kernel 2.2.x/2.4 .0-test1,SGI ProPack 1.2/1.3 Capabilities Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1322/info POSIX Capabilities have recently been implemented in the Linux kernel. These Capabilities are an additional form of privilege control to enable more specific control over what priviliged processes can do...

PoPToP PPTP <= 1.1.4-b3 Remote Root Exploit (poptop-sane.c)

No description provided by source. / Fixed Exploit against PoPToP in Linux poptop-sane.c ./r4nc0rwh0r3 of blightninjas [email protected] blightninjas: bringing pain, suffering, and humiliation to the security world Expect more great release like helloworld-annotated.c and cd explained...

Flowerfire Sawmill 5.0.21 Weak Password Encryption Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1403/info Sawmill is a site statistics package for Unix, Windows and Mac OS. Passwords are encrypted using a weak hash function. This combined with the file disclosure vulnerability in Sawmill bid = 1402 could allow an...

Linux Kernel 2.6.34+ - CAP_SYS_ADMIN x86 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

No description provided by source. / Linux Kernel CAPSYSADMIN to root exploit by Dan Rosenberg @djrbliss on twitter Usage: gcc -w caps-to-root.c -o caps-to-root sudo setcap capsysadmin+ep caps-to-root ./caps-to-root This exploit is NOT stable: It only works on 32-bit x86 machines It only works on...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4014

The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with grou...

CVE-2014-4014

The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with grou...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4014

The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with grou...

Versatility of Zeus Framework Encourages Criminal Innovation

A new report on the Zeus trojan’s evolution shows that the malware was moved from harvesting online banking credentials to controlling botnets and launching distributed denial of service attacks attributes the evolution to the highly customized and incredibly versatile framework Zeus is today...

MGASA-2014-0251 Updated libcap-ng packages fix CVE-2014-3215

Updated libcap-ng packages fix security vulnerability: capnglock in libcap-ng before 0.7.4 sets securebits in an attempt to prevent regaining capabilities using setuid-root programs. This allows a user to run setuid programs, such as seunshare from policycoreutils, as uid 0 but without...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: openstack-neutron-2013.2.3-7.fc20

Neutron is a virtual network service for Openstack. Just like OpenStack Nova provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual servers, Neutron provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual networks. These networks connect "interfaces" from other OpenStack services e.g.,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: a2ps-4.14-23.fc19

The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript. A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages, encodings ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc., and medias...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: python-pillow-2.2.1-4.fc20

Python image processing library, fork of the Python Imaging Library PIL This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image processing capabilities. There are five subpackages: tk tk interface, qt PIL image wrapper for Qt , sane scanning...

SSL/TLS: IMAP 'STARTTLS' Command Detection

Checks if the remote IMAP server supports SSL/TLS with the Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; yo...

DoD DIACAP transition to RMF approved

Welcome DIARMF! This has been a long time coming. From DITSCAP to DIACAP and now to DIARMF the Department of Defense approved the transition to a Risk Management Framework RMF approach developed by NIST on March 12. What does this mean for Information Systems and Platform Information Technology...

Popular Remote access Trojan njRAT fuels Middle East Cyber Crime

Again the sophisticated piece of malware, "njRAT" has come to picture targeting the government agencies and organizations in the Middle East, according to the research carried out by Symantec security researchers. The researchers analyzed 721 samples of malicious code ‘njRAT’ and revealed that a...

Government Surveillance Could Targeted Automated Updates

SAN FRANCISCO – As more Web-based services are encrypted, privacy advocates are concerned the next wave of aggressive surveillance activity could target automated update services that essentially provide Internet companies root access to machines. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the...

Apple's SSL Vulnerability might allow NSA to hack iOS Devices Remotely

Just two days before Apple has disclosed a critical Security flaw in the SSL implementation on the iOS software that would allow man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept the SSL data by spoofing SSL servers. Dubbed as CVE-2014-1266, the so-called ‘goto fail;’ vulnerability in which the secure...

WordPress <= 3.0.1 - BYPASS

wp-includes/capabilities.php does not require the Super Admin role for the deleteusers capability that allows remote authenticated administrators to bypass intended access restrictions via a delete action. Solution Update WordPress...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2846-1 (libvirt - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple security issues have been found in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library: CVE-2013-6458 It was discovered that insecure job usage could lead to denial of service against libvirtd. CVE-2014-1447 It was discovered that a race condition in keepalive handling could lead to denial of...

NSA Officials Say Snowden Used Legitimate Access to Steal Data

It’s taken more than six months, but top officials at the National Security Agency are finally discussing some of the details of how former agency contractor Edward Snowden got access to all of the documents he stole and what kind of damage they believe the publication of the information they...