Santa Clara, California- (July 16 ,2024)- Uila Inc., the Application-centric Observability company, today announced that its Observability Platform, uObserve with its built-in Cyber Threat Detection and Protection capability can identify if the corporation’s mission-critical servers respond with the vulnerable OpenSSH versions 8.7 and 8.8, and make themselves vulnerable to total disruption.
CVE-2024-6409 is a race condition vulnerability in OpenSSH's server (sshd). This flaw occurs when the SIGALRM signal handler, which is called if a remote attacker fails to authenticate within a specified time, calls functions that are not safe to use asynchronously, such as syslog. This can potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as an unprivileged user running the sshd server. To mitigate this vulnerability, affected systems should apply updates provided by their respective vendors, as some distributions like Ubuntu have already released patches.
“Although the code execution occurs in the context of an unprivileged user running the sshd server, the attacker can still potentially gain further access or exploit other vulnerabilities to escalate their privileges. In addition, the availability impact is high, signifying that the attack can severely disrupt or disable the affected system, making it a serious concern for system administrators and organizations worldwide. This new attack on the heels of the recently discovered polyfill.io vulnerability., call for security professionals worldwide to be on top of these issues and mitigate these challenges in a timely manner, using solutions that can be on the cutting edge of fast discovery and analysis for cyber threats.” says Chia-Chee Kuan, CEO and Founder for Uila.
With Uila’s uObserve’s Cyber Threat Protection, users can:
Users who are interested in identifying this OpenSSH threat in their environment, can contact Uila to perform a free cyber threat assessment for their Data Center or Cloud environment from https://www.uila.com/uila-free-trial.
About Uila
Uila resolves Complex IT Disruptions for Enterprise Organizations with its Intelligent Application-centric Full-Stack Observability Platform, that correlates Application and Infrastructure Performance to isolate and remediate issues before business impact. With Uila, IT teams can visualize application workload dependencies across cloud platforms, rightsize infrastructure resources, troubleshoot disruptions for any onsite or remote VDI user due to application/network/infrastructure challenges, plan workload migration strategies for Cloud deployments and use AIOps to streamline troubleshooting and reduce MTTR with remediation actions. And most importantly, this is done WITHOUT any agents. Uila also allows security teams to combat advanced cyber threats, by providing comprehensive application anomaly insights, cyber threats & Data Exfiltration activities. Organizations use Uila to align themselves with their IT teams and cut MTTR from days to minutes to always keep End-User Experience at peak performance & secure, across cloud boundaries.
Contact Information
Dilip Advani
VP of Marketing
dilip.advani@uila.com
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