Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Berkeley DB vulnerability (USN-3489-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3489-1 advisory. It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain configuration files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive...

USN-3489-2: Berkeley DB vulnerability

USN-3489-1 fixed a vulnerability in Berkeley DB. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain configuration files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive informati...

USN-3489-1 db5.3 vulnerability

It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain configuration files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information...

USN-3489-1: Berkeley DB vulnerability

It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain configuration files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information...

Phishing Biggest Threat to Google Account Security

Last year may have been mostly about ransomware, but it’s difficult to forget the billion or so passwords that were spilled in high-profile breaches and credential leaks. Google and researchers from the University of California Berkeley attempted to ease some of that pain, and teamed up to analyz...

Google's Data on Login Thefts

This is interesting research and data: With Google accounts as a case-study, we teamed up with the University of California, Berkeley to better understand how hijackers attempt to take over accounts in the wild. From March 2016 to March 2017, we analyzed several black markets to see how hijackers...

Updated db48 and db53 packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that Berkeley DB reads the DBCONFIG configuration file from the current working directory by default. This happens when calling dbcreate with dbenv=NULL; or using the dbmopen function CVE-2017-10140...

MGASA-2017-0380 Updated db48 and db53 packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that Berkeley DB reads the DBCONFIG configuration file from the current working directory by default. This happens when calling dbcreate with dbenv=NULL; or using the dbmopen function CVE-2017-10140...

Debian DLA-1135-1 : db security update

It was found that the Berkeley DB reads DBCONFIG from the current working directory, leading to information leak by tricking privileged processes into reading arbitrary files. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 5.1.29-5+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your db...

Debian DLA-1136-1 : db4.8 security update

It was found that the Berkeley DB reads DBCONFIG from the current working directory, leading to information leak by tricking privileged processes into reading arbitrary files. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.30-12+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your db4...

Postfix: Privilege escalation

Background Postfix is a mail server and an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Description By default, Berkeley DB reads a DBCONFIG configuration file from the current working directory. This is an undocumented behavior. Impact A local attacker, by using a specially crafted DGCONFIG...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...

CVE-2017-10140

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DBCONFIG in the current directory...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10140

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DBCONFIG in the current directory...

people.eecs.berkeley.edu XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/jrb/art/social-fabric/mediaplayer.swf?file=http://content.bitsontherun.com/videos/bkaovAYt-364%20766.flv=falseℑ=http://appsec.ws/ExploitDB/cMon.jpg=true=javascript:confirm/openbugbounty/;//=blank&.swf Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| N...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: libdb-5.3.28-24.fc24

The Berkeley Database Berkeley DB is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, share...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: libdb-5.3.28-24.fc26

The Berkeley Database Berkeley DB is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, share...

calphotos.berkeley.edu XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/imgquery?max=50"' /Style=position:fixed;top:0;left:0;font-size:999px; /Onmouseenter=confirmOPENBUGBOUNTY...

BSA-2017-237

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-237 Component : Stack Buffer Overflow Issue in BSD libc Revision : 1.0: Interim The BSDlibclibrary'slinkntoa function may be vulnerable to a classic buffer overflow. It is currently unclear if this issue is exploitable. Affected Products Brocade is investigating it...

CVE-2017-3616

Vulnerability in the Data Store component of Oracle Berkeley DB. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.2.32. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Data Store executes to compromise Data Store. Successful attacks...