Critical PHP Bug Security Notice and Patch

Earlier this week, a PHP Security Notice was made due to a critical bug in PHP that could cause PHP to fail should a value of 2.2250738585072011e-308 be set to a PHP value. More information can be found here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53632...

CVE-2010-3008

HP Data Protector Express/Express SSE on Windows is affected by a stack buffer overflow in the DtbClsLogin path (dpwindtb.dll) that copies user input into a stack buffer via Utf8Cpy, leading to local privilege escalation or denial of service. Affected versions are 3.x before build 56936 and 4.x b...

CVE-2002-1571

CVE-2002-1571 affects the Linux 2.4 kernel pre-2.4.19. The root cause is that the fninit instruction is assumed to clear all registers, which can cause an information leak on processors that do not clear all relevant SSE registers. The practical impact is potential leakage of information (partial...

CVE-2004-0163

Sygate Secure Enterprise (SSE) 3.5MR3 and earlier are affected by a replay-based DoS vulnerability. The issue stems from using a static encryption key for HTTP exchanges between SSE servers and SSA clients and the absence of replay protection, allowing an attacker to capture a valid session and r...

Linux Kernel <= 2.4.21 MXCSR Local DOS Exploitation

As I mentioned in my previous post to the list, I've been looking into x87 FPU stuff lately. While I was tinkering I ran into the MXCSR register, which reminded me of an old RedHat advisory with a vague description of a kernel vuln relating to the register. I don't recall anyone ever discussing...