Re: POC and patch for the CVE-2018-15473

2019-04-24 Thread Cameron, Frank J
Brahmanand Reddy wrote: > CVE-2018-15473 is a "user existence oracle bug which does not meet our > criteria for security advisories". > > You mean this vulnerability which will impact/affects only for Oracle > base? kindly confirm. "Oracle" in the ancient Greek sense of a person through whom a d

Re: SQLite vulnerability

2018-12-17 Thread Cameron, Frank J
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:02:36AM -0800, Hugh LaMaster wrote: > On 12/17/18 6:14 AM, Cameron, Frank J wrote: > > 'The new SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DEFENSIVE features is more of a > > defense-in-depth, designed to head off future vulnerabilities by > > making shadow-tables read-o

Re: SQLite vulnerability

2018-12-17 Thread Cameron, Frank J
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:09:37PM +0100, Piotr Kubaj via freebsd-security wrote: > Doesn't base also need to be patched? > AFAIK pkg uses sqlite database. Does pkg allow running arbitrary untrusted SQL? 'The vulnerability only exists in applications that allow a potential attacker to run arbitr

Re: Intel hardware bug

2018-01-05 Thread Cameron, Frank J
Andrew Duane wrote: > I wouldn't think Javascript would have the accurate timing required to > leverage this attack, but I don't really know enough about the language. "The performance.now() method returns a DOMHighResTimeStamp, measured in milliseconds, accurate to five thousandths of a milliseco

Re: Intel hardware bug

2018-01-05 Thread Cameron, Frank J
Eric McCorkle wrote: > On 01/05/2018 11:40, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > POWER has the same thing. It's actually stronger separation, since user > > processes don't share addresses either -- all processes, including the > > kernel, have windowed access to an 80-bit address space, so no process > > c