Debian Security Advisory DSA 3739-1 (tomcat8 - security update)

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, as well as in its Debian-specific maintainer scripts. Those flaws allowed for privilege escalation, information disclosure, and remote code execution. As part of this update, several regressions stemming from...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3738-1 (tomcat7 - security update)

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, as well as in its Debian-specific maintainer scripts. Those flaws allowed for privilege escalation, information disclosure, and remote code execution. As part of this update, several regressions stemming from...

USN-3156-2: APT regression

USN-3156-1 fixed vulnerabilities in APT. It also caused a bug in unattended-upgrades on that may require manual intervention to repair. Users on Ubuntu 16.10 should run the following commands at a terminal: sudo dpkg --configure --pending sudo apt-get -f install This update fixes the problem. We...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3156-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

APT - Repository Signing Bypass via Memory Allocation Failure Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category remote exploits Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1020 == Vulnerability == When apt-get updates a repository that uses an InRelease file clearsigned Release files, this file is processed as follows: First, the InRelease file i...

Mirai Giving DDoS-as-a-Service Industry a Boost

The availability of the Mirai malware source code online isn’t a guarantee that just anyone can quickly convert it into a money-making IoT-based DDoS botnet. Researchers at Digital Shadows have been combing dark web sites such as the Hackforums where black hat Anna-Senpai dropped the Mirai code i...

Debian DSA-3733-1 : apt - security update

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that APT, the high level package manager, does not properly handle errors when validating signatures on InRelease files. An attacker able to man-in-the-middle HTTP requests to an apt repository that uses InRelease files clearsigned Release files, can ta...

APT - Repository Signing Bypass via Memory Allocation Failure

APT - Repository Signing Bypass via Memory Allocation Failure Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1020 == Vulnerability == When apt-get updates a repository that uses an InRelease file clearsigned Release files, this file is processed as follows: First, the InRelease...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3156-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : APT vulnerability (USN-3156-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3156-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that APT incorrectly handled InRelease files. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw...

USN-3156-1: APT vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that APT incorrectly handled InRelease files. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered packages...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3733-1] apt security update

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[SECURITY] [DSA 3733-1] apt security update

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DSA-3733-1 apt - security update

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CVE-2016-1252

The apt package in Debian jessie before 1.0.9.8.4, in Debian unstable before 1.4beta2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 1.0.1ubuntu2.17, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 1.2.15ubuntu0.2, and in Ubuntu 16.10 before 1.3.2ubuntu0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a repository-signing protection...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3733-1 (apt - security update)

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that APT, the high level package manager, does not properly handle errors when validating signatures on InRelease files. An attacker able to man-in-the-middle HTTP requests to an apt repository that uses InRelease files clearsigned Release files, can ta...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3733-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Flash Exploit Found in Seven Exploit Kits

A nasty Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability that was remediated in an emergency update in October 2015 was thereafter co-opted by seven exploit kits, according to an analysis published today by researchers at Recorded Future. The Adobe vulnerability, CVE-2015-7645, was also used by the Russian APT...

[SECURITY] [DLA-709-1] postgresql-9.1 update

Package : postgresql-9.1 Version : 9.1.24-0+deb7u1 Several bugs were discovered in PostgreSQL, a relational database server system. This update corrects various stability issues. 9.1.24 marks the end of life of the PostgreSQL 9.1 branch. No further releases will be made by the PostgreSQL Global...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Disclosed by Google

Microsoft followed through and today patched a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in public attacks that was disclosed by Google researchers nine days ago. The victims have yet to have been identified, but Microsoft did accuse the Sofacy APT gang of carrying out the attacks. Sofacy is general...