by Apple with finding Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability dozens of serious security flaws in iOS and macOS over the years . Beer posted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a blog about several vulnerabilities in iOS 7 he found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in 2014 that share commonalities with several bugs he has found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in iOS 11.4.1 , some of which he 's now released exploits for . Beer notes Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that none of the latest issues is mentioned in the iOS 12 security bulletin even though Apple did fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability them . The absence of information about them is a `` disincentive '' for iOS users to patch Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , Beer argues . `` Apple are still yet to assign CVEs Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability for these issues or publicly acknowledge that they were fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in iOS 12 , '' wrote Beer . `` In my opinion a security bulletin should mention the security bugs that were fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . Not doing so provides a disincentive for people to update Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability their devices since it appears that there were fewer security fixes than there really were . '' In other instances , such as one macOS bug Beer reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , Apple did actually assign a CVE Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , but it still hasn't updated Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the relevant security bulletin to reflect the fix . Apple similarly allocated Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability CVE-2018-4337 to another high-severity iOS bug , which was fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in iOS 12 , but is n't currently acknowledged Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in the iOS 12 security bulletin . In another case , Apple fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a bug that affected Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability iOS and macOS but didn't assign Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a CVE or mention it in the security bulletins . Not only may it be a disincentive for end-users to patch Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability iPhones and Macs , but Beer also points out Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in another bug report that the lack of public acknowledgement Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by Apple means he has no way of knowing whether the issue is a duplicate that another researcher may have already found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . As he notes Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in the blog , many of the bugs he has found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in iOS are very similar or the same as bugs found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by noted jailbreaking hackers Pangu Team .

Admins can now grab Cisco 's updates for 13 high-severity flaws affecting Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability gear that uses its IOS and IOS XE networking software . All the bugs have been rated as having a high security impact because they could be used to gain elevated privileges or jam a device with denial-of-service ( DoS ) attacks . The company also has fixes available Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability for 11 more flaws outlined in 10 advisories with a medium-severity rating , most of which also address Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability issues in IOS and IOS XE , the Linux-based train of Cisco 's popular networking operating system . The updates for the 13 high-severity IOS and IOS XE flaws are part of Cisco 's scheduled twice-yearly patch bundle for this software targeted for September . The company reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability this week that some IOS XE releases were among 88 Cisco products vulnerable to the DoS attack on Linux systems known as FragmentSmack . And earlier this month it plugged Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a critical hard-coded password bug in its video surveillance software . None of the flaws in the latest advisory is known to have been used in attacks and Cisco is n't aware of any public disclosures . Some of the higher severity flaws include a DoS flaw affecting Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the IOS XE Web UI , which could allow a remote attacker to trigger a reload of the device by sending special HTTP requests to the UI . An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this bug in IOS XE releases prior to 16.2.2 , while 16.2.2 and later require authentication . Another DoS flaw is rooted in the IPsec driver code of multiple Cisco IOS XE platforms and the Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Adaptive Security Appliance ( ASA ) . The buggy code improperly processes malformed IPsec Authentication Header ( AH ) or Encapsulating Security Payload ( ESP ) packets . `` An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by using a crafted ESP or AH packet that meets several other conditions , such as matching the IPsec SA SPI and being within the correct sequence window , '' notes Cisco . This flaw affects Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability six ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers , and two 4000 Series Integrated Routers . Cisco notes Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that its software is affected Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability if the system has been modified from its default state and configured to terminate IPsec VPN connections , such as LAN-to-LAN VPN , and remote access VPN , but not SSL VPN .