Second Crypto Bug in Networking Library Could Affect 25,000 Apps

A few weeks after the developers of the AFNetworking library that’s popular among iOS and OS X app developers patched a serious bug in the library that enabled man-in-the-middle attacks, another, similar flaw has surfaced. The new vulnerability is related to how the AFNetworking library handles...

Critical SSL Vulnerability Leaves 25,000 iOS Apps Vulnerable to Hackers

A critical vulnerability resides in AFNetworking could allow an attacker to cripple the HTTPS protection of 25,000 iOS apps available in Apple's App Store via man-in-the-middle MITM attacks. AFNetworking is a popular open-source code library that lets developers drop networking capabilities into...

MGASA-2015-0165 Updated lftp packages fix CVE-2014-0139

Updated lftp packages fix security vulnerability: lftp incorrectly validates wildcard SSL certificates containing literal IP addresses, so under certain conditions, it would allow and use a wildcard match specified in the CN field, allowing a malicious server to participate in a MITM attack or ju...

Renewed Attention on Android Apps Failing SSL Validation

SAN FRANCISCO – Android developers whose apps fail to validate SSL certificates are on notice; not only are researchers scanning apps making insecure connections, but so is Google. And the hammer may fall soon. Will Dormann, a researcher with CERT at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie...

iOS, OS X Library AFNetwork Patches MiTM Vulnerability

Until yesterday, a popular networking library for iOS and OS X used in apps such as Pinterest and Simple was susceptible to SSL man-in-the-middle MiTM attacks. The developer behind the framework AFNetworking on Thursday pushed a fix for the issue, a logic flaw. The flaw had lingered in the wild f...

Komodia Certificate Manipulation Enabled Man-In-The-Middle Attacks

The shoddy state of SSL certificate validation on the Internet again floated to the surface, this time by the Superfish mess, which continues to get worse. The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wednesday released a report based on data scoured from the Decentralized SSL Observatory which it...

Kaseya BYOD Gateway 7.0.2 SSL Certificate Validation / Redirection

, , . '.' '. ', . , '. , .', , / / / \ \ ==/ /\ \ / / \ / \ / / | \ \ Y Y \ / /| / \ /||| / / /.-. / /:wq x.0 '=.|w|.=' =''"''=. presents.. Kaseya BYOD Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities Affected Versions: Kaseya BYOD Gateway 7.0.2 PDF:...

MGASA-2014-0548 Updated smack packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated smack packages fix security vulnerabilities: The ServerTrustManager component in the Ignite Realtime Smack XMPP API before 4.0.0-rc1 does not verify basicConstraints and nameConstraints in X.509 certificate chains from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers...

Prey Anti-Theft for Android missing SSL certificate validation [STIC-2014-0731]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fundacion Dr. Manuel Sadosky - Programa STIC Advisory www.fundacionsadosky.org.ar Prey Anti-Theft for Android missing SSL certificate validation 1. Advisory Information Title: Prey Anti-Theft for Android missing SSL certificate validation Advisory ID:...

Missing SSL certificate validation in MercadoLibre app for Android [STIC-2014-0211]

Fundacion Dr. Manuel Sadosky - Programa STIC Advisory www.fundacionsadosky.org.ar Missing SSL certificate validation in MercadoLibre app for Android 1. Advisory Information Title: Missing SSL cert validation in MercadoLibre app for Android Advisory ID: STIC-2014-0211 Advisory URL:...

PicsArt Photo Studio For Android Insecure Management Vulnerability

PicsArt Photo Studio for Android fails to properly validate SSL certificates from the server. Insecure management of login credentials in PicsArt Photo Studio for Android 1. Advisory Information Title: Insecure management of login credentials in PicsArt Photo Studio for Android Advisory ID:...

[slackware-security] pidgin (SSA:2014-296-02)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 slackware-security pidgin SSA:2014-296-02 New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+...

[slackware-security] pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: pidgin-2.10.10-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes several security issues: Insufficient SSL certificate...

CVE-2014-7336

The Taking Your Company Public aka biz.app4mobile.app016e43d03ee54d1facd6c9532a00e724.app application 1.28.44.441 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-7367

The TuS 1947 Radis aka com.tus1947radis application 1.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-7452

The Shaklee Product Catalog aka com.wProductCatalog application 2.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-7107

The Human Factor aka com.magzter.thehumanfactor application 3.01 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Twin Lin aka com.twinlin.twmo application 5 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-6833

The CVE-2014-6833 entry affects the AuctionTrac Dealer Android app (package com.adesa.dealer.phone) version 2.0.3. The root cause is that the app does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, enabling man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a craft...

[ MDVSA-2014:185 ] libgadu

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:185 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : libgadu Date : September 24, 2014 Affected: Business Server 1.0 Problem Description: Updated libgadu packages fix security vulnerability: Libgadu...