Alpha Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Released

A sandboxed version of the Tor Browser was released over the weekend, and while there are still some rough edges and bugs – potentially major, according to the developer– it could be the first step toward protecting Tor users from recent de-anonymization exploits. Yawning Angel, a longtime Tor...

Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access on Some Linux Systems

A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems. From there, an attacker could have the ability to copy, modify, or destroy a hard disk, or use the network to exfiltrate...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

CVE-2016-5425

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group...

PT-2016-6422 · Apache +2 · Apache Tomcat +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apache Tomcat on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf,...

Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner: WPScan

WPScan is a Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner that attempts to find known security weaknesses within WordPress installations. The application is provided for security professionals or WordPress administrators to help them find security problems and vulnerabilities in their installations. ...

DHCP exhaustion attack: DHCPig

dhcpig – an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack DHCPig initiates an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack. It will consume all IPs on the LAN, stop new users from obtaining IPs, release any IPs in use, then for good measure send gratuitous ARP and knock all windows hosts offline. It requires scapy =2.1...

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...

Libuser Library - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Libuser Library - Multiple Vulnerabilities Qualys Security Advisory CVE-2015-3245 userhelper chfn newline filtering CVE-2015-3246 libuser passwd file handling -- Summary ----------------------------------------------------------------- The libuser library implements a standardized interface for...

Libuser Library - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc CVE-2015-3245 userhelper chfn newline filtering CVE-2015-3246 libuser passwd file handling -- Summary ----------------------------------------------------------------- The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and...

Qualys Security Advisory - userhelper / libuser

Qualys Security Advisory CVE-2015-3245 userhelper chfn newline filtering CVE-2015-3246 libuser passwd file handling -- Summary ----------------------------------------------------------------- The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and grou...

The Ghost vulnerability the GHOST remote using the EXP-bug warning-the black bar safety net

This article demonstrates one of the Ghost vulnerability the GHOST of EXP, this EXP is Metasploit a module. This Metasploit module can be remote exploit CVE-2 0 1 5-0 2 3 5 out of glibc library gethostbyname function heap overflow vulnerability vulnerability, the goal is to run the Exim mail...

Shellshock Worm Exploits Bash in QNAP NAS Devices

A worm exploiting network attached storage devices vulnerable to the Bash flaw is scanning the Internet for more victims. The worm opens a backdoor on QNAP devices, but to date it appears the attackers are using the exploit to run a click-fraud scam, in addition to maintaining persistence on owne...

The latest Bash vulnerability patch Junior programme-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Bash broke the remote parsing command execution vulnerability, CVE-2 0 1 4-6 2 7 1, the spread of major Linux distributions and MacOSX systems. Vulnerability can be directly in the Bash support the Web CGI environment remote execution of arbitrary commands. bash is injected after the public...

LHA 1.x Multiple extract_one Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10354/info LHA has been reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities that may allow a malicious archive to execute arbitrary code or corrupt arbitrary files when the archive is operated on. These issues are triggered in the...

UML_NET Integer Mismanagement Code Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7676/info A vulnerability has been discovered in umlnet. Due to integer mismanagement while handling version information, it may be possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Specifically, by supplying a negative...

kon2 Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7790/info A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported for the kon2 utility shipped with various Linux distributions. Exploitation of this vulnerability may result in a local attacker obtaining elevated privileges on...

Conectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,RedHat 6.x,S.u.S.E 6.x/7.0,Trustix 1.x rpc.statd Remote Format String (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1480/info A vulnerability exists in the 'rpc.statd' program, which is part of the 'nfs-utils' package that is shipped with a number of popular Linux distributions. Because of a format-string vulnerability when calling the...