CVE-2018-9567

On Pixel devices there is a bug causing verified boot to show the same certificate fingerprint despite using different signing keys. This may lead to local escalation of privilege if people are relying on those fingerprints to determine what version of the OS the device is running, with System...

CVE-2018-15796

Cloud Foundry Bits Service Release, versions prior to 2.14.0, uses an insecure hashing algorithm to sign URLs. A remote malicious user may obtain a signed URL and extract the signing key, allowing them complete read and write access to the the Bits Service storage...

CVE-2015-1878: Undefined Security Weakness

Thales nShield Connect hardware models 500, 1500, 6000, 500+, 1500+, and 6000+ before 11.72 allows physically proximate attackers to sign arbitrary data with previously loaded signing keys, extract the device identification key KNETI and impersonate the nShield Connect device on a network, affect...

OpenJDK: MD5 allowed for jar verification (Security, 8171121)

It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK did not allow users to restrict the set of algorithms allowed for Jar integrity verification. This flaw could allow an attacker to modify content of the Jar file that used weak signing key or hash algorithm...

OpenJDK: missing algorithm restrictions for jar verification (Libraries, 8155973)

It was discovered that the Libraries component of OpenJDK did not restrict the set of algorithms used for JAR integrity verification. This flaw could allow an attacker to modify content of the JAR file that used weak signing key or hash algorithm...

OpenJDK: missing algorithm restrictions for jar verification (Libraries, 8155973)

It was discovered that the Libraries component of OpenJDK did not restrict the set of algorithms used for JAR integrity verification. This flaw could allow an attacker to modify content of the JAR file that used weak signing key or hash algorithm...

Skyliner: DNSSEC misconfiguration

First of all I will start with some theory. DNS is a system to translate a domain name to an ip address. Normally a computer automatically trust a DNS server and connects to the IP provided by the DNS server. This is prone to security issues because a malicious wifi network, an attacker on your...

'The Hacker News' Weekly Roundup — 14 Most Popular Stories

To make the last week’s top cyber security threats and challenges available to you in one shot, we are once again here with our weekly round up. Last week, we came across lots of cyber security threats like the XCodeGhost malware in Apple’s App Store and lockscreen bypass bug in iOS 9 and iOS 9.0...

Design/Logic Flaw

OpenStack Heat Templates heat-templates, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, uses an HTTP connection to download 1 packages and 2 signing keys from Yum repositories, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to prevent updates via unspecified vectors...

openstack-heat-templates: use of HTTP to download signing keys/code

OpenStack Heat Templates heat-templates, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, uses an HTTP connection to download 1 packages and 2 signing keys from Yum repositories, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to prevent updates via unspecified vectors...

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Verifiers may inappropriately convey message trust

US-CERT reports: DomainKeys Identified Mail DKIM Verifiers may inappropriately convey message trust when messages are signed using test or small bit signing keys...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200312-05 (GnuPG)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200312-05. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200312-05 (GnuPG)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200312-05. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora 9 : PackageKit-0.2.5-1.fc9 / fedora-release-9-5.transition / gnome-packagekit-0.2.5-2.fc9 (2008-7748)

This fedora-release update introduces a new set of Fedora Updates and Updates Testing repo definitions. These new definitions point to new URLS for our update content signed with a new key. This update also provides Fedora 8 and 9's new package signing keys. This update is a transitional update t...

Fedora 8 : fedora-release-8-6.transition (2008-7747)

This fedora-release update introduces a new set of Fedora Updates and Updates Testing repo definitions. These new definitions point to new URLS for our update content signed with a new key. This update also provides Fedora 8 and 9's new package signing keys. This update is a transitional update t...

CVE-2006-5303

Secure Computing SafeWord RemoteAccess 2.1 allows local users to obtain the UserCenter webportal password, database encryption keys, and signing keys by reading 1 base-64 encoded data in SERVERS\Web\Tomcat\usercenter\WEB-INF\login.conf and 2 plaintext data in SERVERS\Shared\signers.cfg. NOTE: the...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2003:109)

A severe vulnerability was discovered in GnuPG by Phong Nguyen relating to ElGamal sign+encrypt keys. From Werner Koch's email message : 'Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead to a...

SuSE-SA:2003:048: gpg

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SuSE-SA:2003:048 gpg. The gnupg the SUSE package is named gpg package is the most widely used software for cryptographic encryption/decryption of data. Two independent errors have been found in gpg GnuPG packages as shipped with SUSE products:...

GnuPG: ElGamal signing keys compromised and format string vulnerability

Background GnuPG is a popular open source signing and encryption tool. Description Two flaws have been found in GnuPG 1.2.3. First, ElGamal signing keys can be compromised. These keys are not commonly used, but this is "a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all...

[Full-Disclosure] GnuPG's ElGamal signing keys compromised

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 GnuPG's ElGamal signing keys compromised ========================================== Summary ======= Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead ...