Category Archives: Advisories

ZDI-24-1613: Intel Driver & Support Assistant Log Folder Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Intel Driver & Support Assistant. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-36488.

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USN-7091-2: Ruby vulnerabilities

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USN-7091-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Ruby. This update provides the
corresponding update for ruby2.7 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document
that has specific XML characters in an attribute value using REXML gem. An
attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. This issue only affected in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu
24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-35176, CVE-2024-39908, CVE-2024-41123)

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document
that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. An attacker
could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2024-41946)

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document
that has many digits in a hex numeric character reference. An attacker
could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2024-49761)

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