Government Releases Policy on Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure

After more than a year of legal wrangling, the federal government has agreed to hand over its policy on vulnerability use and disclosure. The government had said that the policy was classified and too sensitive to release, but relented late last week and sent the document to the EFF, albeit a...

CVE-2015-6259

CVE-2015-6259 affects Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor prior to 1.0.0.1 and Cisco UCS Director prior to 5.2.0.1. The JSP component enables remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via crafted HTTP requests, a vulnerability tracked as CSCus36435/CSCus62625. The issue is...

printk is not rate-limited in xenmem_add_to_physmap_one

ISSUE DESCRIPTION XENMAPSPACEgmfnforeign dumps the p2m, on ARM, when it fails to get a reference on the foreign page. However, dumpp2mlookup does not use rate-limited printk. A malicious infrastructure domain, which is allowed to map memory of a foreign guest, would be able to flood the Xen...

Target Says SEC Won't Pursue Enforcement Action as a Result of Data Breach

Target officials say that the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of several U.S. agencies investigating the massive data breach at the company in 2013, has decided not to punish Target as a result of the breach. The Target data breach is one of the larger such incidents ever. The breach...

Two Arrested For Dropping Drugs And Porn Into Prison Using A Drone

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs, popularly known as Drones, is rapidly transforming the way crimes are conducted, and this story helps prove this right. Maryland State Police arrested two men – Thaddeus Shortz and Keith Brian Russell – suspected of allegedly trying to smuggle drugs and...

CVE-2015-6262

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.20.103 and 2.00.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug IDs CSCum49054 and CSCum49059...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.20.103 and 2.00.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug IDs CSCum49054 and CSCum49059...

CVE-2015-6262

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.20.103 and 2.00.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug IDs CSCum49054 and CSCum49059...

CVE-2015-6262

CVE-2015-6262 describes a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure (versions 1.2(0.103) and 2.0(0.0)) that could allow remote attackers to hijack a user’s session. Root cause: insufficient CSRF protections in the web interface. Exploitation involves luring a user to ...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Web Interface Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Cisco Prime Infrastructure is an all-in-one package that provides complete infrastructure wired and wireless and mobile lifecycle management provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, fixing, and reporting. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in Cisco Prime Infrastructure that could...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Web Interface Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site request forgery CSRF attack against the user of the web interface. The vulnerability is due to insufficient CSRF protections. An attacker could exploit this...

Authentication flaw

Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI 1.40.45 and earlier, when AAA authentication is used, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via a username with a modified composition of lowercase and uppercase characters, aka Bug ID CSum59958...

CVE-2015-4331

Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI 1.40.45 and earlier, when AAA authentication is used, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via a username with a modified composition of lowercase and uppercase characters, aka Bug ID CSum59958...

CVE-2015-4331

Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) 1.4(0.45) and earlier stores case-sensitive usernames and performs case-sensitive string comparisons. When AAA authentication is configured, remote authenticated users can bypass access restrictions by using a username with mixed-case characters, potentially leadin...

CVE-2015-4331

Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI 1.40.45 and earlier, when AAA authentication is used, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions via a username with a modified composition of lowercase and uppercase characters, aka Bug ID CSum59958...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a wireless management solution through Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution and Cisco Prime Network Control System technologies. A security vulnerability exists in Cisco Prime Infrastructure, as the program stores case-sensitive usernames and performs case-sensitive...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI username storage and authentication process could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on a targeted system. The vulnerability occurs because the affected software saves case-sensitive usernames and performs...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure contains SUID root binaries

Overview The Cisco Prime Infrastructure version 2.2 contains two binaries with SUID root world-executable privileges, allowing any local user to execute arbitrary commands as root. Description CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions Two binaries are included in Cisco Prime version 2.2 that run as...

Researchers to Share Details of Cyber-Terrorists Targeting Indian Government Officials

The Potential threat, range from very narrow to very broad, posed by Cyber-Terrorism has provoked considerable alarm. Terrorists involved in Cyber Espionage and Operations aim at gaining access to Nation's critical infrastructure involving both Government as well as Private sectors. The Frequency...

The popular DNS server software BIND exposed serious DoS vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

BIND is the world's most popular DNS server software. The Internet Association, the ISC published Vulnerability CVE-2 0 1 5-5 4 7 7 patch, this is an affected BIND server to a serious denial of service vulnerability. BIND denial of service vulnerability A week ago, the Internet Association, the I...