Cryptographers Aim to Find New Password Hashing Algorithm

Passwords are the keys to our online identities, and as a result, they’re also near the top of the target list for attackers. There have been countless breaches in the last few years in which unencrypted passwords have been stolen from a database and leaked online, and security experts often shak...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: openldap security and bug fix update

Updated openldap packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120625)

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php53 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120627)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was discovered that the PHP XSL extension did not restrict the file writing capability of libxslt. A remote attacker could use this flaw to create or overwrite an arbitrary file that is writable by the user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql and postgresql84 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120625)

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed...

CentOS Update for postgresql CESA-2012:1036 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for postgresql84 CESA-2012:1037 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

CentOS Update for postgresql CESA-2012:1037 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

CentOS 6 : php (CESA-2012:1046)

Updated php packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Medium: postgresql8

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed contained the 0x80 byte value, the remainder of the string w...

RedHat Update for postgresql and postgresql84 RHSA-2012:1037-01

Check for the Version of postgresql and postgresql84 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for postgresql and postgresql84 RHSA-2012:1037-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can...

RedHat Update for postgresql RHSA-2012:1036-01

Check for the Version of postgresql OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for postgresql RHSA-2012:1036-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

postgresql, postgresql84 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1037 Updated postgresql84 and postgresql packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: postgresql and postgresql84 security update

Updated postgresql84 and postgresql packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which...

CVE-2012-2565

Bloxx Web Filtering before 5.0.14 does not use a salt during calculation of a password hash, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords via a rainbow-table approach...

SuSE 10 Security Update : glibc (ZYPP Patch Number 7663)

The implementation of the blowfish based password hashing method had a bug affecting passwords that contain 8bit characters e.g. umlauts. Affected passwords are potentially faster to crack via brute-force methods. CVE-2011-2483 SUSE's crypt implementation supports the blowfish password hashing...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 4944)

The implementation of the blowfish based password hashing method had a bug affecting passwords that contain 8bit characters e.g. umlauts. Affected passwords are potentially faster to crack via brute-force methods. CVE-2011-2483 SUSE's crypt implementation supports the blowfish password hashing...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 4944) (deprecated)

The implementation of the blowfish based password hashing method had a bug affecting passwords that contain 8bit characters e.g. umlauts. Affected passwords are potentially faster to crack via brute-force methods. CVE-2011-2483 SUSE's crypt implementation supports the blowfish password hashing...

SuSE 10 Security Update : glibc (ZYPP Patch Number 7663) (deprecated)

The implementation of the blowfish based password hashing method had a bug affecting passwords that contain 8bit characters e.g. umlauts. Affected passwords are potentially faster to crack via brute-force methods. CVE-2011-2483 SUSE's crypt implementation supports the blowfish password hashing...

Debian DSA-2340-1 : postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4, postgresql-9.0 - weak password hashing

magnum discovered that the blowfish password hashing used amongst others in PostgreSQL contained a weakness that would give passwords with 8 bit characters the same hash as weaker equivalents. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...