Patched Apple QuickTime Vulnerability Details Disclosed

Use-after-free vulnerabilities have nudged buffer overflows off their exclusive perch of serious bugs that hackers covet. They’ve been used in a number of targeted attacks, including some high-profile nation-state attacks, and also were a motivation for Microsoft to implement UAF-specific...

Debian DLA-249-1 : qemu-kvm security update (Venom)

A vulnerability was discovered in the qemu virtualisation solution : CVE-2015-3456 Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy disk drive, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary code. Despite the end-of-life of qemu-kvm support in the old-oldstable distribution...

Debian DLA-248-1 : qemu security update (Venom)

A vulnerability was discovered in the qemu virtualisation solution : CVE-2015-3456 Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy disk drive, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary code. Despite the end-of-life of qemu support in the old-oldstable distribution...

DLA-249-1 qemu-kvm - security update

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Samsung's Swift Keyboard Update Mechanism Exposes 600M Devices

The Swift keyboard, installed by default on Samsung Android mobiles, exposes devices to a host of remote attacks that could be executed by attackers ranging from criminals sitting man-in-the-middle on local Wi-Fi networks, to a state actor in an upstream position at an ISP or backbone. NowSecure...

ChromePass - Chrome Browser Password Recovery Tool

ChromePass is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Google Chrome Web browser. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Origin URL, Action URL, User Name Field, Password Field, User Name, Password, and Created Time. Y...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2015-391) (Venom)

The XEN hypervisor was updated to fix two security issues : - Fixed a buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. CVE-2015-3456 - Xen did not initialize certain fields, which allowed certain remote...

SUSE SLES10 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2015:0889-2) (Venom)

Xen was updated to fix a buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to carry out denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. This vulnerability is also known as VENOM. CVE-2015-3456 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : KVM (SUSE-SU-2015:0943-1) (Venom)

KVM was updated to fix the following issues : CVE-2015-3456: A buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to carry out denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. This vulnerability is also known as VENOM. Validate VMDK4 version field so we don'...

Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.2-4.fc21 (2015-8270) (Venom)

Privilege escalation via emulated floppy disk drive XSA-133, CVE-2015-3456 1221153 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.0-9.fc22 (2015-8194) (Venom)

Privilege escalation via emulated floppy disk drive XSA-133, CVE-2015-3456 1221153 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without...

Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers

Attacks targeting small office and home router DNS settings, long a target for network intruders seeking to redirect web traffic to malicious sites, have for the first time been included in an exploit kit—one that specializes in cross-site request forgery attacks. An exploit kit has been spotted ...

Malvertising Leads to Magnitude Exploit Kit, Ransomware Infection

Criminals are injecting malicious redirect code into advertisements in order to route user traffic toward sites hosting the Magnitude exploit kit, which, in turn, infects those users with strains of file-encrypting ransomware. Magnitude predominately relies on drive-by-download attacks in which i...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2015-363) (Venom)

qemu was updated to fix a security issue : - CVE-2015-3456: Fixed a buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-3262-1 : xen - security update (Venom)

Jason Geffner discovered a buffer overflow in the emulated floppy disk drive, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary code. This only affects HVM guests. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debia...

Security update for qemu (important)

qemu was updated to fix a security issue: CVE-2015-3456: Fixed a buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host...

Security update for qemu (important)

Qemu was updated to v2.1.3: See http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/2.1 for more information. This update includes a security fix: CVE-2015-3456: Fixed a buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : KVM (SAT Patch Number 10672)

KVM was updated to fix a buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be used to carry out denial of service attacks or potential code execution against the host. This vulnerability is also known as VENOM. CVE-2015-3456 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3259-1 (qemu - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation solution: CVE-2014-9718 It was discovered that the IDE controller emulation is susceptible to denial of service. CVE-2015-1779 Daniel P. Berrange discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the VNC web socket decoder...

Debian DSA-3259-1 : qemu - security update (Venom)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation solution : - CVE-2014-9718 It was discovered that the IDE controller emulation is susceptible to denial of service. - CVE-2015-1779 Daniel P. Berrange discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the VNC web socket decoder. -...