GnuPG creates ElGamal keys for signing using insufficient entropy

Overview Gnu Privacy Guard GnuPG is a cryptographic utility used to generate cryptographic keys and perform other cryptographic functions. A vulnerability in the way GnuPG generates ElGamal keys has been discovered. This vulnerability renders ElGamal signing key untrustworthy. Description A...

OS Identification : ICMP

This plugin attempts to identify the Operating System type and version by sending more or less incorrect ICMP requests using the techniques outlined in Ofir Arkin's paper 'ICMP Usage In Scanning'. An attacker may use this to identify the kind of the remote operating system and gain further...

CVE-2003-0724

ssh on HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1B and 5.1A does not properly handle RSA signatures when digital certificates and RSA keys are used, which could allow local and remote attackers to gain privileges...

CVE-2003-0546

up2date 3.0.7 and 3.1.23 does not properly verify RPM GPG signatures, which could allow remote attackers to cause unsigned packages to be installed from the Red Hat Network, if that network is compromised...

CVE-2003-0546

up2date 3.0.7 and 3.1.23 does not properly verify RPM GPG signatures, which could allow remote attackers to cause unsigned packages to be installed from the Red Hat Network, if that network is compromised...

nfs-utils packages replaced

New nfs-utils packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and -current to replace the ones that were issued yesterday. A bug in has been fixed in utils/mountd/auth.c that could cause mountd to crash. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Tue Jul 15 10:42:58 PDT 2003...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: gnupg security update

Updated gnupg packages are now available which correct a bug in the GnuPG key validation functions. The GNU Privacy Guard GnuPG is a utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. When evaluating trust values for the UIDs assigned to a given key, GnuPG versions earlier than 1.2.2...

sendmail 8.12.9 available

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.12.9. It contains a fix for a critical security problem discovered by Michal Zalewski whom we thank for bringing this problem to our attention. Sendmail urges all users to either...

Vulnerability (critical): Digital signature for Adobe Acrobat/Reader plug-in can be forged

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: MD5 Vulnerability critical: Digital signature for Adobe Acrobat/Reader plug-in can be forged March 24, 2003 SUMMARY =============================================================================== Adobe Acrobat Reader supports plug-ins, i.e. additional...

Adobe Acrobat PDF viewers contain flaw when loading and verifying plug-ins

Overview Acrobat plug-ins can be digitally signed to determine whether they should be loaded by Adobe Acrobat Reader at startup. This digital signature mechanism is not cryptographically strong and allows other potentially-malicious plug-in code to pretend to be certified by Adobe and be executed...

Sendmail buffer overflow fixed

The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.1 and -current have been patched to fix a security problem. All sites running sendmail should upgrade. More information on the problem can be found here: http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.8.html Here are the details from the Slackware 8.1 ChangeLog: Mon Mar 3...

sendmail 8.12.8 available

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.12.8. It contains a fix for a critical security problem discovered by Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force; we thank ISS X-Force for bringing this problem to our attention. Sendmail urges al...

PT-2002-2518 · Hewlett Packard · Chaivm Ezloader

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ChaiVM EZloader for HP color LaserJet 4500 and 4550 and HP LaserJet 4100 and 8150 affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to the improper verification of JAR signatures for new services in ChaiVM EZloader. This allow...

Full Disclosure: Windows File Protection Arbitrary Certificate Chain Vulnerability

============================================================================ == SECURITY ALERT Windows File Protection Arbitrary Certificate Chain Vulnerability December 26, 2002 Full Disclosure, [email protected] and others December 24, 2002 Private Disclosure Jason Coombs [email protected]...

Full Disclosure: Windows File Protection Old Security Catalog Vulnerability

============================================================================ == SECURITY ALERT Windows File Protection Old Security Catalog Vulnerability December 26, 2002 Full Disclosure, [email protected] and others August 26, 2002 Private Disclosure, Microsoft Press and others Jason Coombs...

Подмена подписанного документа в ECDSA

Серьёзная ошибка в ECDSA. В матаппарате новейшего американского стандарта ЭЦП известного как ECDSA DSA для эллиптических кривых 1 cтр. 25-30 существует серьёзная ошибка позволяющая выбрать такое значение секретного ключа, чтобы получить одинаковые подписи для разных документов. Это позволяет...

Microsoft Outlook Express 5.56.0 - SMIME Buffer Overflow

Microsoft Outlook Express 5.56.0 - SMIME Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5944/info Microsoft Outlook Express contains an unchecked buffer in the code that generates warning messages when certain error conditions associated with digital signatures are encountered. Executi...

Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5/6.0 - S/MIME Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5944/info Microsoft Outlook Express contains an unchecked buffer in the code that generates warning messages when certain error conditions associated with digital signatures are encountered. Execution of arbitrary code in the security context of the curre...

Protection bypass in snort

By using short packets it's possible to bypass attack signature protection...

CVE-2001-0497

dnskeygen in BIND 8.2.4 and earlier, and dnssec-keygen in BIND 9.1.2 and earlier, set insecure permissions for a HMAC-MD5 shared secret key file used for DNS Transactional Signatures TSIG, which allows attackers to obtain the keys and perform dynamic DNS updates...