[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: opus-1.1.3-2.fc25

The Opus codec is designed for interactive speech and audio transmission ov er the Internet. It is designed by the IETF Codec Working Group and incorporat es technology from Skype's SILK codec and Xiph.Org's CELT codec...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: mingw-libidn-1.33-1.fc25

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names IDN working group, used for internationalized domain names...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openslp-2.0.0-8.fc23

Service Location Protocol is an IETF standards track protocol that provides a framework to allow networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services in enterprise networks. OpenSLP is an open source implementation of the SLPv2 protocol as defined b...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: openslp-2.0.0-9.fc24

Service Location Protocol is an IETF standards track protocol that provides a framework to allow networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services in enterprise networks. OpenSLP is an open source implementation of the SLPv2 protocol as defined b...

Debian DSA-3353-1 : openslp-dfsg - security update

Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 discovered a double free flaw in OpenSLP, an implementation of the IETF Service Location Protocol. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

[SECURITY] [DLA 291-1] libidn security update

Package : libidn Version : 1.15-2+deb6u2 Adam Sampson found a vulnerability in GNU Libidn, library that implements the IETF IDN specifications. Libdin incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8 input, causing it to bad free. This issue was introduced by the fix for CVE-2015-2059. For Debian 6 “Squeeze”,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libidn-1.31-1.fc21

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names IDN working group, used for internationalized domain names...

IETF Officially Deprecates SSLv3

Attacks such as POODLE and BEAST not only caused some sleepless nights for server admins having to patch against the respective weaknesses, but they also accelerated SSLV3 deprecation. In the time since both attacks were disclosed, major browsers have removed the fallback condition that enabled t...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: openslp-1.2.1-22.fc20

Service Location Protocol is an IETF standards track protocol that provides a framework to allow networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services in enterprise networks. OpenSLP is an open source implementation of the SLPv2 protocol as defined b...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2014:1510-1)

update to Firefox 31.2.0 ESR bnc900941 - MFSA 2014-74/CVE-2014-1574/CVE-2014-1575 bmo1001994, bmo1011354, bmo1018916, bmo1020034, bmo1023035, bmo1032208, bmo1033020, bmo1034230, bmo1061214, bmo1061600, bmo1064346, bmo1072044, bmo1072174 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:33.0/rv:31.2 - MFSA...

Mozilla to Support Certificate Transparency in Firefox

Mozilla is planning to add support for Certificate Transparency checks in Firefox in the near future, but the company says that the feature won’t be turned on by default at first. Certificate Transparency is a proposal from engineers at Google that would help resolve some of the issues with...

Facebook Yahoo Require-Recipient-Valid-Since SMTP Extension

Yahoo’s decision in June 2013 to reset accounts that had been dormant for 12 months and make them available to other users raised a number of security and privacy red flags. It was feared that the potential for identity theft would grow given that if an old Yahoo account was linked to another...

Internet Bug Bounty: open redirect in rfc6749

OAuth Providers servers that strictly follow rfc6749 are vulnerable to open redirect. Let me explain, reading 0 If the request fails due to a missing, invalid, or mismatching redirection URI, or if the client identifier is missing or invalid, the authorization server SHOULD inform the resource...

Google Recommends Developers Support OAuth 2.0

Google announced today that in the coming months it will be more stringent in securing users when they log in to their accounts by applying additional authorization checks. “These additional checks will ensure that only the intended user has access to their account, whether through a browser,...

IRTF Chair Refuses Removal of NSA Employee as Co-Chair of Crypto Working Group

An NSA employee who is the co-chairman of a cryptography working group affiliated with the IETF will remain in that position despite calls from members to have him removed. The chairman of the Internet Research Task Force, the body that oversees the research group, rejected requests for the remov...

New IETF Group to Tackle TLS Implementation in Applications

The NSA surveillance scandal has created ripples all across the Internet, and the latest one is a new effort from the IETF to change the way that encryption is used in a variety of critical application protocols, including HTTP and SMTP. The new TLS application working group was formed to help...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: gnutls-3.1.16-1.fc20

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gnutls-3.1.15-1.fc19

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...

IETF Discussing Ways to Protect Internet Against Pervasive Surveillance

The IETF is considering a range of options to help reengineer some of the fundamental protocols that underpin the Internet in response to revelations that the NSA and other intelligence agencies are conducting widespread, dragnet-style surveillance online. The group, which is responsible for...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: gnutls-2.12.23-2.fc17

GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implem ents the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group...