Facebook releases 'Conceal' API for Android developers to Encrypt data on Disk

Many Smartphone applications support, installation or app data storage to an external SD Card, that can be helpful in saving space on the internal memory, but also vulnerable to hackers. Typically, an app that has permission to read and write data from an SD card has the permission to read all da...

Facebook Conceal Java Crypto LIbrary Open Sourced

Facebook has released to open source its Conceal Java crypto libraries for Android devices. Conceal, according to Facebook, offers developers a lightweight and efficient crypto library. The social media giant developed Conceal to handle encryption of storage on removable SD cards, something that...

Yahoo Encryption Slammed for Lack of Forward Secrecy, HSTS

Yahoo, as promised, rolled out HTTPs by default this week for its email service, bringing it in line with other Internet companies that have been securing users’ communication for years. But if Yahoo expected applause from security experts, it can think again. The response from those well-versed ...

Fedora 18 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc18 (2013-23299)

Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM Improved Cisco interop, IKEv2 improvements, bugfixes 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...

Fedora 20 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc20 (2013-23250)

Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM 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 introducing additional...

Fedora 19 : libreswan-3.7-1.fc19 (2013-23315)

Security fix for CVE-2013-4564, extended AES-GCM and AES-CCM support Improved Cisco interop, IKEv2 improvements, bugfixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH AES-GCM memory corruption vulnerability Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced: 2013-11-19...

OpenSSH memory corruption

Memory corruption in AES-GCM implementation...

[slackware-security] openssh

New openssh packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/openssh-6.4p1-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. sshd8: fix a memory corruption problem triggered during rekeying when an AES-GCM cipher...

FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH AES-GCM memory corruption vulnerability Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced:...

openssh: security fix for remote code execution with AES-GCM (important)

openssh was updated to fix a memory corruption when AES-GCM is used which could lead to remote code execution after successful authentication. CVE-2013-4548...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2014-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG 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...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (SAT Patch Number 8484)

"Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.15.2 bnc847708 bringing various features and bugfixes : The main feature is TLS 1.2 support and its dependent algorithms. - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add...

SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (SAT Patch Numbers 8484 / 8485)

"Mozilla NSS has been updated to 3.15.2 bnc847708 bringing various features and bugfixes : The main feature is TLS 1.2 support and its dependent algorithms. - Support for AES-GCM ciphersuites that use the SHA-256 PRF - MD2, MD4, and MD5 signatures are no longer accepted for OCSP or CRLs - Add...

OpenSSH 6.2 and 6.3 AES-GCM Cipher Memory Corruption

According to its banner, the version of OpenSSH running on the remote host is version 6.2 or 6.3. It is, therefore, affected by a memory corruption vulnerability in post-authentication when the AES-GCM cipher is used for the key exchange. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to arbitrary...

Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4, SHA-1

The RC4 and SHA-1 algorithms have taken a lot of hits in recent years, with new attacks popping up on a regular basis. Many security experts and cryptographers have been recommending that vendors begin phasing the two out, and Microsoft on Tuesday said that is now recommending to developers that...

Security Advisory 2868725: Recommendation to disable RC4

In light of recent research into practical attacks on biases in the RC4 stream cipher, Microsoft is recommending that customers enable TLS1.2 in their services and take steps to retire and deprecate RC4 as used in their TLS implementations. Microsoft recommends TLS1.2 with AES-GCM as a more secur...

OpenSSH v6.2 / v6.3 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Binary data 8051.prm...

OpenSSH 6.2 / 6.3 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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FreeBSD : OpenSSH -- Memory corruption in sshd (5709d244-4873-11e3-8a46-000d601460a4)

The OpenSSH development team reports : A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the post- authentication sshd process when an AES-GCM cipher [email protected] or [email protected] is selected during kex exchange. If exploited, this vulnerability might permit code execution with the...