FreeBSD -- OpenSSL Remote DoS vulnerability

Problem Description: Due to improper handling of alert packets, OpenSSL would consume an excessive amount of CPU time processing undefined alert messages. Impact: A remote attacker who can initiate handshakes with an OpenSSL based server can cause the server to consume a lot of computation power...

FreeBSD-SA-16:34.bind

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:34.bind Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: BIND Remote Denial of Service vulnerability Category: contrib Module: bind Announced: 2016-11-02 Credits...

FreeBSD : memcached -- multiple vulnerabilities (f4bf713f-6ac7-4b76-8980-47bf90c5419f)

Cisco Talos reports : Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities exist within Memcached that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on the targeted system. These vulnerabilities manifest in various Memcached functions that are used in inserting, appending, prepending, or modifying...

FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (9c135c7e-9fa4-11e6-a265-3065ec8fd3ec)

Google Chrome Releases reports : 3 security fixes in this release, including : - 642496 High CVE-2016-5177: Use after free in V8. Credit to Anonymous - 651092 CVE-2016-5178: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (9118961b-9fa5-11e6-a265-3065ec8fd3ec)

Google Chrome Releases reports : 21 security fixes in this release, including : - 645211 High CVE-2016-5181: Universal XSS in Blink. Credit to Anonymous - 638615 High CVE-2016-5182: Heap overflow in Blink. Credit to Giwan Go of STEALIEN - 645122 High CVE-2016-5183: Use after free in PDFium. Credi...

Lynis 2.4.0 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

Shadow Brokers reveals list of Servers Hacked by the NSA

The hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, who previously claimed to have leaked a portion of the NSA’s hacking tools and exploits, is back with a Bang! The Shadow Brokers published more files today, and this time the group dumped a list of foreign servers allegedly compromised by the...

FreeBSD : Axis2 -- Security vulnerabilities on dependency Apache HttpClient (ac18046c-9b08-11e6-8011-005056925db4)

"Apache Axis2 reports : Apache Axis2 1.7.4 is a maintenance release that includes fixes for several issues, including the following security issues : Session fixation AXIS2-4739 and XSS AXIS2-5683 vulnerabilities affecting the admin console. A dependency on an Apache HttpClient version affected b...

FreeBSD : node.js -- ares_create_query single byte out of buffer write (28bb6ee5-9b5c-11e6-b799-19bef72f4b7c)

Node.js has released new versions containing the following security fix : The following releases all contain fixes for CVE-2016-5180 'arescreatequery single byte out of buffer write': Node.js v0.10.48 Maintenance, Node.js v0.12.17 Maintenance, Node.js v4.6.1 LTS 'Argon' While this is not a critic...

FreeBSD : node.js -- multiple vulnerabilities (27180c99-9b5c-11e6-b799-19bef72f4b7c)

Node.js v6.9.0 LTS contains the following security fixes, specific to v6.x : Disable auto-loading of openssl.cnf: Don't automatically attempt to load an OpenSSL configuration file, from the OPENSSLCONF environment variable or from the default location for the current platform. Always triggering a...

FreeBSD : sudo -- Potential bypass of sudo_noexec.so via wordexp() (2e4fbc9a-9d23-11e6-a298-14dae9d210b8)

Todd C. Miller reports : A flaw exists in sudo's noexec functionality that may allow a user with sudo privileges to run additional commands even when the NOEXEC tag has been applied to a command that uses the wordexp function. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- OpenSSH Remote Denial of Service vulnerability (6a2cfcdc-9dea-11e6-a298-14dae9d210b8)

When processing the SSHMSGKEXINIT message, the server could allocate up to a few hundreds of megabytes of memory per each connection, before any authentication take place. Impact : A remote attacker may be able to cause a SSH server to allocate an excessive amount of memory. Note that the default...

FreeBSD : flash -- remote code execution (de6d01d5-9c44-11e6-ba67-0011d823eebd)

Adobe reports : Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. These updates address a critical vulnerability that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for...

FreeBSD : urllib3 -- certificate verification failure (c5c6e293-9cc7-11e6-823f-b8aeed92ecc4)

urllib3 reports : CVE-2016-9015: Certification verification failure %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors Redistribution and...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- bhyve - privilege escalation vulnerability (a479a725-9adb-11e6-a298-14dae9d210b8)

An unchecked array reference in the VGA device emulation code could potentially allow guests access to the heap of the bhyve process. Since the bhyve process is running as root, this may allow guests to obtain full control of the hosts they are running on. Impact : For bhyve virtual machines with...

FreeBSD-SA-16:32.bhyve

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-16:32.bhyve Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: bhyve - privilege escalation vulnerability Category: core Module: bhyve Announced: 2016-10-25 Credits:...

FreeBSD -- bhyve - privilege escalation vulnerability

Problem Description: An unchecked array reference in the VGA device emulation code could potentially allow guests access to the heap of the bhyve process. Since the bhyve process is running as root, this may allow guests to obtain full control of the hosts they are running on. Impact: For bhyve...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (aaa9f3db-13b5-4a0e-9ed7-e5ab287098fa)

Mozilla Foundation reports : CVE-2016-5287: Crash in nsTArraybase::SwapArrayElements CVE-2016-5288: Web content can read cache entries %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :...

FreeBSD -- OpenSSH Remote Denial of Service vulnerability

Problem Description: When processing the SSHMSGKEXINIT message, the server could allocate up to a few hundreds of megabytes of memory per each connection, before any authentication take place. Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a SSH server to allocate an excessive amount of memory...

FreeBSD : Tor -- remote denial of service (c1dc55dc-9556-11e6-b154-3065ec8fd3ec)

The Tor Blog reports : Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash most Tor instances,...