Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.160 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release contains security fixes. Security fixes and rewards: Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date...

chromium -- WebKit vulnerability

Google Chrome Releases reports: 180763 High CVE-2013-0912: Type confusion in WebKit. Credit to Nils and Jon of MWR Labs...

XSS vulnerabilities in ZeroClipboard

Hello 3APA3A! These are Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities in ZeroClipboard. Last week I've made my research of these vulnerabilities and informed all developers previous and current of ZeroClipboard. When I've downloaded ZeroClipboard in September 2011, when I was writing my article Attacks vi...

USN-1704-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. CVE-2012-0957 Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel-based virtual machine subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts,...

Dan Guido on the THREADS Mobile Security Conference

Dennis Fisher talks with Dan Guido, CEO of Trail of Bits and hacker-in-residence at NYU-Poly, about the school’s first mobile security conference, called THREADS, taking place this week in Brooklyn. Part of the college’s Cybersecurity Awareness Week CSAW, THREADS will include speaker such as Dino...

Researchers bypass Google Bouncer Android Security

Researchers bypass Google Bouncer Android Security Google's Android platform has become the most popular mobile operating system both among consumers and malware writers, and the company earlier this year introduced the Bouncer system to look for malicious apps in the Google Play market. Bouncer,...

JON: LDAP authentication allows any user access if bind credentials are bad

Red Hat JBoss Operations Network JON 3.0.x before 3.0.1, 2.4.2, and earlier, when LDAP authentication is enabled and the LDAP bind account credentials are invalid, allows remote attackers to login to LDAP-based accounts via an arbitrary password in a login request...

CVE-2011-3206

The CVE-2011-3206 entry describes multiple XSS vulnerabilities in the RHQ/JBoss ON administration interface (RHQ 4.2.0, used in JBoss Operations Network before 3.0). The root cause is lack of input validation in the administration UI, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary script/HTML via ...

Linux Kernel 2.6.36.2 (Ubuntu 10.04) - Half-Nelson.c Econet Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel 2.6.36.2 Ubuntu 10.04 - Half-Nelson.c Econet Privilege Escalation / half-nelson.c Linux Kernel http://jon.oberheide.org Information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3848 Stack-based buffer overflow in the econetsendmsg function in net/econet/afeconet.c in the...

Apple Hires New Security Chief

Apple has hired a software security expert to head up its growing internal security group. The company has hired David Rice, a former National Security Agency analyst and consultant on security issues, according to reports. Rice is currently the director of policy reform at the U.S. Cyber...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: evince security update

Updated evince packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

NIST Announces SHA-3 Hash Function Finalists

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen the five finalists for the last round of its competition to find the next hash function standard. The SHA-3 finalists include Skein, developed by a group including Bruce Schneier and Jon Callas. The other four SHA-3 finalists are BLAKE...

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.3 SCTP INIT Denial Of Service

From: http://jon.oberheide.org/files/sctp-boom.py !/usr/bin/env python ''' sctp-boom.py Linux Kernel http://jon.oberheide.org Information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1173 The sctpprocessunkparam function in net/sctp/smmakechunk.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.33.3 and earlie...

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.3 - SCTP INIT Remote Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.3 - SCTP INIT Remote Denial of Service From: http://jon.oberheide.org/files/sctp-boom.py !/usr/bin/env python ''' sctp-boom.py Linux Kernel http://jon.oberheide.org Information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1173 The sctpprocessunkparam function in...

Jon Oberheide on Linux Kernel Exploitation

At the SOURCE conference in Boston, security researcher Jon Oberheide discusses the intricacies of Linux kernel exploitation...

Researchers Get Funding for New Secure Operating System

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a $1.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a new computer operating system based on virtual machines and the concept of isolation. The new OS project, called Ethos, is the brainchild of UIC associate...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.oxfordscholarship.com

Security researcher Jon Butler, has submitted on 21/01/2010 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.oxfordscholarship.com, which at the time of submission ranked 568418 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 06/07/2010. ...

Linux Kernel < 2.6.14.6 procfs Kernel Memory Disclosure Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits =============================================================== Linux Kernel include include include include include include include include include...

Jon Callas on PGP, Crypto History and Cloud Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Jon Callas, CTO of PGP, about the history of cryptography, the evolution of PGP itself and the future of cloud security. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...

OpenSSL < 0.9.8i - DTLS ChangeCipherSpec Remote Denial of Service

/ cve-2009-1386.c OpenSSL http://jon.oberheide.org Information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1386 OpenSSL would SegFault if the DTLS server receives a ChangeCipherSpec as the first record instead of ClientHello. Usage: Pass the host and port of the target DTLS server: $...