Tor Project Releases Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2

The non-profit organization behind TOR – the largest online anonymity network that allows people to hide their real identity online – has launched an early alpha version of Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2. Yes, the Tor Project is working on a sandboxed version of the Tor Browser that would isolate th...

openSUSE Security Update : libarchive (openSUSE-2016-1405)

This update for libarchive fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-8687: Buffer overflow when printing a filename bsc1005070. - CVE-2016-8689: Heap overflow when reading corrupted 7Zip files bsc1005072. - CVE-2016-8688: Use after free because of incorrect calculation i...

Mozilla Firefox Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-11414)

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in versions of Mozilla Firefox prior to 50 on 64-bit Windows-based platforms, which stems from a failure of the 64-bit NPAPI plug-in to enable sandboxin...

Hack Crashes Linux in Just 48 Characters of Code

With just a mere 48 characters of code, Linux admin and SSLMate founder Andrew Ayer has figured out how to crash major Linux distributions by locally exploiting a flaw in systemd. Ayer said the following command, when run as any user, will crash systemd: NOTIFYSOCKET=/run/systemd/notify...

Microsoft Edge Adds App Guard Browser Security

Microsoft is bringing virtualization to its Edge browser with a security tool called Windows Defender Application Guard. The technology, announced this week at Microsoft’s 2016 Ignite conference in Atlanta, takes a virtualization-based approach to isolating browser-based attacks from the internet...

Debian DSA-3677-1 : libarchive - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library, which may lead to denial of service memory consumption and application crash, bypass of sandboxing restrictions and overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from an archive, or the executio...

Updated libarchive packages fix security vulnerability

The updated packages fix several security vulnerabilities: A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3677-1] libarchive security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3677-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso September 25, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3677-1 (libarchive - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libarchive, a multi-format archive and compression library, which may lead to denial of service memory consumption and application crash, bypass of sandboxing restrictions and overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from an archive, or the executio...

DSA-3677-1 libarchive - security update

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Code injection

The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file...

CVE-2016-5418

The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file...

CVE-2016-5418

The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file...

CVE-2016-5418

CVE-2016-5418 affects libarchive up to and including version 3.2.0, where sandboxing of archives with hardlinks mishandles entries of non-zero data size. This can allow a remote attacker to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive, as described in multiple advisories. Public reports referen...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5418

The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file...

CVE-2016-5418

The sandboxing code in libarchive 3.2.0 and earlier mishandles hardlink archive entries of non-zero data size, which might allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted archive file...

libarchive security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:1850 An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libarchive on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20160912)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive...

libarchive: Archive Entry with type 1 (hardlink), but has a non-zero data size file overwrite

A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive...

libarchive: Archive Entry with type 1 (hardlink), but has a non-zero data size file overwrite

A flaw was found in the way libarchive handled hardlink archive entries of non-zero size. Combined with flaws in libarchive's file system sandboxing, this issue could cause an application using libarchive to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary data from the archive...