FTC Asking DEF CON to Help Catch Robocallers

The United States Federal Trade Commission is sick and tired of illegal robocalling, and it’s hosting a contest this year at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas in an attempt to do something about it. The consumer protection agency’s weariness likely stems from the more than 150,000...

Belkin N150 path traversal vulnerability

Overview Belkin N150 wireless routers contain a path traversal vulnerability. Description CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory 'Path Traversal' - CVE-2014-2962Belkin N150 wireless router firmware versions 1.00.07 and earlier contain a path traversal vulnerability...

Mozilla: Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2014-49)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6, and Thunderbird before 24.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption via unspecified vectors...

Mozilla: Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2014-49)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6, and Thunderbird before 24.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption via unspecified vectors...

libtasn1: multiple boundary check issues

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the DER decoder in GNU Libtasn1 before 3.6, as used in GnuTLS, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read via crafted ASN.1 data...

CVE-2014-3917

CVE-2014-3917 affects the Linux kernel up to 3.14.5, specifically kernel/auditsc.c when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled with certain syscall rules. Local users can obtain sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or trigger a denial of service (OOPS) by using a large syscall number. Exploitat...

CVE-2014-3917

kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5, when CONFIGAUDITSYSCALL is enabled with certain syscall rules, allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or cause a denial of service OOPS via a large value of a syscall number...

Linksys E4200 Vulnerability Enables Authentication Bypass

The Lynksys E4200 V2 dual band router contains a vulnerability that an attacker could exploit, bypassing the Web panel authentication mechanism and gaining administrative privileges on affected devices. Linksys has provided a firmware update that resolves the vulnerability. However, as is nearly...

CVE-2014-3917

kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5, when CONFIGAUDITSYSCALL is enabled with certain syscall rules, allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or cause a denial of service OOPS via a large value of a syscall number...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: libtasn1-3.6-1.fc20

A library that provides Abstract Syntax Notation One ASN.1, as specified by the X.680 ITU-T recommendation parsing and structures management, and Distinguished Encoding Rules DER, as per X.690 encoding and decoding func tions...

Factlink: Password Complexity very low.

There is only one rule which you have set that minimum characters should be 6. But you need to set robust rule for password quality. Because I was able to set my password 123456 which is really common and anyone can hack it. Recommendation - Provide robust rules including upper lower letters,...

XML injection vulnerability hazard warning-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability description: the Extensible Markup Language Extensible Markup Language, XML for marking an electronic file so that it has a structural markup language that can be used to tag data definition data type is a allows the user to Own the markup language for the definition of the source...

Medium: mod24_security

Issue Overview: apache2/modsecurity.c in ModSecurity before 2.7.6 allows remote attackers to bypass rules by using chunked transfer coding with a capitalized Chunked value in the Transfer-Encoding HTTP header. Affected Packages: mod24security Issue Correction: Run yum update mod24security or yum...

FreeBSD -- devfs rules not applied by default for jails

Problem Description: The default devfs rulesets are not loaded on boot, even when jails are used. Device nodes will be created in the jail with their normal default access permissions, while most of them should be hidden and inaccessible. Impact: Jailed processes can get access to restricted...

Burp Suite Professional v1.6 - The leading toolkit for web application security testing

Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application’s attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security...

CVE-2013-5705

apache2/modsecurity.c in ModSecurity before 2.7.6 allows remote attackers to bypass rules by using chunked transfer coding with a capitalized Chunked value in the Transfer-Encoding HTTP header...

CVE-2013-5705

Affected software: ModSecurity (Apache module) before 2.7.6. Root cause: flawed handling of chunked Transfer-Encoding with a capitalized Chunked value in the HTTP header. Impact: remote attackers can bypass mod_security rules. Remediation: upgrade to ModSecurity 2.7.6 or newer (as cited by multip...

BlackBerry, Cisco Products Vulnerable to OpenSSL Bug

Vendors are continuing to check their products for potential effects from the OpenSSL heartbleed vulnerability, and both Cisco and BlackBerry have found that a variety of their products contain a vulnerable version of the software. BlackBerry on Thursday said that several of its software products...

(Pwn2Own) Apple Safari Heap Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Safari. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of CSS...

MacOSX/XNU HFS Multiple Vulnerabilities

MacOSX/XNU HFS Multiple Vulnerabilities Maksymilian Arciemowicz http://cxsecurity.com/ http://cifrex.org/ =================== On November 8th, I've reported vulnerability in hard links for HFS+ CVE-2013-6799 http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2013110059 The HFS+ file system does not apply strict...