Fedora 23 : curl (2016-80f4f71eff)

reject negative string lengths in curleasyunescape CVE-2016-7167 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

hacklib - Pentesting, Port Scanning, and Logging in anywhere with Python

Toolkit for hacking enthusiasts using Python. hacklib is a Python module for hacking enthusiasts interested in network security. It is currently in active development. Installation To get hacklib, simply run in command line: pip install hacklib hacklib also has a user interface. To use it, you ca...

Symantec Web Gateway Management Console Interface Command Injection

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address a Symantec Web Gateway SWG Management Console Interface command injection issue bypassing validation restrictions to add an unauthorized whitelist entry. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Symantec Web Gateway SWG --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation...

Debian DLA-644-1 : libav security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libav : CVE-2015-1872 The ffmjpegdecodesof function in libavcodec/mjpegdec.c in Libav before 0.8.18 does not validate the number of components in a JPEG-LS Start Of Frame segment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds...

Debian DLA-641-1 : ruby-activesupport-3.2 security update

Active Support in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, and 5.x before 5.0.0.beta1.1 supports the use of instance-level writers for class accessors, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended validation steps via crafted parameters. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems...

ALPINE-CVE-2016-7141

curl and libcurl before 7.50.2, when built with NSS and the libnsspem.so library is available at runtime, allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of a TLS connection by leveraging reuse of a previously loaded client certificate from file for a connection for which no certificate has...

Source Code Released for Mirai DDoS Malware

The dangers of haphazardly connecting embedded devices to the Internet have manifested themselves in mammoth distributed denial-of-service attacks, in particular one two weeks ago against security journalist Brian Krebs’ website that peaked at better than 620 Gbps. The situation worsened over the...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : postgresql94 (SUSE-SU-2016:2418-1)

This update for postgresql94 to version 9.4.9 fixes the several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-5423: CASE/WHEN with inlining can cause untrusted pointer dereference bsc993454. - CVE-2016-5424: Fix client programs' handling of special characters in database and role names...

Cisco Warns of Critical Flaw in Email Security Appliances

Cisco Systems released a critical security bulletin for a vulnerability that allows remote unauthenticated users to gain complete control of its email security appliances. The vulnerability is tied to Cisco’s IronPort AsyncOS operating system. Cisco first issued a security bulletin last week for...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2016:2399-1)

The nameserver bind was updated to fix a remote denial of service vulnerability, where a crafted packet could cause the nameserver to abort. CVE-2016-2776, bsc1000362 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : flex, at, bogofilter, cyrus-imapd, kdelibs4, libQtWebKit4, libbonobo, mdbtools, netpbm, openslp, sgmltool, virtuoso, libqt5-qtwebkit (SUSE-SU-2016:2397-1)

Various packages included vulnerable parsers generated by 'flex'. This update provides a fixed 'flex' package and also rebuilds of packages that might have security issues caused by the auto generated code. Flex itself was updated to fix a buffer overflow in the generated scanner bsc990856,...

Debian DLA-639-1 : mactelnet security update

CVE-2016-7115 Buffer overflow in the handlepacket function in mactelnet.c in the client in MAC-Telnet 0.4.3 and earlier allows remote TELNET servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in an MTCPTYPEENCRYPTIONKEY control packet. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in...

Debian DLA-634-1 : dropbear security update

It was discovered that there were two issues in dropbear, a lightweight SSH2 server and client : - CVE-2016-7406: Potential issues in exit message formatting. - CVE-2016-7407: Overflows when parsing OpenSSH's ASN.1 key format. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in dropbear version...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openvas-libraries-8.0.8-2.fc23

openvas-libraries is the base library for the OpenVAS network security scanner...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: openvas-libraries-8.0.8-2.fc24

openvas-libraries is the base library for the OpenVAS network security scanner...

500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers

Yahoo says it was the victim of state-sponsored hackers who stole information associated with 500 million accounts. Yahoo CISO Bob Lord said the attack happened on the company’s network in late 2014; he did not name the country responsible. “The account information may have included names, email...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: openvas-libraries-8.0.8-2.fc25

openvas-libraries is the base library for the OpenVAS network security scanner...

Fedora 23 : xen (2016-1c3374bcb9)

x86: Disallow L3 recursive pagetable for 32-bit PV guests XSA-185, CVE-2016-7092 1374470 x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation XSA-186, CVE-2016-7093 1374471 x86 HVM: Overflow of shctxt-segreg XSA-187, CVE-2016-7094 1374473 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Fedora 23 : wordpress (2016-91bfe9ddb8)

See upstream announcements : - WordPress 4.6 Pepper - WordPress 4.6.1 Security and Maintenance Release Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as muc...

Debian DLA-631-1 : unadf security update

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in unadf, a tool to extract files from an Amiga Disk File dump .adf : - CVE-2016-1243: stack-based buffer overflow caused by blindly trusting on pathname lengths of archived files. Stack allocated buffer sysbuf was filled with sprintf without...