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Redtail Payload Analysis [Guest Diary], (Wed, Sep 9th)
SANS guest analyst detonated a RedTail Linux sample from a DShield honeypot, finding process masquerading as php-fpm, monitoring-kill behavior, and a TCP listener.
A DShield honeypot captured multi-architecture RedTail Linux executables (ARM, ARM64, i686, RISC-V, x86-64) deployed via shell scripts. Dynamic analysis of the UPX-packed, statically linked x86-64 sample (SHA-256 63be5f38...d35e) in an isolated Ubuntu 24.04 VM on Proxmox showed it renamed its process via prctl(PR_SET_NAME), killed a filesystem-monitoring process, and opened a TCP listening socket while surviving processes posed as php-fpm or PostgreSQL-like workers. Differential memory images pre- and post-execution were captured from the hypervisor for forensics.
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rosbridge_library Protocol.incoming() quadratic CPU cost in JSON fallback
rosbridge_library's Protocol.incoming() has quadratic CPU cost in its JSON fallback, enabling denial of service via crafted messages.
Evgenios Gkritsis disclosed an algorithmic-complexity defect in rosbridge_suite's rosbridge_library Protocol.incoming() JSON fallback path, classified as CWE-407/CWE-1050. The flaw exists in the current ros2 branch and was not removed by PR #1199, having been present since the fallback was introduced. Crafted input can drive quadratic CPU cost and cause denial of service.
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USN-8760-1: Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Canonical issues USN-8760-1 patching multiple Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities across numerous subsystems and CPU architectures.
Canonical published USN-8760-1 to correct several Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities that an attacker could possibly use to compromise the system. The update fixes flaws spanning UAPI, the kernel build system, ARM32, ARM64, RISC-V, S390, and x86 architectures. Patched subsystems also include the block layer, cryptographic API, Compute Acceleration Framework, Intel NPU driver, ACPI and Bluetooth drivers, and the hardware random number generator core.
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