Latest TeslaCrypt Targets New File Extensions, Invests Heavily in Evasion

TeslaCrypt, like many of its ransomware cousins, doesn’t sleep on past success. Researchers at Endgame Inc., have found two updates for the cryptoransomware in the past two weeks that invest heavily in obfuscation and evasion techniques, and also target a host of new file extensions. These sample...

The vulnerability of the Apache Tomcat application server allows attackers to gain access to web sessions.

The vulnerability of the Apache Tomcat application server is related to deficiencies in establishing the session identifier. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to gain access to web sessions by utilizing the requestedSessionSSL field in the request...

Android Telephony Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Telephony is one of the components that provides telephony functionality. The internal/telephony/PhoneSubInfoController.java file in Telephony in versions 5.x prior to Android 5.1.1 LMY49H...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201603-09

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.121451";...

GLSA-201603-07 : Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201603-07 Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly...

VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service...

MGASA-2016-0091 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities: ASN.1 BER dissector crash CVE-2016-2522. DNP dissector infinite loop CVE-2016-2523. X.509AF dissector crash CVE-2016-2524. HTTP/2 dissector crash CVE-2016-2525. HiQnet dissector crash CVE-2016-2526. 3GPP TS 32.423 Trace file parser crash...

CVE-2016-0800

The SSLv2 protocol, as used in OpenSSL before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g and other products, requires a server to send a ServerVerify message before establishing that a client possesses certain plaintext RSA data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to decrypt TLS ciphertext data by...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) regression (USN-2910-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2910-2 advisory. USN-2910-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 15.04 Linux kernel backported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. An incorrect locking fix caused a regression that broke graphics...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0706

Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.45, 7.x before 7.0.68, 8.x before 8.0.31, and 9.x before 9.0.0.M2 does not place org.apache.catalina.manager.StatusManagerServlet on the org/apache/catalina/core/RestrictedServlets.properties list, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended...

USN-2907-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

halfdog discovered that OverlayFS, when mounting on top of a FUSE mount, incorrectly propagated file attributes, including setuid. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to gain privileges. CVE-2016-1576 halfdog discovered that OverlayFS in the Linux kernel incorrectly propagated security...

SUSE-SU-2016:0458-1 Security update for rubygem-activerecord-4_2

This update for rubygem-activerecord-42 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-0753: Input Validation Circumvention bsc963334 - CVE-2015-7577: Nested attributes rejection proc bypass bsc963330...

libsndfile: multiple issues

CVE-2014-9496 unspecified impact The sd2parsersrcfork function in sd2.c in libsndfile allows attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to a 1 map offset or 2 rsrc marker, which triggers an out-of-bounds read. - CVE-2014-9756 denial of service The psffwrite function in fileio.c in...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2888-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2016:0318-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

USN-2890-2 linux-lts-wily vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

USN-2890-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

USN-2888-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-2890-3)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2890-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2890-2 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...