DEBIAN-CVE-2016-0799

The fmtstr function in crypto/bio/bprint.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g improperly calculates string lengths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service overflow and out-of-bounds read or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as...

Nearly Two Years After Heartbleed OpenSSL Operating With Renewed Vision

SAN FRANCISCO—Experts have stressed this week that DROWN is no Heartbleed, but at some point in the not too distant future, there’s going to be another major Internet vulnerability and developers at OpenSSL claim they’re battle tested. Rich Salz and Tim Hudson, members of OpenSSL’s development...

Crypto Panel Experts Clash on FBI-Apple Debate

SAN FRANCISCO—One would think that six of the smartest security people on the planet could come to some sort of collective conclusion on the FBI-Apple debate. But that wasn’t the case today during the annual Cryptographers’ Panel at RSA Conference. The debate over whether Apple should assist the...

CVE-2016-0797

Multiple integer overflows in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap memory corruption or NULL pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long digit string that is mishandled by the 1 BNdec2bn or 2...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: botan-1.10.12-1.fc22

Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS \10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: qca-2.1.1-4.fc23

Taking a hint from the similarly-named Java Cryptography Architecture, QCA aims to provide a straightforward and cross-platform crypto API, using Qt datatypes and conventions. QCA separates the API from the implementation, using plugins known as Providers. The advantage of this model is to allow...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which giv...

Disabled PadCrypt Ransomware Includes Live Chat, Uninstaller

Several flavors of ransomware, most notably Cryptowall, have come packaged with support features. But a new piece of crypto-ransomware called PadCrypt has upped the game with a live chat feature that victims can use to interact with the attackers about ransom payments and other information...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-327.10.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327.10.1 - of return NUMANONODE from fallback ofnodetonid Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 1300614 1294398 - net openvswitch: do not allocate memory from offline numa node Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 1300614 1294398...

How to Crack GCHQ Crypto Puzzle? — Here's the Solution

GCHQ has finally released the solution to their head spinning Xmas Puzzle, after all, the participants failed to reach the final answer. GCHQ had released a crypto puzzle, dubbed Xmas Puzzle, on 9th December in the form of a Christmas Card that went viral online soon after its release. Nearly...

CVE-2016-0811

Integer overflow in the BnCrypto::onTransact function in media/libmedia/ICrypto.cpp in libmediaplayerservice in Android 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information, and consequently bypass an unspecified protection mechanism, by triggering an improper size calculation, ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: nettle-3.2-1.fc23

Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages C++, Python, Pike, ..., in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space...

Socat Weak Diffie-Hellman Prime Number

Update Socat is the latest open source tool to come under suspicion that it is backdoored. Socat is a versatile command line utility that builds bi-directional communication streams and moves data between channels, including files, network pipes, serial connected devices, sockets or a combination...

Debian DSA-3457-1 : iceweasel - security update (SLOTH)

Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors and a buffer overflow may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. In addition the bundled NSS crypto library addresses the SLOTH attack on TLS 1.2...

chromium-browser: weak random number generator in Blink

Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, does not ensure that a proper cryptographicallyRandomValues random number generator is used, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors...

DSA-3457-1 iceweasel - security update

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kernel: crypto api unprivileged arbitrary module load via request_module()

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto subsystem handled automatic loading of kernel modules. A local user could use this flaw to load any installed kernel module, and thus increase the attack surface of the running kernel...

kernel: crypto api unprivileged arbitrary module load via request_module()

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto subsystem handled automatic loading of kernel modules. A local user could use this flaw to load any installed kernel module, and thus increase the attack surface of the running kernel...

XMB - eXtreme Message Board 1.9.11.13 Weak Crypto / Insecure Password Storage

Credits: hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/XMB-WEAK-CRYPTO.txt Vendor: ============== xmbforum2.com Product: ====================================== XMB - eXtreme Message Board v1.9.11.13 XMB forum software is open source and runs...

FreeBSD : go -- information disclosure vulnerability (6809c6db-bdeb-11e5-b5fe-002590263bf5)

Jason Buberel reports : A security-related issue has been reported in Go's math/big package. The issue was introduced in Go 1.5. We recommend that all users upgrade to Go 1.5.3, which fixes the issue. Go programs must be recompiled with Go 1.5.3 in order to receive the fix. The Go team would like...