MiniDuke Espionage Malware Hits Governments in Europe Using Adobe Exploits

New espionage malware has been discovered that targets a patched sandbox-bypass vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The attacks have hit a relatively small number of government victims in 23 countries, primarily in Europe, and rely on a string of unusual tactics, including the use of steganography to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1732-1)

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...

Atmel "secure" crypto co-processor series microprocessors (AT91SAM7XC) leaking keys, plus bonus DESFire hack

The Atmel AT91SAM7XC series of microprocessors contain a crypto co-processor which is DES and AES capable. They include a write-only memory for key storage and multiple physical security measures to prevent decapping etc. However, due to poor memory management, in certain circumstances it is...

openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a bug in openssl-1.0.1d. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.1e-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes a regression in openssl-1.0.1d, where the fix for...

OpenSSL 1.0.1 < 1.0.1d Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of OpenSSL installed on the remote host is prior to 1.0.1d. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 1.0.1d advisory. - OpenSSL before 0.9.8y, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0k, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1d does not properly perform signature verification for OCSP...

CVE-2012-2686

crypto/evp/eaescbchmacsha1.c in the AES-NI functionality in the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted CBC data...

CVE-2012-2686

crypto/evp/eaescbchmacsha1.c in the AES-NI functionality in the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted CBC data...

Code injection

crypto/evp/eaescbchmacsha1.c in the AES-NI functionality in the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted CBC data...

CVE-2012-2686

crypto/evp/eaescbchmacsha1.c in the AES-NI functionality in the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted CBC data...

CVE-2012-2686

crypto/evp/eaescbchmacsha1.c in the AES-NI functionality in the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted CBC data...

CVE-2012-2686

crypto/evp/eaescbchmacsha1.c in the AES-NI functionality in the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted CBC data...

Vulnerability in OpenSSL - TLS 1.1 and 1.2 AES-NI crash

A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of CBC ciphersuites in TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 on AES-NI supporting platforms can be exploited in a DoS attack. Found by Adam Langley and Wolfgang Ettlinger...

OpenSSL TLS 1.1 and 1.2 AES-NI DoS

The AES-NI implementation of OpenSSL 1.0.1c does not properly compute the length of an encrypted message when used with a TLS version 1.1 or above. This leads to an integer underflow which can cause a DoS. The vulnerable function aesnicbchmacsha1cipher is only included in the 64-bit versions of...

OpenSSL -- TLS 1.1, 1.2 denial of service

OpenSSL security team reports: A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of CBC mode ciphersuites in TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 on AES-NI supporting platforms can be exploited in a DoS attack. A flaw in the OpenSSL handling of OCSP response verification can be exploited in a denial of service attack...

Android MDK Trojan Found Lurking in 11K Apps, Using AES Encryption

Android.Troj.mdk, the Trojan botnet that last week was reported to have infected one million devices, mainly Chinese Android phones, is a new variant of a separate strain of malware, Backscript, researchers say. Both variants of malware use the same certificate to sign APKs, yet Troj.mdk MDK uses...

Mozilla Januarys (important)

The Mozilla January 8th 2013 security release contains updates: Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 18.0. Mozilla Seamonkey was updated to version 2.15. Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to version 17.0.2. Mozilla XULRunner was updated to version 17.0.2. MFSA...

Potential for Signature Integrity Compromise and HMAC secret recovery in Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) Cryptography Domain

Summary: The cryptography CP domain in Intel’s newest version of Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives Intel® IPP v7.1.1 has been enhanced to improve its security and customers are strongly urged to update to this release. Description: Intel IPP v7.1.1 introduces Intel® AVX & Intel® AVX2...

Beaker information leakage

Information leakage in AES ECB mode...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2541-1] beaker security update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2541-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Raphael Geissert September 07, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Windows 8 Security flaw : Logon Passwords Stores in Plain Text

Windows 8 is the first operating system from Microsoft to support alternative non-biometric authentication mechanisms such as Picture Password and PIN. A vulnerability discovered by a password security vendor - "Passcape" in Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system that it saves a log on password i...