Debian DLA-92-1 : tomcat-native security followup update

This is an upgrade from tomcat-native 1.1.20 the version previously available in squeeze to 1.1.31, the full list of changes between these versions can be seen in the upstream changelog, which is available online at http://tomcat.apache.org/native-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html This update itse...

DRAM Rowhammer vulnerability Leads to Kernel Privilege Escalation

Security researchers have find out ways to hijack the Intel-compatible PCs running Linux by exploiting the physical weaknesses in certain varieties of DDR DRAM double data rate dynamic random-access memory chips and gaining higher kernel privileges on the system. The technique, dubbed "rowhammer"...

Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges

Rowhammer blog post draft Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, reverse engineer This guest post continues Project Zero’s practice of promoting excellence in security research on the Project Zero blog Overview “Rowhammer” is a problem with some...

Rowhammer - NaCl Sandbox Escape

Rowhammer - NaCl Sandbox Escape Sources: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ca/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=284 Full PoC:...

Rowhammer - NaCl Sandbox Escape

Sources: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ca/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=284 Full PoC: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/36311.tar.gz This is a proof-of-conce...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: pcre-8.32-12.fc19

Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are base d on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow...

openSUSE Security Update : java-1_7_0-openjdk (openSUSE-SU-2014:1638-1)

This openjdk update fixes the following security and non security issues : - Upgrade to 2.4.8 bnc887530 - Changed back from gzipped tarball to xz - Changed the keyring file to add Andrew John Hughes that signed the icedtea package - Change ZERO to AARCH64 tarball - Removed patches : -...

Sandbox escapes: Google App Engine GAE in the presence of a 3 0+a sandbox bypass vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Security researchers at Google App Engine Google App Engine's Java environment found a large number of high-risk vulnerabilities that an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass Google's security sandbox protection. Google App Engine Google App Engine is a Google-managed data centers...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.3.0 update

Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.2.3, which fixes multiple security issues and several bugs, is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

HawtJNI: predictable temporary file name leading to local arbitrary code execution

The HawtJNI Library class wrote native libraries to a predictable file name in /tmp when the native libraries were bundled in a JAR file, and no custom library path was specified. A local attacker could overwrite these native libraries with malicious versions during the window between when HawtJN...

[SECURITY] [DLA 92-1] tomcat-native security followup update

Package : tomcat-native Version : 1.1.31-1deb6u1 This is an upgrade from tomcat-native 1.1.20 the version previously available in squeeze to 1.1.31, the full list of changes between these versions can be seen in the upstream changelog, which is available online at...

DLA-92-1 tomcat-native - security update

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MGASA-2014-0461 Updated hawtjni packages fix security vulnerability

The HawtJNI Library class wrote native libraries to a predictable file name in /tmp/ when the native libraries were bundled in a JAR file, and no custom library path was specified. A local attacker could overwrite these native libraries with malicious versions during the window between when HawtJ...

Updated hawtjni packages fix security vulnerability

The HawtJNI Library class wrote native libraries to a predictable file name in /tmp/ when the native libraries were bundled in a JAR file, and no custom library path was specified. A local attacker could overwrite these native libraries with malicious versions during the window between when HawtJ...

openSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2014:1378-1)

Update to Chromium 38.0.2125.101 This update includes 159 security fixes, including 113 relatively minor fixes. Highlighted securtiy fixes are: CVE-2014-3188: A combination of V8 and IPC bugs that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox CVE-2014-3189: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : OpenSSL vulnerability (K15325)

OpenSSL before 0.9.8za, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0m, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1h does not properly restrict processing of ChangeCipherSpec messages, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of a zero-length master key in certain OpenSSL-to-OpenSSL communications, and consequently hijack sessio...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: xerces-j2-2.11.0-17.fc20

Welcome to the future! Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface XNI, a complete framework f or building parser components and configurations that is extremely...

HawtJNI: predictable temporary file name leading to local arbitrary code execution

The HawtJNI Library class wrote native libraries to a predictable file name in /tmp when the native libraries were bundled in a JAR file, and no custom library path was specified. A local attacker could overwrite these native libraries with malicious versions during the window between when HawtJN...

CoreGraphics Information Disclosure - CVE-2014-4378

This article explores the exploitability of MobileSafari on IOS 7.1.x. Using a crafted PDF file as an HTML image makes it possible to leak information about the memory layout to the browser Javascript interpreter. Apple CoreGraphics library fails to validate input when parsing the colorspace...

CVE-2014-0568

The NtSetInformationFile system call hook feature in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.12 and 11.x before 11.0.09 on Windows allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism, and consequently execute native code in a privileged context, via an NTFS junction attack...