OpenSSL Patches High-Severity Denial-of-Service Bug

OpenSSL on Thursday patched three vulnerabilities in its latest update, and reminded users running version 1.0.1 of the cryptographic library that that security support will end Dec. 31. Of the three bugs, only one was rated high severity and could lead to OpenSSL crashes. Only OpenSSL 1.1.0 is...

openssl -- multiple vulnerabilities

OpenSSL reports: ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow CVE-2016-7054 Severity: High TLS connections using -CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a Do...

ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow

TLS connections using -CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL crash. This issue is not considered to be exploitable beyond a DoS...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2016-714)

This update to Mozilla Firefox 47 fixes the following issues boo983549 : Security fixes : - CVE-2016-2815/CVE-2016-2818: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards boo983638 MFSA 2016-49 - CVE-2016-2819: Buffer overflow parsing HTML5 fragments boo983655 MFSA 2016-50 - CVE-2016-2821: Use-after-free...

Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (important)

This update to Mozilla Firefox 47 fixes the following issues boo983549: Security fixes: - CVE-2016-2815/CVE-2016-2818: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards boo983638 MFSA 2016-49 - CVE-2016-2819: Buffer overflow parsing HTML5 fragments boo983655 MFSA 2016-50 - CVE-2016-2821: Use-after-free deletin...

Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (important)

This update to Mozilla Firefox 47 fixes the following issues boo983549: Security fixes: - CVE-2016-2815/CVE-2016-2818: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards boo983638 MFSA 2016-49 - CVE-2016-2819: Buffer overflow parsing HTML5 fragments boo983655 MFSA 2016-50 - CVE-2016-2821: Use-after-free deletin...

CloudFlare Deploys ChaCha20-Poly1305 Encryption Across Sites

After rolling out free SSL for its users last fall, CloudFlare has deployed a new level of encryption on its service that hardens and speeds up the user experience, especially when accessing domains via mobile browsers. The form of encryption, a relatively new transport layer cipher suite known a...

Google Changes Ciphers in Chrome on Android

The emergence of mobile platforms such as iOS and Android have presented a number of challenges in terms of security. Not much can be done about some of these, like users leaving their phones in bars. But engineers at Google have been working on one of the thornier ones of late–how to provide sol...

Boasting Better Encryption, Bug Fixes, OpenSSH 6.5 Released

The OpenBSD Project pushed out a new build on Thursday of the OpenSSH security suite, adding a new private key format, a new transport cipher and fixing 15 bugs in the Secure Shell. OpenSSH version 6.5 adds support for the key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman within cryptographer Dani...