VideoLAN Releases a Security Advisory for VLC Media Player

VideoLAN has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in VLC Media Player. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. The updated release also addresses additional issues that could result in a denial-of-service attack...

Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.127

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.127 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or conduct spoofing attacks. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review th...

Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6.7

Apple has released QuickTime 7.6.7 for Windows to address a vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to a stack buffer overflow that exists in QuickTime error logging. By convincing a user to open a specially crafted movie file, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause a...

Adobe Releases Security Update for Flash Player

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1.82.76 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. This vulnerability also affects Adobe Air 2.0.2.12310 and earlier versions. US-CERT encourages users and...

Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.126

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.126 for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Chrome 5.0.375.126 contains an updated version of the Flash plugin which addresses multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and...

Apple Releases Updates for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Apple has released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch and iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad to address vulnerabilities in the FreeType and IOSurface packages. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or gain system privileges. iPhone and iPod touch users are...

Microsoft Releases August Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and Silverlight as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or operate with elevated privileges...

US CERT Warns on VxWorks Flaws

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued two warnings on flaws in the embedded systems’ OS technology VxWorks as discovered by researcher HD Moore. One flaw deals with weakness in the hashing algorithm of the API authentication; The second regards debug settings being enabled by...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for August Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its August release will contain 14 bulletins. Eight bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and Silverlight. The remaining six bulletins will hav...

[R7-0035] VxWorks Authentication Library Weak Password Hashing

R7-0035: VxWorks Authentication Library Weak Password Hashing August 2, 2010 -- Vulnerability Details: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass the authentication process for the Telnet and FTP services of the VxWorks operating system. This flaw occurs due to an insecure password...

VxWorks WDB Agent Remote Memory Dump

This module provides the ability to dump the system memory of a VxWorks target through WDBRPC This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VxWorks WDB Agent Remote Memory Dump', 'Description...

Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Bulletin to Address Shortcut Vulnerability

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS10-046 to address a critical vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows. This vulnerability is due to the failure of Microsoft Windows to properly obtain icons for shortcut files. By convincing a user to display a specially crafted shortcut file, a remote...

Wind River Systems VxWorks weak default hashing algorithm in standard authentication API (loginLib)

Overview The hashing algorithm that is used in the standard authentication API for VxWorks is susceptible to collisions. An attacker can brute force a password by guessing a string that produces the same hash as a legitimate password. Description An attacker with a known username and access to a...

Apple Releases Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1

Apple has released Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1 for Windows and Mac OS X to address multiple vulnerabilities in Safari and WebKit. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or obtain sensitive information. US-CERT encourages users...

Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.125

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.125 for Linux, Mac, and Windows to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome Releases blog entr...

Firefox Releases Firefox 3.6.8

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.8 to address a critical vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Foundation security advisory MFSA 2010-48 and update to Firefox 3.6.8 to hel...

RedHat Update for openldap RHSA-2010:0542-01

Check for the Version of openldap OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for openldap RHSA-2010:0542-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

RedHat Update for openldap RHSA-2010:0542-01

Check for the Version of openldap OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for openldap RHSA-2010:0542-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Microsoft Shifts to 'Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure' Policy

Microsoft is changing the way in which it handles vulnerability disclosures, now moving to a model it calls coordinated vulnerability disclosure, in which the researcher and the vendor work together to verify a vulnerability and allow ample time for a patch. However, the new philosophy also...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory for CDS Internet Streamer

Cisco has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the Cisco Internet Streamer application that is part of the Cisco Content Delivery System. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, including password files...