USN-3497-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Smart Card IO subsystem in OpenJDK did not properly maintain state. An attacker could use this to specially construct an untrusted Java application or applet to gain access to a smart card, bypassing sandbox restrictions. CVE-2017-10274 Gaston Traberg discovered that th...

FreeBSD-SA-17:11.openssl

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-17:11.openssl Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities Category: contrib Module: openssl Announced: 2017-11-29 Affects: All...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities (USN-3497-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3497-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Smart Card IO subsystem in OpenJDK did not properly maintain state. An attacker could use this to specially construct an...

Linux Memory Cryptographic Keys Extractor: CryKeX

Some work has been already published regarding the subject of cryptograhic keys security within DRAM. Basically, we need to find something that looks like a key entropic and specific length and then confirm its nature by analyzing the memory structure around it C data types. The idea is to dump...

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[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: botan-1.10.17-1.fc27

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...

reseed man-in-the-middle attack vulnerability

reseed is a reseed package used in Linux. A security vulnerability exists in reseed. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack and compromise cryptographic protection mechanisms...

Parrot Security 3.9 - Security GNU/Linux Distribution Designed with Cloud Pentesting and IoT Security in Mind

Security GNU/Linux distribution designed with cloud pentesting and IoT security in mind. It includes a full portable laboratory for security and digital forensics experts, but it also includes all you need to develop your own softwares or protect your privacy with anonymity and crypto tools...

Insecure Cryptography

crypto-browserify is generates cryptographically insecure random numbers. The library uses the native JavaScript Math.Random to generate random numbers, that has been proven as not secure...

CVE-2017-1375

IBM System Storage Storwize V7000 Unified V7000U 1.5 and 1.6 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 126868...

CVE-2017-1375

IBM System Storage Storwize V7000 Unified V7000U 1.5 and 1.6 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 126868...

DUHK Attack Lets Hackers Recover Encryption Key Used in VPNs & Web Sessions

DUHK — Don't Use Hard-coded Keys — is a new 'non-trivial' cryptographic implementation vulnerability that could allow attackers to recover encryption keys that secure VPN connections and web browsing sessions. DUHK is the third crypto-related vulnerability reported this month after KRACK Wi-Fi...

flatCore CMS 1.4.6: Remote Code Execution and Easteregg

RIPS Analysis The 74,000 lines of code of the flatCore CMS were analyzed in less than 3 minutes. RIPS discovered multiple vulnerabilities ranging from open redirection CVE-2017-11205 and cross-site scripting CVE-2017-11204 to SQL injection CVE-2017-11207, many of them being exploitable as...

Serious Crypto-Flaw Lets Hackers Recover Private RSA Keys Used in Billions of Devices

If you think KRACK attack for WiFi is the worst vulnerability of this year, then hold on… ...we have got another one for you which is even worse. Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, HP and Fujitsu are warning their customers of a potentially serious vulnerability in widely used RSA cryptographic library...

Buggy Microsoft Outlook Sending Encrypted S/MIME Emails With Plaintext Copy For Months

Beware, If you are using S/MIME protocol over Microsoft Outlook to encrypt your email communication, you need to watch out. From at least last 6 months, your messages were being sent in both encrypted and unencrypted forms, exposing all your secret and sensitive communications to potential...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7822

The AES-GCM implementation in WebCrypto API accepts 0-length IV when it should require a length of 1 according to the NIST Special Publication 800-38D specification. This might allow for the authentication key to be determined in some instances. This vulnerability affects Firefox 56...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14737

A cryptographic cache-based side channel in the RSA implementation in Botan before 1.10.17, and 1.11.x and 2.x before 2.3.0, allows a local attacker to recover information about RSA secret keys, as demonstrated by CacheD. This occurs because an array is indexed with bits derived from a secret key...

Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and...

GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Background GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also used for hardware testing. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation...

Das U-Boot AES-CBC encryption implementation contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Das U-Boot is a device bootloader that can read its configuration from an AES encrypted file. For devices utilizing this environment encryption mode, U-Boot's use of a zero initialization vector and improper handling of an error condition may allow attacks against the underlying...