Fedora 27 : fedpkg / rpkg (2017-9cac2b8b4a)

Update - Fixed chain-build - Remove hard dependency of bash-completion from fedpkg rpkg - Ignore TestModulesCli if openidc-client is unavailable cqi - Port mbs-build to rpkg mprahl - Add .vscode to .gitignore mprahl - Fix TestPatch.testrediff in order to run with old version of mock cqi - Allow t...

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:2984-1 Security update for redis

This update for redis to version 4.0.2 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-8339: CONFIG SET client-output-buffer-limit Code Execution Vulnerability boo1002351 The following upstream changes are included: - SLOWLOG now logs the offending client name and address - The modules native data types R...

Razer US: XSS vulnerability on amp.razerzone.com

The tester discovered a reflected XSS vulnerability on a media content server, exploitable via Firefox. This content server was used by Razer employees and close partners to store media related to Razer products. We appreciate the tester's hard work and as a courtesy we granted reputation for thi...

Razer US: [amp.razerzone.com] SQL injection via resource_type parameter

The tester discovered multiple SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a media content server. One used exploited a single quote and the other the cookie parameter. This content server was used by Razer employees and close partners to store media related to Razer products. We appreciate the tester's har...

Google and Mozilla are Deprecating Existing Symantec Certificates

Earlier this month, after roughly six months of deliberation and planning, Google finalised their plans for staged deprecation of Symantec certificates. The process began in March 2017 when Google had announced on the Blink mailing list that they had lost confidence about Symantec’s certificate...

Session Hijacking Bug Exposed GitLab Users Private Tokens

GitLab, the popular web-based Git repository manager, fixed a vulnerability recently that could have exposed its users to session hijacking attacks. Daniel Svartman, a security researcher with Imperva, discovered the issue in May but couldn’t disclose it until Wednesday, after GitLab was able to...

CVE-2017-11424

In PyJWT 1.5.0 and below the invalidstrings check in HMACAlgorithm.preparekey does not account for all PEM encoded public keys. Specifically, the PKCS1 PEM encoded format would be allowed because it is prefaced with the string -----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY----- which is not accounted for. This enable...

Microsoft to remove WoSign and StartCom certificates in Windows 10

Microsoft has concluded that the Chinese Certificate Authorities CAs WoSign and StartCom have failed to maintain the standards required by our Trusted Root Program. Observed unacceptable security practices include back-dating SHA-1 certificates, mis-issuances of certificates, accidental certifica...

Microsoft Makes it Official, Cuts off SHA-1 Support in IE, Edge

Lost in yesterday’s shuffle of emergency updates and regularly scheduled monthly patches was Microsoft’s announcement that it was officially cutting off SHA-1 support in Internet Explorer 11 and Edge. Going forward, both browsers will block webpages signed with a SHA-1 TLS or SSL certificate from...

Microsoft Fixes Malware Protection Engine and Several 0-Day Vulnerabilities, and Deprecates SHA-1

Hours before today’s Patch Tuesday release on the eve of May 8, Microsoft released an emergency updated to fix a vulnerability in their Malware Protection Engine. This critical vulnerability allows an attacker to take complete control of the victim's machine by just sending an e-mail attachment...

May 9, 2017—KB4019213 (Security-only update)

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Google Making Life Difficult for Ransomware to Thrive on Android

SINT MAARTEN—Google has never been shy about sharing security enhancements and victories in Android. The mobile operating system is tweaked at every iteration to fend off threats posed by potentially harmful apps and attacks against devices. At the recent Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit,...

Firefox 52 Expands Non-Secure HTTP Warnings, Enables SHA-1 Deprecation

Mozilla fixed 28 vulnerabilities, including some that could result in a crash and the bypass of ASLR and DEP, when it released Firefox 52 on Tuesday. Seven of the vulnerabilities are considered critical, according to an advisory posted by the Mozilla Foundation. One of those vulnerabilities would...

First Practical SHA-1 Collision Attack Arrives

Researchers unveiled on Thursday the first practical collision attack for the 22-year old cryptographic hash function SHA-1. While long expected, news of the attack, dubbed ‘SHAttered,’ should further accelerate the urgency of sunsetting of the maligned algorithm. Researchers from Google, Elie...

Four High-Severity Chrome Vulnerabilities Earn Researcher $32K in Rewards

For the second time in less than a year, researcher Mariusz Mlynski has earned more than $30,000 through Google’s Chrome Rewards program. Google on Wednesday released Chrome 56.0.02924.76 for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, and Mlynski was credited with finding and disclosing four high-severity...

On How Trump Will Affect Crypto and Security, SHA-1, WhatsApp, and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook discuss security-wise what they hope will and won’t change under a Trump presidency, then discuss the news of the week, including SHA-1 deprecation, Carbanak’s return, and the WhatsApp “backdoor” debacle. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJanuary202017.mp3 Music...

SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived

For the past couple of years, browser makers have raced to migrate from SHA-1 to SHA-2 as researchers have intensified warnings about collision attacks moving from theoretical to practical. In just weeks, a transition deadline set by Google, Mozilla and Microsoft for the deprecation of SHA-1 is u...

Man In The Middle (mitm)

wdm is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. The rubgems source is deprecated because HTTP requests are insecure. A malicious user can potentially compromise the source to conduct MitM attacks...

SUSE-SU-2016:2871-1 Security update for libtcnative-1-0

This update for libtcnative-1-0 fixes the following issues: - Upgrade to libtcnative-1.1.34 bugfix release bsc1004455 See https://tomcat.apache.org/native-1.1-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html Unconditionally disable export Ciphers. Improve ephemeral key handling for DH and ECDH. Parameter strengt...

Google Removing SHA-1 Support in Chrome 56

The home stretch for SHA-1 deprecation is in full effect with Google on Wednesday announcing its final deprecation deadlines for the Chrome browser, and a cryptographic services provider warning that there’s still a long way to go to get sites off SHA-1 certificates. Google said it will remove it...