Updated chkrootkit packages fix CVE-2014-0476 and a false positive

Updated chkrootkit package fixes security vulnerability: The chkrootkit script contains a flaw that allows a local attacker to create an executable in /tmp that will be run by the user running chkrootkit usually root, allowing the attacker to escalate privileges CVE-2014-0476. The Mageia 3 update...

MGASA-2014-0249 Updated chkrootkit packages fix CVE-2014-0476 and a false positive

Updated chkrootkit package fixes security vulnerability: The chkrootkit script contains a flaw that allows a local attacker to create an executable in /tmp that will be run by the user running chkrootkit usually root, allowing the attacker to escalate privileges CVE-2014-0476. The Mageia 3 update...

Ancient 'STONED' Virus Signatures found in Bitcoin Blockchain

If you are dealing in cryptocurrency Bitcoin and have Microsoft's Security Essentials MSE installed on your system, then you could be infected by a virus called "DOS/STONED" from the Bitcoin BlockChain. With a number of high-profile cases of fraud, theft, and technical incompetence against the...

[FoxOne] Free OSINT Tool - Server Reconnaissance Scanner

FoxOne is a free OSINT tool, described by the author th3j35t3r as a Non-Invasive and Non-Detectable Server Reconnaissance Scanner. Bypassing API limitations and currently detecting 6500+ vulnerable server paths/files – without ever touching the target server. Very good for getting hold of intel o...

Mod_Security Cross Site Scripting Bypass

Product: Modsecurity Author: Rafay Baloch Status: Fixed Details: The ModSecurity firewall is one of the most known WAF around, It has an online smoke test where we can check if a vector bypassed the regular expressions. Payload: It was though detecting null bytes, but it was generating a false...

[Netsparker Community Edition v2.5.2.0] Released!

Netsparker Community Edition is a SQL Injection Scanner. It’s a free edition of our web vulnerability scanner for the community so you can start securing your website now. It’s user friendly, fast, smart and as always False-Positive-Free. It shares many features with professional edition. It can...

Dropbear SSH Server Channel Concurrency Use-after-free Remote Code Execution

According to its self-reported banner, the remote host is running a version of Dropbear SSH before 2012.55. As such, it reportedly contains a flaw that might allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on the remote host with root privileges if they are authenticated using a public key and command...

Arachni v.0.2.3 - Open Source Web Application Security Scanner Framework

Arachni v.0.2.3 - Open Source Web Application Security Scanner Framework Arachni is a feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web applications.Arachni is smart, it trains itself by learning from...

Samsung Keylogger Case Revealed As False Positive

The panic that arose yesterday about Samsung allegedly shipping laptops that contained a pre-installed keylogger turns out to have been a complete mistake after further investigation by security researchers and the company itself. In fact, the controversy was the result of a false positive from o...

Squid 3.1.6 DNS Reply Denial of Service

According to its banner, the version of the Squid proxy caching server installed on the remote host is 3.1.6. This version is affected by a denial of service vulnerability that is caused by an assertion failure when contacting IPv4-only DNS resolvers. Note that Nessus has relied only on the versi...

McAfee DAT 5958 Issues

US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating that McAfee DAT release 5958 is incorrectly identifying the valid system file, C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe, as containing malicious code. Reports indicate that a false positive detection occurs on Windows XP Service Pack 3 systems. Symptoms includ...

gnupg -- false positive signature verification

Werner Koch reports: The Gentoo project identified a security related bug in GnuPG. When using any current version of GnuPG for unattended signature verification e.g. by scripts and mail programs, false positive signature verification of detached signatures may occur. This problem affects the too...

wu-ftpd S/KEY authentication overflow

The remote Wu-FTPd server seems to be vulnerable to a remote overflow. This version contains a remote overflow if s/key support is enabled. The skeychallenge function fails to perform bounds checking on the name variable resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacke...

wu-ftpd ABOR privilege escalation

The remote Wu-FTPd server seems to be vulnerable to a remote privilege escalation. This version contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to unauthorized privileges. Specifically, there is a flaw in the way that the server handles an ABOR command after a data connection has...

wu-ftpd MAIL_ADMIN overflow

The remote Wu-FTPd server seems to be vulnerable to a remote flaw. This version fails to properly check bounds on a pathname when Wu-Ftpd is compiled with MAILADMIN enabled resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can possibly execute arbitrary code as the use...

mod_ssl off by one

The remote host is using a version of modssl which is older than 2.8.10. This version is vulnerable to an off by one buffer overflow which may allow a user with write access to .htaccess files to execute arbitrary code on the system with permissions of the web server. Note that several Linux...

Kcms Profile Server

The Kodak Color Management System service is running. The KCMS service on Solaris 2.5 could allow a local user to write to arbitrary files and gain root access. This warning may be a false positive since the presence of the bug has not been tested. Patches: 107337-02 SunOS 5.7 has been released a...

Open News server

The remote News server seems open to outsiders. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 Michel Arboi 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...

nCipher Advisory #8: payShield library may verify bad requests

nCipher Security Advisory No. 8 payShield library may verify bad requests ----------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= When a command is issued to the payShield SPP library it may return StatusOK regardless of what the real reply status was. ISSUE DESCRIPTION ================= 1...

Horde IMP IMP_MIME_Viewer_html Class XSS

The remote server is running at least one instance of IMP whose version number is between 3.0 and 3.2.1 inclusive. Such versions are vulnerable to several cross-scripting attacks whereby an attacker can cause a victim to unknowingly run arbitrary JavaScript code simply by reading an HTML message...