[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: openssl-1.1.0g-1.fc27

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols...

OpenSSL 1.1.0 < 1.1.0g Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of OpenSSL installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1.0g. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 1.1.0g advisory. - There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No E...

[slackware-security] openssl

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssl-1.0.2m-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: There is a carry propagating bug in the x64...

The Tor Project to Beef Up Privacy with Next-Generation of Onion Services

The Tor Project has made some significant changes to its infrastructure by improving the way the 'onion' network protects its users' privacy and security. Since the beginning, the largest free online anonymity network has been helping users browse the web anonymously, and its onion service provid...

FreeBSD : OpenSSL -- Multiple vulnerabilities (f40f07aa-c00f-11e7-ac58-b499baebfeaf)

The OpenSSL project reports : bnsqrx8xinternal carry bug on x8664 CVE-2017-3736 Severity: Moderate There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be ver...

CVE-2017-3736

There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely...

CVE-2017-3736

There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely...

Vulnerability in OpenSSL - bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64

There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible...

PT-2017-3948

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenSSL versions prior to 1.0.2m OpenSSL versions prior to 1.1.0g Description The issue is related to a carry propagating bug in the x86 64 Montgomery squaring procedure. This bug may allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to...

Hashcat v4.0 - World's Fastest and Most Advanced Password Recovery Utility

hashcat is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 200 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and OSX, and has facilities to help enable...

Fastest and Most Advanced Password Recovery Utility: Hashcat

hashcat is the world’s fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 200 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and macOS, and has facilities to help enab...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: botan-1.10.17-1.fc26

Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS \10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: botan-1.10.17-1.fc25

Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS \10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API...

Code injection

IBM System Storage Storwize V7000 Unified V7000U 1.5 and 1.6 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 126868...

ISO Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms

The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It's because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance: A number of them voiced their distrust in emails to one another, seen by Reuters, and in written comments that are part of t...

DGA-Detection - DGA Domain Detection using Bigram Frequency Analysis

More and more malware is being created with advanced blocking circumvention techniques. One of the most prevalent techniques being used is the use of Domain Generation Algorithms which periodically generates a set of Domains to contact a C&C server. The majority of these DGA domains generate rand...

Sensitive Data Access: Where Traditional UBA Solutions Fall Short – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

In today’s global information economy an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data is collected, used, exchanged, analyzed, and retained. And with that comes an ever-increasing number of accidental or intentional data breaches. Identifying inappropriate access to data is paramount in stopping a...

CVE-2017-1491

IBM QRadar Network Security 5.4 supports interaction between multiple actors and allows those actors to negotiate which algorithm should be used as a protection mechanism such as encryption or authentication, but it does not select the strongest algorithm that is available to both parties. IBM...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system from the CAF repository exists due to insufficiently robust data encryption. This vulnerability allows attackers to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Android operating system from the CAF repository is related to insufficiently robust data encryption. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information, as insecure algorithms we...

USN-3199-3: Python Crypto vulnerability

USN-3199-1 fixed a vulnerability in Python Crypto. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the ALGnew function in blocktemplace.c in the Python Cryptography Toolkit contained a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. ...