Code Dx Now Available in Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud Marketplace

Bitnami has included Code Dx in the first wave of applications published to Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud Marketplace. Code Dx provides comprehensive tools for software development professionals and quality assurance experts to test applications for vulnerabilities, pinpointing issues in the actual code.

With the recent attention and focus on application security—along with the tools Code Dx provides to ensure software development compliance with standards found in regulations like the DISA-STIG—government and eligible private entities alike will benefit from the greater availability and utility offered by the Azure Government Cloud platform.

With lightweight, secure access to cloud-based, physically isolated instances of Code Dx, users can quickly aggregate the results of multiple analysis tools, compare them to a wide range of industry security standards (such as OWASP Top 10), and triage identified vulnerabilities based on severity. With deployment on the Azure Government Cloud Marketplace, both new and existing users can access Code Dx on this new platform in addition to the various other deployment options already available.

For government and government-affiliated agencies, this represents a secure solution to a complex problem, but private entities also have to contend with vulnerability identification, management, and remediation, as well as ensuring compliance with regulations like HIPAA. Deployment on the Azure Government Cloud Marketplace platform gives these users the same benefits of security and cloud-based access.

To spread awareness about application security—what developers, government organizations, and security professionals need to know about it, how it’s different from network security, and what needs to be the focus in the future—and to explain some of the highlights of Code Dx’s utility, Bitnami and Code Dx are hosting a webinar on December 6, 2016, at 10 AM PST. To register, visit https://bitnami.com/webinar/codedx.

Guest blog post by: Ken Prole, CTO of Code Dx

Bitnami Releases Two Amazon RDS Offerings!

Bitnami, one of the leading providers of open source software in the AWS Marketplace, is excited to announce two new offerings using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Wordpress Multi-Tier with Amazon RDS for MariaDB and Redmine Multi-Tier with Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Wordpress, a popular Content Management System (CMS) and Redmine, a flexible and richly configurable project management platform, are excellent additions to any business’ needs in the cloud. 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business.  With Amazon RDS, you can deploy a scalable MariaDB database, a popular open source relational database created by the original developers of MySQL.

Tighter integration with Amazon’s managed database offering in the cloud allows customers to take advantage of that same value with the expertise of Amazon Web Services managing the infrastructure for critical data in the cloud. These two new offerings use Amazon CloudFormation Templates created by Bitnami to orchestrate the application’s resources for the deployment. Users will be able to configure architecture suited to their needs and launch an environment into their AWS Account. All of the data required to get up and running will be pre-populated and ready for use upon deployment. 

Bitnami’s applications are trusted for their ability to provide the most up-to-date and patched versions of popular open source applications, consistently and expediently after release.  Using Bitnami’s Cloud Formation Templates allows customers to receive all of these Bitnami benefits while also being able to have an environment that incorporates the scalability and ease of use of Cloud Formation Templates.

Bitnami is excited to deepen our partnership with Amazon Web Services and our customers through the AWS Marketplace. We look forward to continuing to provide more value for our users and receiving your feedback on these applications. Please reach out to us directly if you have any requests or would like to see your applications available with Amazon RDS. You can reach out to us at enterprise@bitnami.com.

MySQL / MariaDB: Privilege Escalation / Race Condition / Root Privilege Escalation (CVE-2016-6663 and CVE-2016-6664)

Several new security vulnerabilities that affect some versions of MySQL and MariaDB were announced recently:

We want to let you know that all the published Bitnami Stacks that include MySQL or MariaDB as the database server are not affected, since they are using non-affected versions of the component.

CVE-2016-6663

The vulnerability can allow a local system user with access to the affected database in the context of a low-privileged account (CREATE/INSERT/SELECT grants) to escalate their privileges and execute arbitrary code as the database system user.

Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to gain access to all of the databases stored on the affected database server.

Affected versions:

MariaDB 

< 5.5.52

< 10.1.18

        < 10.0.28

MySQL  

<= 5.5.51

<= 5.6.32

<= 5.7.14

More information about this issue can be found at the following link: https://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Maria-Percona-PrivEscRace-CVE-2016-6663-5616-Exploit.html

CVE-2016-6664

MySQL-based databases including MySQL, MariaDB and Percona are affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability which can let attackers who have gained access to mysql system user to further escalate their privileges to root user allowing them to fully compromise the system.

The vulnerability stems from unsafe file handling of error logs and other files.

Affected versions:

MySQL  

<= 5.5.51

<= 5.6.32

<= 5.7.14

MariaDB

All current

More information about this issue can be found at the following link: https://legalhackers.com/advisories/MySQL-Maria-Percona-RootPrivEsc-CVE-2016-6664-5617-Exploit.html

Are you using an affected version of the server or do you have questions about the security issue? Please post to our community forum and we will be happy to help you.