U.S. Should Play Larger Role in Securing Internet, Hathaway Says

In her much anticipated talk, acting senior director for cyberspace by President Obama, Melissa Hathaway generally reviewed what we already knew, and what has been previously reported when it comes to federal cyber security: The White House should coordinate IT security efforts; private sector...

HP Storage Essentials Secure NaviCLI未明远程特权提升漏洞

BUGTRAQ ID: 34613 CVE ID：CVE-2009-0715 CNCVE ID：CNCVE-20090715 HP Storage Essentials是一款基础设施管理解决方案，消除服务器和存储管理的复杂性。 HP Storage Essentials运行Secure NaviCLI存在安全漏洞，远程攻击者可以利用漏洞获得未授权访问或获得更高的特权。 目前没有详细漏洞细节提供。 HP Storage Essentials SRM Standard 6.0.4 HP Storage Essentials SRM Standard 6.0.3 HP Storage...

Bad outweighs the good in Senate cybersecurity bill

The Senate bill introduced earlier this month that would make sweeping changes to the way that information security is practiced both in the federal government and the private sector has a number of good elements, but the flaws in the proposed legislation outweight the benefits, writes Steve...

Electrical grid attacks have been ongoing for years

The supposedly new attacks on the electrical grid and other portions of the country’s critical infrastructure that came to light this week are in fact not new at all and have been ongoing for several years. Attackers have been making serious inroads into U.S. government, utility and military...

PT-2009-3785 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.29.1 Description: The issue is related to the "udp seq file infrastructure" in the Linux kernel. It allows local users to cause a denial of service panic by reading zero bytes from the /proc/net/udp file and...

PT-2009-3770 · Check Point · Check Point Firewall-1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Check Point Firewall-1 PKI Web Service affected versions not specified Description: A buffer overflow issue in the PKI Web Service allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long Authorizati...

U.S. falling far behind on cybersecurity

In the next few weeks President Barack Obama will be handed a report detailing the country’s cybersecurity defenses and laying out what’s needed to protect America’s technology resources from hostile nations and organized crime groups. It will not be a pretty picture. Cybersecurity experts, forme...

systemtap security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0373 Updated systemtap packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. SystemTap is an instrumentation...

Infrastructure attacks: A growing concern

In an essay published on his personal blog doxpara.com, security researcher Dan Kaminsky is starting to sound the alarm about “the extraordinary damage” we face from infrastructure attacks, warning that the industry needs to treat infrastructure with more security due diligence and care. “Forget...

Six months later, DNS still taking a hit

It’s been more than six months since Dan Kaminksy detailed the problems he had found lurking in the DNS system, and the coordinated patching effort that followed his discovery was nothing short of extraordinary. A huge percentage of the vulnerable servers were patched before the details of the fl...

CVE-2008-4285

Unspecified vulnerability in the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure PMI feature in the Servlet Engine/Web Container component in IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS 6.1.x before 6.1.0.19, when a component statistic is enabled, allows attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via...

IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 < Fix Pack 21 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Design/Logic Flaw

PerfServlet in the PMI/Performance Tools component in IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS 6.0.x before 6.0.2.31, 6.1.x before 6.1.0.21, and 7.0.x before 7.0.0.1, when Performance Monitoring Infrastructure PMI is enabled, allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the 1...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: boinc-client-6.4.5-2.20081217svn.fc9

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC is an open- source software platform which supports distributed computing, primarily in the form of "volunteer" computing and "desktop Grid" computing. It is well suited for problems which are often described as "trivially parallel". BO...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhpki security and bug fix update

Updated pkisetup, rhpki-common, rhpki-ca, rhpki-kra, rhpki-ocsp, rhpki-tks, and rhpki-tps and rhpki-util for Solaris 9 packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Certificate System 7.2. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: proftpd-1.3.1-8.fc9

ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based...

Autodesk LiveUpdate ActiveX Control Code Execution (CVE-2008-4471; CVE-2008-4472)

Autodesk provides several software products for professional designing of buildings and other infrastructure. A code execution vulnerability has been reported in Autodesk LiveUpdate ActiveX control within multiple products. The vulnerability is due to an error in the Autodesk LiveUpdate ActiveX...

Cisco IOS MPLS Forwarding Infrastructure Denial of Service Vulnerability

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CVE-2008-3856

The routine infrastructure component in IBM DB2 8 before FP17, 9.1 before FP5, and 9.5 before FP1 on Unix and Linux does not change the ownership of the db2fmp process, which has unknown impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2008-3856

The CVE-2008-3856 entry concerns IBM DB2 on Unix/Linux where the db2fmp process does not change its ownership for DB2 versions 8 before FP17, 9.1 before FP5, and 9.5 before FP1. The underlying cause is stated as an ownership handling issue, with unknown impact and attack vectors; the provided doc...