NAS-maker Synology reveals new remote code execution vulnerabilities
Synology hasn’t yet patched the devices, while the upstream library has
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Synology, the Taiwan-based maker ofnetwork-attached storage (NAS)devices, has revealed that some of its devices are susceptible to the vulnerabilitiesreported by OpenSSLearlier in the week.
OpenSSL, theopen sourcesoftware library for securing communications, disclosed a couple of bugs, which Synology now says could manifest themselves as remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS) bugs in its devices.
“Multiple vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to conduct denial-of-service attack or execute arbitrary code via a susceptible version ofSynology DiskStation Manager(DSM), Synology Router Manager (SRM),VPNPlus Server or VPN Server,” notesSynology in its advisory.
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Earlier in the month, Synologyalerted its usersof an on-going campaign that’s targeting its devices in a brute-force attack. Although this latest campaign wasn’t thought to exploit any software vulnerabilities, attackers are always on the lookout for exploitable vulnerabilities, such as the ones Synology has inherited from OpenSSL.
In a fix
Interestingly, while the two bugs that impact OpenSSL, tracked asCVE-2021-3711andCVE-2021-3712, have already been fixed upstream, Synology hasn’t yet published a timeline for patching its impacted devices.
According to its security advisory, the availability of a fix for the affected devices is listed either as “Pending” or “Ongoing.”
Although Synology hasn’t provided an exact date or even a timeline for issuing a patched firmware for the vulnerable devices, the company has earlier toldBleepingComputerthat it usually patches affected software within 90 days of the publication of the security advisory.
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With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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