Monthly Archives: June 2023

News

Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite

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Paragon Solutions is yet another Israeli spyware company. Their product is called “Graphite,” and is a lot like NSO Group’s Pegasus. And Paragon is working with what seems to be US approval:

American approval, even if indirect, has been at the heart of Paragon’s strategy. The company sought a list of allied nations that the US wouldn’t object to seeing deploy Graphite. People with knowledge of the matter suggested 35 countries are on that list, though the exact nations involved could not be determined. Most were in the EU and some in Asia, the people said.

Remember when NSO Group was banned in the US a year and a half ago? The Drug Enforcement Agency uses Graphite.

We’re never going to reduce the power of these cyberweapons arms merchants by going after them one by one. We need to deal with the whole industry. And we’re not going to do it as long as the democracies of the world use their products as well.

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Advisories

USN-6146-1: Netatalk vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of
user-supplied data in the DSI structures. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking the programs. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu
22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-31439)

It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of
user-supplied data in the ad_addcomment function. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-0194)

It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly handle errors when parsing
AppleDouble entries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-23121)

It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of
user-supplied data in the setfilparams function. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-23122)

It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of
user-supplied data in the getdirparams function. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04
LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-23123)

It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of
user-supplied data in the get_finderinfo function. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-23124)

It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of
user-supplied data in the copyapplfile function. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04
LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-23125)

It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of
user-supplied data in the dsi_writeinit function. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu
22.10. (CVE-2022-43634)

It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly manage memory under
certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted .appl file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-45188)

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