Locky, Cerber Ransomware Skilled at Avoiding Detection

The latest versions of Cerber and Locky ransomware have been, since mid-January, finding great success in bypassing existing security detection systems through the use of a common infrastructure that allows the malicious code to bury itself inside NSIS installers, and use several layers of...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the Qualcomm crypto engine in the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to enhance their privileges and execute arbitrary code within the kernel context, through a local malicious...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Mozilla NSS vulnerability (K15955144)

Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.19.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1, and other products, does not properly perform Elliptical Curve Cryptography ECC multiplications, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof ECDS...

Comey Talks Strong Crypto, Silent on WikiLeaks

CHESTNUT HILL, Ma.—FBI director James B. Comey today revived the Going Dark discussion during a keynote address at the Boston Conference on Cyber Security, saying it’s time for an adult conversation on the prevalence of strong encryption and how it hinders criminal and national security...

CVE-2017-0520

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

CVE-2017-0520

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

CVE-2017-0520

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0520

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

CVE-2017-0520

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

CVE-2017-0520

CVE-2017-0520 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine driver that could allow a local malicious Android app to execute code in the kernel context. Affected components: Qualcomm crypto engine driver; vulnerable against Android kernels 3.10 and 3.18. Trigger require...

Amazon Linux AMI : python-crypto (ALAS-2017-801)

A heap-buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in cryptopp. This vulnerability can be used to remotely gain access to shell. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2017-801...

Important: python-crypto

Issue Overview: A heap-buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in cryptopp. This vulnerability can be used to remotely gain access to shell. Affected Packages: python-crypto Issue Correction: Run yum update python-crypto or yum update --advisory ALAS-2017-801 to update your system.Run yum...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of Qualcomm’s Android operating system’s crypto driver is related to access control deficiencies. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Python Crypto regression (USN-3199-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3199-2 advisory. USN-3199-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Python Cryptography Toolkit. Unfortunately, various programs depended on the original behavior of the Python...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Python Crypto vulnerability (USN-3199-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3199-1 advisory. It was discovered that the ALGnew function in blocktemplace.c in the Python Cryptography Toolkit contained a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability....

USN-3199-1: Python Crypto vulnerability

It was discovered that the ALGnew function in blocktemplace.c in the Python Cryptography Toolkit contained a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code by using a crafted initialization vector parameter...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3995

The timing attack protection in Rijndael::Enc::ProcessAndXorBlock and Rijndael::Dec::ProcessAndXorBlock in Crypto++ aka cryptopp before 5.6.4 may be optimized out by the compiler, which allows attackers to conduct timing attacks...

Code injection

The timing attack protection in Rijndael::Enc::ProcessAndXorBlock and Rijndael::Dec::ProcessAndXorBlock in Crypto++ aka cryptopp before 5.6.4 may be optimized out by the compiler, which allows attackers to conduct timing attacks...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3995

The timing attack protection in Rijndael::Enc::ProcessAndXorBlock and Rijndael::Dec::ProcessAndXorBlock in Crypto++ aka cryptopp before 5.6.4 may be optimized out by the compiler, which allows attackers to conduct timing attacks...