Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a local malicious individual to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The loop-aes-modules-2.6-vserver-k7 package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by local...

New Utility Decrypts Files Lost to TeslaCrypt Ransomware

Crypto-ransomware variants have enterprises on edge because of the threat of irreversibly damaged files. Some organizations, including most recently the Tewksbury, Ma., police department have gone as far as to pay hundreds of dollars in ransom for the recovery key. Some technology companies are...

Not found the rear door: open source encryption software TrueCrypt security audit-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

TrueCrypt is a popular open source file encryption software, which the user includes a large number of“sensitive persons”, such as businessmen, politicians, journalists, and therefore its safety has been well received by the attention. 2 0 1 4 年 5 months, the open source encryption software...

CVE-2015-0290

The multi-block feature in the ssl3writebytes function in s3pkt.c in OpenSSL 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a on 64-bit x86 platforms with AES NI support does not properly handle certain non-blocking I/O cases, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service pointer corruption and application crash...

Vulnerability in OpenSSL - Multiblock corrupted pointer

Multiblock corrupted pointer. OpenSSL 1.0.2 introduced the “multiblock” performance improvement. This feature only applies on 64 bit x86 architecture platforms that support AES NI instructions. A defect in the implementation of “multiblock” can cause OpenSSL’s internal write buffer to become...

CVE-2015-0290

The multi-block feature in the ssl3writebytes function in s3pkt.c in OpenSSL 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a on 64-bit x86 platforms with AES NI support does not properly handle certain non-blocking I/O cases, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service pointer corruption and application crash...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150311)

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 to a /dev/infiniband/uverbsX device could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate...

Maligno v2.0 - Metasploit Payload Server

Maligno is an open source penetration testing tool written in Python that serves Metasploit payloads. It generates shellcode with msfvenom and transmits it over HTTP or HTTPS. The shellcode is encrypted with AES and encoded prior to transmission. Maligno also comes with a client tool, which...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AFALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salgname field, as demonstrated by the vfataes expression, a different vulnerability than...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2513-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

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...

TrueCrypt Audit Cryptanalysis Handed Off to NCC Group

The stagnant TrueCrypt audit stirred to life in the last 24 hours with the announcement that the second phase of the audit, tasked with examining the cryptography behind the open source disk encryption software, will begin shortly. NCC Group’s Cryptography Services has been contracted to do the...

Oracle-Database-Authentication

Oracle Database is prone to a remote security-bypass vulnerability that affects the authentication protocol. An attacker can exploit this issue to bypass the authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the database. This vulnerability affects Oracle Database 11g Release 1 and 11g Relea...

CVE-2014-9644

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AFALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salgname field, as demonstrated by the vfataes expression, a different vulnerability than...

CoinVault Ransomware Betting on Hope with Free File Decrypt

UPDATE: A prior version of this story incorrectly defined VSS as vulnerability scanning systems when in fact it refers to volume shadow copy service, which is a Windows automatic data backup and recovery mechanism. Thanks to commenter Rudy for pointing this out. The courteous CoinVault ransomware...

[CVE-2 0 1 4-3 1 0 0]Android KeyStore stack overflow vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

CVE-2 0 1 4-3 1 0 0 is Android platform KeyStore to a stack overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability is the last 9 month by IBM of the two engineers found and reported to Google, in year 6, on 2 3, is disclosed. After the public, Google also released a vulnerability test code. So what is a...

SSH Encryption and Connection Process

SSH Encryption and Connection Process Introduction SSH, or secure shell, is a secure protocol and the most common way of safely administering remote servers. Using a number of encryption technologies, SSH provides a mechanism for establishing a cryptographically secured connection between two...

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...

Fedora 19 : python-elixir-0.7.1-14.fc19 (2014-9752)

CVE-2012-2146 The 'actsasencrypted' feature of Elixir does not correctly initialize the random seed for the Blowfish encryption algorithm, and is therefore insecure. This option adds a new optional AES mode which does not suffer this problem, plus a warning is now printed when insecure Blowfish...

Fedora 20 : python-elixir-0.7.1-14.fc20 (2014-9763)

CVE-2012-2146 The 'actsasencrypted' feature of Elixir does not correctly initialize the random seed for the Blowfish encryption algorithm, and is therefore insecure. This option adds a new optional AES mode which does not suffer this problem, plus a warning is now printed when insecure Blowfish...