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For the January Elevation of Privilege (Local Privilege Escalation) – Linux Kernel (CVE-2024-1086), the write-up and PoC were released on March 26

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For the January Elevation of Privilege (Local Privilege Escalation) - Linux Kernel (CVE-2024-1086), the write-up and PoC were released on March 26
For the January Elevation of Privilege (Local Privilege Escalation) - Linux Kernel (CVE-2024-1086), the write-up and PoC were released on March 26

For the January Elevation of Privilege (Local Privilege Escalation) – Linux Kernel (CVE-2024-1086), the write-up and PoC were released on March 26. The video demo for the script looks impressive: they run the script as a regular user and after a couple of seconds they get a root shell. According to the author, the exploit works with most Linux kernels between versions 5.14 and 6.6, including Debian, Ubuntu and KernelCTF.

🔻 The exploit requires kconfig CONFIG_USER_NS=y; sh command sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 1; kconfig CONFIG_NF_TABLES=y. The author writes that this is the default for Debian, Ubuntu, and KernelCTF, and for other distributions it is necessary to test it.
🔹 The exploit does not work with kernels v6.4> with kconfig CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y (including Ubuntu v6.5)

NSFOCUS writes that Redhat is also vulnerable. 🤷‍♂️

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A few words about Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing” 2018

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A few words about Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing” 2018. February and March are the hot months for marketing reports. I already wrote about IDC and Forrester reports about Vulnerability Management-related markets. And this Monday, March 19, Gartner released new “Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing”. You can buy it on the official website for $ 1,995.00 USD or download it for free from the vendor’s sites. For example, Synopsys or Positive Technologies. Thank you, dear vendors, for this opportunity!

I’m not an expert in Application Security. I am more in Device Vulnerability Assessment (IDC term) or Vulnerability Management. However, these field are related. And well-known Vulnerability Management vendors often have products or functionality for Web Application scanning and Source Code analysis as well. Just see Qualys, Rapid7 and Positive Technologies at the picture!

Gartner AST MQ 2018

I have already mentioned in previous posts that grouping products in marketing niches is rather mysterious process for me. For example, Gartner AST niche is for SAST, DAST and IAST products:

  • SAST is for source code or binary analysis
  • DAST is basically a black box scanning of deployed applications. it can be also called WAS (Web Application Scanning)
  • IAST is a kind of analysis that requires agent in the test runtime environment. Imho, this thing is still a pretty exotic.

As you can see, these are very different areas. But, the market is the same – AST.

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What’s new in Gartner WAF Magic Quadrant 2017?

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What’s new in Gartner WAF Magic Quadrant 2017? To tell the truth, I was not much interested in Web Application Firewall market since the time when I was doing competitive analysis in Positive Technologies. And a few days ago Gartner published a fresh WAF research with interesting Magic Quadrants. I decided to figure out what’s new there.

Here you can download full Gartner WAF MQ 2017 report for free. Thanks to Positive Technologies for such an opportunity!

First of all, let’s look at the illustrations. I took the Magic Quadrant from this year’s report:

Gartner Magic Quadrant WAF 2017

And for comparison from 2014 and 2015 reports:

Gartner Magic Quadrant WAF 2014 and 2015.

The first thing that caught my eye was Akamai in the leaders! And apparently this will be the main message.

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