Cloudminr Bitcoin Hack Exposes Data on 80,000

Attackers were able to break into servers belonging to Bitcoin cloud-mining platform Cloudminr.io last week and harvest the site’s entire database. Now hackers are attempting to sell the information, which includes thousands of unencrypted usernames, email addresses, and passwords. Cloudminr, a...

Amazon Releases S2N TLS Crypto Implementation to Open Source

Amazon today released to open source its own TLS implementation called s2n, which stands for signal to noise. While admittedly not meant to be a replacement for OpenSSL, for example, s2n is a slimmed-down crypto implementation analogous to libssl, the OpenSSL library that supports TLS. Amazon chi...

PITA Side-Channel Crypto Key Attack

It’s unlikely that anyone envisioned the evolution of cryptographic key thievery to include leavened flatbread, but that’s where we’ve arrived. Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel are expected in September to present a paper at the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded System...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2015-1137)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1137 advisory. - fs pipe: fix pipe corruption and iovec overrun on partial copy Seth Jennings 1202861 1198843 CVE-2015-1805 - x86 kernel: Remove a bogus 'retfromfork'...

IC3 Issues Alert on CryptoWall Ransomware

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert warning that U.S. individuals and businesses are still at risk of CryptoWall ransomware fraud. Scam operators use ransomware—a type of malicious software—to infect a device and restrict access until a ransom fee is paid­­. Individuals an...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-229.7.2 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-229.7.2 - fs pipe: fix pipe corruption and iovec overrun on partial copy Seth Jennings 1202861 1198843 CVE-2015-1805 3.10.0-229.7.1 - scsi storvsc: get rid of overly verbose warning messages Vitaly Kuznetsov 1215770 1206437 - scsi...

openssl: multiple issues

CVE-2015-1788 denial of service When processing an ECParameters structure OpenSSL enters an infinite loop if the curve specified is over a specially malformed binary polynomial field. This can be used to perform denial of service against any system which processes public keys, certificate...

EUVD-2015-1918

The dofreeupto function in crypto/cms/cmssmime.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zg, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0s, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1n, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2b allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via vectors that trigger a NULL value of a BIO data structure, as demonstrated by an...

OpenJDK: insufficient hardening of RSA-CRT implementation (JCE, 8071726)

It was found that the RSA implementation in the JCE component in OpenJDK did not follow recommended practices for implementing RSA signatures...

Kernel: crypto: buffer overruns in RFC4106 implementation using AESNI

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Intel AES-NI instructions optimized version of the RFC4106 GCM mode decryption functionality handled fragmented packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash, or potentially escalate their privileges on, a system over a...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.6.32-504.23.4 - crypto drbg: fix maximum value checks on 32 bit systems Herbert Xu 1225950 1219907 - crypto drbg: remove configuration of fixed values Herbert Xu 1225950 1219907 2.6.32-504.23.3 - netdrv bonding: fix locking in enslave failure path Nikolay Aleksandrov 1222483 1221856 - netdrv...

CVE-2015-3331

The driverrfc4106decrypt function in arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intelglue.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3 does not properly determine the memory locations used for encrypted data, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly...

Buffer overflow

The driverrfc4106decrypt function in arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intelglue.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3 does not properly determine the memory locations used for encrypted data, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly...

CVE-2015-3331

CVE-2015-3331 affects the Linux kernel up to 3.19.2, where __driver_rfc4106_decrypt in arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c mishandles memory locations for encrypted data, enabling a context-dependent attacker to trigger a buffer overflow via a crypto API call (e.g., with a libkcapi test program us...

CVE-2015-3331

The driverrfc4106decrypt function in arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intelglue.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3 does not properly determine the memory locations used for encrypted data, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly...

Podcast Discussing the Week's Security, Crypto News

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the Logjam attack, the proposed Wassenaar export rules on exploits, and the letter to the president decrying crypto back doors. They do not talk about the Mad Men finale. Nor will they ever. Download: digitalunderground204.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0060)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - crypto: aesni - fix memory usage in GCM decryption Stephan Mueller Orabug: 21077385 CVE-2015-3331 - xen/pciback: Don't disable PCICOMMAND on PCI device reset. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 20807438...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150512)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Intel AES-NI instructions optimized version of the RFC4106 GCM mode decryption functionality handled fragmented packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash, or potentially escalate their privileges on, a system over a...

Open Smart Grid Protocol Alliance Plan to Fix its Weak Crypto

The Open Smart Grid Protocol Alliance, which recently came under fire for a weak crypto implementation in its protocol, will upgrade existing devices, likely starting in September. Harry Crijns, secretary of the OSGP Alliance in The Netherlands, said fixes have been developed and are “under a...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

2.6.39-400.250.2 - crypto: aesni - fix memory usage in GCM decryption Stephan Mueller Orabug: 21077389 CVE-2015-3331 2.6.39-400.250.1 - xen/pciback: Don't disable PCICOMMAND on PCI device reset. Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 20807440 CVE-2015-2150 - xen-blkfront: fix accounting of reqs when...