Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security and bug fix update

An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Debian DSA-4166-1 : openjdk-7 - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in denial of service, sandbox bypass, execution of arbitrary code, incorrect LDAP/GSS authentication, insecure use of cryptography or bypass of deserialisation restrictions. C Tenable...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4166-1] openjdk-7 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4166-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff April 04, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities (USN-3613-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3613-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the cryptography implementation in OpenJDK. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive...

USN-3614-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the cryptography implementation in OpenJDK. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2018-2579 It was discovered that the LDAP implementation in OpenJDK did not properly encode login names. A remote attacker could...

USN-3613-1 openjdk-8 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the cryptography implementation in OpenJDK. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2018-2579 It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly validate uses of the invokeinterface JVM...

USN-3613-1: OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the cryptography implementation in OpenJDK. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2018-2579 It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly validate uses of the invokeinterface JVM...

Musical Ciphers

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TLS 1.3 is nearly here

TLS stands for "Transport Layer Security" and it's rather important. Why's that? Oh, I'm glad you asked. Here's me, yelling my password across the office to you: "PASSWORD!!!" You heard me loud and clear, right? But so did basically anyone else nearby. Now let's work in a little TLS love and...

Encryption 101: Decryptor’s thought process

In the previous parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series, we covered the basics of encryption, walked through a live example of a ransomware in detail, and talked about encryption weaknesses. In this part of the encryption 101 series, we will begin wrapping it up by going into detail on a ransomware with...

Amazon Linux AMI : python-crypto (ALAS-2018-977)

Weak ElGamal key parameters in PublicKey/ElGamal.py allow attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext : lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext...

ARM mbed TLS integer overflow vulnerability

ARM mbed TLS is a product that provides secure communication and encryption capabilities for mbed products. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in ARM mbed TLS. Due to a failure in the sslparseclientpskidentity function, the affected software fails to properly perform boundary checks. An...

CVE-2017-1571

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows includes DB2 Connect Server 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 131853...

CVE-2018-1428

IBM GSKit IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 139073...

CVE-2017-1571

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows includes DB2 Connect Server 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 131853...

Debian DSA-4144-1 : openjdk-8 - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in denial of service, sandbox bypass, execution of arbitrary code, incorrect LDAP/GSS authentication, insecure use of cryptography or bypass of deserialisation restrictions. C Tenable...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4144-1] openjdk-8 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4144-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 17, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Microsoft Cryptography Next Generation Security Bypass Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows 10 and others are a series of operating systems released by Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. Cryptography Next Generation CNG is one of the cryptographic platforms. cng.sys driver is one of the drivers. A security bypass vulnerability exists in the cng.sys driver in Microsoft C...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4144-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

CVE-2018-0902

The Cryptography Next Generation CNG kernel-mode driver cng.sys in Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and 1709. Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server, version 1709 allows a security feature bypass vulnerability due to the way the kernel-mode driver validates and enforces impersonation levels, ak...