General Motors GM Vulnerability Disclosure Program

General Motors’ new vulnerability disclosure program puts it alongside Tesla as the only major automakers with a mechanism for security researchers to report flaws. Unlike Tesla’s program, however, GM’s does not offer a monetary reward. GM launched its program last week via the HackerOne platform...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3434-1 (linux - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. CVE-2015-7513 It was discovered that a local user permitted to use the x86 KVM subsystem could configure the PIT emulation to cause a denial of service...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the Ashley Madison Breach and the Wyndham Data Breach Decision

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the quasi-interesting fallout from the Ashley Madison hack, the appeals court decision about the Wyndham data breaches, and Charlie Miller leaving Twitter. Download: digitalunderground217.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Charlie Miller to Leave Twitter Security Team

Charlie Miller, one of the more respected and accomplished security researchers in the industry, is leaving Twitter’s security team after three years. Miller said on Monday that he is leaving the company at the end of this week and that he plans to announce his new job next week. Miller joined...

Cyber UL Could Become Reality Under Leadership of Hacker Mudge

UPDATE–One of the longstanding problems in security–and the software industry in general–is the lack of any universally acknowledged authority on quality and reliability. But the industry moved one step closer to making such a clearinghouse a reality this week when Peiter Zatko, a longtime...

Harman-Kardon Uconnect Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory is a follow-up to the ICS-ALERT titled ICS-ALERT-15-203-01 FCA Uconnect VulnerabilityICS-CERT ALERT, https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/alerts/ICS-ALERT-15-203-01, web site last accessed September 17, 2015. that was published July 22, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Chris...

DLA-160-1 sudo - security update

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Todd Miller Sudo Local Security Bypass Vulnerability

Sudo is a program that allows users to securely execute commands with other user privileges and is widely used under Linux and Unix operating systems. A local security bypass vulnerability exists in Todd Miller Sudo, which allows local attackers to exploit the vulnerability to bypass security...

Podcast: Threatpost Previews Black Hat 2014

In this special edition of the Digital Underground Podcast, Dennis Fisher interviews fellow Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso and also Threatpost reporter Brian Donohue about the Black Hat security conference, which begins this week in Las Vegas. Topics of discussion include Chris Valasek and Charlie...

botan -- cryptographic vulnerability

MITRE reports: The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group...

Todd Miller Sudo 'validate_env_vars()'本地权限提升漏洞

BUGTRAQ ID: 65997 CVECAN ID: CVE-2014-0106 Sudo是允许系统管理员让普通用户执行一些或者全部的root命令的一个工具，减少了root用户的登陆和管理时间，提高了安全性。 sudo 1.6.9-1.8.4p5版本启用后envreset后，没有正确过滤某些环境变量，在实现上存在本地权限提升漏洞，本地攻击者可利用此漏洞以提升的权限运行任意命令。 0 Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.9 - 1.8.4p5 厂商补丁： Todd Miller ----------- 目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复这个安全问题，请到厂商的主页下载：...

RedHat Update for sudo RHSA-2014:0266-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Oracle Linux 5 : sudo (ELSA-2014-0266)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0266 advisory. 1.7.2p1-29 - added patch for CVE-2014-0106: certain environment variables not sanitized when envreset is disabled Resolves: rhbz1072210 Tenable has extracted th...

sudo security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0266 An updated sudo package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

How to Fail at Black Hat

Every summer, the hacker intelligentsia descends on Las Vegas like a swarm of thirsty locusts that spends seven days chasing free drinks and avoiding sunlight at all costs. Black Hat and DEF CON week can be an overwhelming and confusing experience, especially for the uninitiated or agoraphobic. B...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2010)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2010 advisory. - block check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blkrqmapuseriov Xiaotian Feng CVE-2010-4668 - scm: lower SCMMAXFD Eric Dumazet...

PlayStation hacker gets year of House Arrest for destroying evidence of Hack

23-year-old Todd Miller, suspected of hacking into Sony's PlayStation Network, was due to be arrested, will spend a year on house arrest, but not for the hacking. Instead, he was sentenced yesterday in federal court for obstructing a federal investigation because he smashed his computers, halting...

PlayStation hacker gets year of House Arrest for destroying evidence of Hack

23-year-old Todd Miller, suspected of hacking into Sony’s PlayStation Network, was due to be arrested, will spend a year on house arrest, but not for the hacking. Instead, he was sentenced yesterday in federal court for obstructing a federal investigation because he smashed his computers, halting...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1/-2.6.10/-2.6.12 vulnerabilities (USN-219-1)

Al Viro discovered a race condition in the /proc file handler of network devices. A local attacker could exploit this by opening any file in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf// and waiting until that interface was shut down. Under certain circumstances this could lead to a kernel crash or even arbitrary co...

Groundbreaking Cyber Fast Track Research Program Ending

VANCOUVER–When Peiter Zatko, the security researcher and pioneering hacker known as Mudge, joined the federal government several years ago to help run a DARPA research program, some in the security industry wondered what effect someone with his background could have in an organization as famously...