Home Hacking Made Simple

SEATTLE–Like most security researchers, David Jacoby is naturally curious about how things work, and whether they can be made to do things they weren’t meant to do. Sitting at home in Sweden a few months ago, he looked at all of the Web-enabled devices in his house–TV, game console, network stora...

USN-2360-2 thunderbird vulnerabilities

USN-2360-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding updates for Thunderbird. Original advisory details: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA certificates...

USN-2361-1: NSS vulnerability

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA certificates...

USN-2361-1 nss vulnerability

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and others discovered that NSS incorrectly handled parsing ASN.1 values. An attacker could use this issue to forge RSA certificates...

Kali Linux "NetHunter" — Turn Your Android Device into Hacking Weapons

The developers of one of the most advance open source operating system for penetration testing, 'KALI Linux' have announced yesterday the release of a new Kali project, known as NetHunter, that runs on a Google Nexus device. Kali Linux is an open source Debian-based operating system for penetrati...

NSS: Signature forgery attack

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, security researcher at Inria Paris in team Prosecco, reported an issue in Network Security Services NSS libraries affecting all versions. He discovered that NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack previously published by Daniel Bleichenbacher. This is...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-2355-1)

Chris Evans reported an flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of iso9660 compact disk filesystem images. An attacker who can mount a custom iso9660 image either via a CD/DVD drive or a loopback mount could cause a denial of service system crash or reboot. CVE-2014-5471 Chris Evans reported an flaw ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1568

Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.16.2.1, 3.16.x before 3.16.5, and 3.17.x before 3.17.1, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 32.0.3, Mozilla Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.8.1 and 31.x before 31.1.1, Mozilla Thunderbird before 24.8.1 and 31.x before 31.1.2, Mozilla SeaMonkey before 2.29.1...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2354-1)

Chris Evans reported an flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of iso9660 compact disk filesystem images. An attacker who can mount a custom iso9660 image either via a CD/DVD drive or a loopback mount could cause a denial of service system crash or reboot. CVE-2014-5471 Chris Evans reported an flaw ...

RSA Signature Forgery in NSS — Mozilla

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, security researcher at Inria Paris in team Prosecco, reported an issue in Network Security Services NSS libraries affecting all versions. He discovered that NSS is vulnerable to a variant of a signature forgery attack previously published by Daniel Bleichenbacher. This is...

Fedora 21 : xerces-j2-2.11.0-22.fc21 (2014-10617)

Security fix for CVE-2013-4002 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Fedora 21 : procmail-3.22-36.fc21 (2014-10142)

This is an update fixing CVE-2014-3618. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Fedora 21 : kernel-3.16.2-301.fc21 (2014-10693)

Fix CVE-2014-3631 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...

Researcher Discloses Wi-Fi Thermostat Vulnerabilities

Heatmiser, a U.K.-based manufacturer of digital thermostats, is contacting its customers today about a series of security issues that could expose a Wi-Fi-connected version of its product to takeover. Andrew Tierney, a “reverse-engineer by night,” whose specialty is digging up bugs in embedded...

USN-2350-1 nss update

The NSS package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the NSS package to version 3.17 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle...

USN-2350-1: NSS update

The NSS package contained outdated CA certificates. This update refreshes the NSS package to version 3.17 which includes the latest CA certificate bundle...

PT-2014-1379

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Network Security Services NSS versions prior to 3.16.2.1 Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 32.0.3 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 24.8.1 and 31.x prior to 31.1.1 Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 24.8.1 and 31.x prior to 31.1...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2319-3)

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...

nss: false start PR_Recv information disclosure security issue

A flaw was found in the way TLS False Start was implemented in NSS. An attacker could use this flaw to potentially return unencrypted information from the server...

nss: TOCTOU, potential use-after-free in libssl's session ticket processing (MFSA 2014-12)

A race condition was found in the way NSS implemented session ticket handling as specified by RFC 5077. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application using NSS or, in rare cases, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application...