SuSE 11.2 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SAT Patch Number 8545)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to the 17.0.10ESR release, fixing various bugs and security issues : - Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption und...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (SAT Patch Number 8545)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to the 17.0.10ESR release, fixing various bugs and security issues : - Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption und...

12 Flaws Fixed in Google Chrome

Google has fixed 12 security vulnerabilities in Chrome, including six high-risk bugs. The new version of the browser includes a number of fixes for bugs discovered by external researchers as well as by Google’s own internal security team. Two of the more serious vulnerabilities patched in Chrome...

Stealing PIN Codes With a Wink and a Nod

Security researchers have developed a number of different methods to steal or bypass the passcodes on most of the common mobile phone platforms, some of which rely on software bugs and others that are simple social engineering techniques. Now, a pair of researchers from the University of Cambridg...

CVE-2013-4270

The netctlpermissions function in net/sysctlnet.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.5 does not properly determine uid and gid values, which allows local users to bypass intended /proc/sys/net restrictions via a crafted application...

Internet Bug Bounty Pays $5,000 for Severe Bugs

A bounty program begun by a bevy of industry heavyweights, including Microsoft and Facebook, will pay good money to white hats, researchers and even aspiring young hackers who find bugs in any of a dozen technologies central to the vitality and trustworthiness of the Internet. Dubbed the Internet...

CVE-2012-4503

cmdmon.c in Chrony before 1.29 allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from stack memory via vectors related to 1 an invalid subnet in a RPYSUBNETSACCESSED command to the handlesubnetsaccessed function or 2 a RPYCLIENTACCESSES command to the handleclientaccesses functi...

CVE-2013-4453

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in templates/login.php in LDAP Account Manager LAM 4.3 and 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the language parameter...

CVE-2013-4435

Salt aka SaltStack 0.15.0 through 0.17.0 allows remote authenticated users who are using external authentication or client ACL to execute restricted routines by embedding the routine in another routine...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:25.0 / rv:24.1 / rv:17.0.10) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in processbug.cgi in Bugzilla 4.4.x before 4.4.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify bugs via vectors involving a midair-collision token...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2013:1436 centos6

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...

CVE-2013-4397

Multiple integer overflows in the thread function in lib/block.c in libtar before 1.2.20 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long 1 name or 2 link in an archive, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow...

SCADA ICS Bug Expose Critical Infrastructure to Attack

A trio of researchers have uncovered 25 security vulnerabilities in various supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA and industrial control system ICS protocols. The researchers, Adam Crain, Chris Sistrunk, and Adam Todorski–though Todorski has not yet been credited with finding any of the...

Google Fixes Three High-Risk Flaws in Chrome

There is a trio of high-risk security vulnerabilities in Google Chrome that have been patched in a new version of the browser released on Tuesday. The vulnerabilities all are use-after-free bugs, and Google paid a total of $5,000 in rewards to researchers who discovered and reported them. Google...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sudo on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130930)

A flaw was found in the way sudo handled time stamp files. An attacker able to run code as a local user and with the ability to control the system clock could possibly gain additional privileges by running commands that the victim user was allowed to run via sudo, without knowing the victim's...

Oracle Linux 5 : sssd (ELSA-2013-1319)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1319 advisory. - Resolves: rhbz959838 - CVE-2013-0219 sssd: TOCTOU race conditions by copying and removing directory trees Tenable has extracted the preceding description bloc...

Congratulations to James Forshaw Recipient of Our First $100,000 Bounty for New Mitigation Bypass Techniques!

Congratulations to James Forshaw for coming up with a new exploitation technique to get our first ever $100,000 bounty. A security vulnerability researcher with Context Information Security, James already came in hot with design level bugs he found during the IE11 Preview Bug Bounty, and we’re...

libipa_hbac, sssd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1319 Updated sssd packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVS...

CVE-2013-5915

The RSA-CRT implementation in PolarSSL before 1.2.9 does not properly perform Montgomery multiplication, which might allow remote attackers to conduct a timing side-channel attack and retrieve RSA private keys...