Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.41 and fixes the following security issues: It was found that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize input parameters while registering memory regions from user space via the uverbs API. A local user with access...

CloudFlare Deploys ChaCha20-Poly1305 Encryption Across Sites

After rolling out free SSL for its users last fall, CloudFlare has deployed a new level of encryption on its service that hardens and speeds up the user experience, especially when accessing domains via mobile browsers. The form of encryption, a relatively new transport layer cipher suite known a...

SOL15730 - OpenSSH vulnerability

The mmnewkeysfromblob function in monitorwrap.c in sshd in OpenSSH 6.2 and 6.3, when an AES-GCM cipher is used, does not properly initialize memory for a MAC context data structure, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended ForceCommand and login-shell restrictions via packet dat...

openSUSE Security Update : openssh (openSUSE-SU-2013:1726-1)

openssh was updated to fix a memory corruption when AES-GCM is used which could lead to remote code execution after successful authentication. CVE-2013-4548 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE...

openSUSE Security Update : mozilla-nss (openSUSE-SU-2013:1539-1)

Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.15.2 bnc842979 - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add PK11CipherFinal macro - sizeof used incorrectly - nssutilReadSecmodDB leaks memory - Allow...

AIX OpenSSH Vulnerability : openssh_advisory3.asc

The mmnewkeysfromblob function in monitorwrap.c in sshd in OpenSSH 6.2 and 6.3, when an AES-GCM cipher is used, does not properly initialize memory for a MAC context data structure, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended ForceCommand and login-shell restrictions via packet dat...

IBM AIX/Virtual I/O Server OpenSSH AES-GCM密文特权提升漏洞

CVE ID:CVE-2013-4548 IBM AIX是一款商业性质的操作系统。 IBM AIX / Virtual I/O Server包含的OpenSSH存在安全漏洞密钥交换过程中选择AES-GCM密文存在错误，允许恶意本地用户利用漏洞提升权限。 0 IBM AIX 5.x IBM AIX 6.x IBM AIX 7.x IBM Virtual I/O Server VIOS 1.x IBM Virtual I/O Server VIOS 2.x 厂商补丁： IBM ----- 用户可参考如下厂商提供的安全公告获取补丁以修复该漏洞：...

Facebook releases 'Conceal' API for Android developers to Encrypt data on Disk

Many Smartphone applications support, installation or app data storage to an external SD Card, that can be helpful in saving space on the internal memory, but also vulnerable to hackers. Typically, an app that has permission to read and write data from an SD card has the permission to read all da...

Facebook Conceal Java Crypto LIbrary Open Sourced

Facebook has released to open source its Conceal Java crypto libraries for Android devices. Conceal, according to Facebook, offers developers a lightweight and efficient crypto library. The social media giant developed Conceal to handle encryption of storage on removable SD cards, something that...

Fedora 18 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc18 (2013-23299)

Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM Improved Cisco interop, IKEv2 improvements, bugfixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it...

Fedora 20 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc20 (2013-23250)

Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

Fedora 19 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc19 (2013-23315)

Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM support Improved Cisco interop, IKEv2 improvements, bugfixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH AES-GCM memory corruption vulnerability Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced: 2013-11-19...

OpenSSH memory corruption

Memory corruption in AES-GCM implementation...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssh-6.4p1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. sshd8: fix a memory corruption problem triggered during rekeying when an AES-GCM cipher...

FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH AES-GCM memory corruption vulnerability Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced:...

openssh: security fix for remote code execution with AES-GCM (important)

openssh was updated to fix a memory corruption when AES-GCM is used which could lead to remote code execution after successful authentication. CVE-2013-4548...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2014-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (SAT Patch Numbers 8484 / 8485)

"Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.15.2 bnc847708 bringing various features and bugfixes : The main feature is TLS 1.2 support and its dependent algorithms. - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (SAT Patch Number 8484)

"Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.15.2 bnc847708 bringing various features and bugfixes : The main feature is TLS 1.2 support and its dependent algorithms. - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add...