CVE-2015-7358

CVE-2015-7358 affects TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt (before 1.15), and CipherShed; the IsDriveLetterAvailable check in the Windows driver (Driver/Ntdriver.c) fails to validate drive-letter symbolic links, enabling a local attacker to remap a system drive and gain full privileges via the GLOBAL?? entry...

CVE-2015-7358

The IsDriveLetterAvailable method in Driver/Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, does not properly validate drive letter symbolic links, which allows local users to mount an encrypted volume over an existing drive letter and gain privileges...

CVE-2015-7359

The 1 IsVolumeAccessibleByCurrentUser and 2 MountDevice methods in Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, do not check the impersonation level of impersonation tokens, which allows local users to impersonate a user at SecurityIdentify level an...

CVE-2016-1281

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer for TrueCrypt 7.2 and 7.1a, VeraCrypt before 1.17-BETA, and possibly other products allows local users to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the "application...

CVE-2016-1281

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer for TrueCrypt 7.2 and 7.1a, VeraCrypt before 1.17-BETA, and possibly other products allows local users to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the "application...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer for TrueCrypt 7.2 and 7.1a, VeraCrypt before 1.17-BETA, and possibly other products allows local users to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the "application...

CVE-2016-1281

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer for TrueCrypt 7.2 and 7.1a, VeraCrypt before 1.17-BETA, and possibly other products allows local users to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the "application...

CVE-2016-1281

The CVE-2016-1281 entry describes an untrusted search path/DLL hijacking vulnerability in installers for TrueCrypt 7.2 and 7.1a , and VeraCrypt before 1.17-BETA (and possibly other products). The issue allows local users to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges by placing a Trojan ...

CVE-2016-1281: Untrusted Search Path

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer for TrueCrypt 7.2 and 7.1a, VeraCrypt before 1.17-BETA, and possibly other products allows local users to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the "application...

Secure Anti Forensic Anonymous Operating System: kodachi

Secure Anti Forensic Anonymous Operating System Linux Kodachi operating system is based on Debian 8.6 it will provide you with a secure, anti forensic, and anonymous operating system considering all features that a person who is concerned about privacy would need to have in order to be secure...

OpenVPN to Undergo Cryptographic Audit

The next version of the open-source OpenVPN software will be audited by an well-known cryptographer. It was announced Wednesday that Matthew D. Green, PhD, a cryptographer, computer science professor, and researcher at Johns Hopkins University will carry out an audit of the code currently availab...

Encryption software VeraCrypt audit reports published, discovered multiple high risk vulnerabilities attached report download-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! In DuckDuckGo and VikingVPN funded by QuarksLab recent open-source encryption software VeraCrypt conducted a security audit. The audit found that the 8 high-risk vulnerabilities, and 1 0 more in the lower level of vulnerability. About VeraCrypt VeraCrypt is a very popular disk encryption softwa...

Critical Vulnerabilities Uncovered in VeraCrypt Audit Patched

An audit of open source file and disk encryption package VeraCrypt turned up a number of critical vulnerabilities that have been patched in the month since the assessment was wrapped up. The audit, which began Aug. 16, was funded by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund OSTIF and executed b...

VeraCrypt Audit Reveals Critical Security Flaws — Update Now

After TrueCrypt mysteriously discontinued its service, VeraCrypt became the most popular open source disk encryption software used by activists, journalists, as well as privacy conscious people. First of all, there is no such thing as a perfect, bug-free software. Even the most rigorously tested...

StrongPity APT Covets Secrets of Crypto Users

APT groups covet secrets, and one in particular has chosen to target users intent on protecting theirs. The group is known as StrongPity, and it’s been a characteristic APT outfit using its share of zero days and modular attack tools to infiltrate victims and conduct espionage. This summer,...

VeraCrypt Audit Under Way; Email Mystery Cleared Up

Update To say the VeraCrypt audit, which begins today, got off to an inauspicious start would be an understatement. On Sunday, two weeks after the announcement that the open source file and disk encryption software would be formally scrutinized for security vulnerabilities, executives at one of t...

British Hacker Wins Legal Battle Over Encryption Keys

In Brief Britain's top crime fighting force has failed in a legal attempt to force alleged hacker Lauri Love to hand over his hard disk's encryption keys. In a landmark case, District Judge Nina Tempia said the investigative agency should have used the normal police powers rather than a civil...

British Authorities Order Hacker Lauri Love to hand Over Encryption Keys

The National Crime Agency NCA of United Kingdom is forcing the British citizen, and political hacktivist Lauri Love accused of hacking to hand over encryption keys to equipment seized from his home. Love, 31, is currently fighting extradition to the United States where he faces up to 99 years in...

TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt DLL File Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt are both free, open source disk encryption software. TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt load DLLs contain security vulnerabilities that allow attackers to exploit the vulnerabilities to build malicious files that can be parsed by the user and can execute arbitrary code...

TrueCrypt 7.1a / 7.2 DLL Hijacking

Hi @ll, the executable installers "TrueCrypt Setup 7.1a.exe" and TrueCrypt-7.2.exe load and execute USP10.dll, RichEd20.dll, NTMarta.dll and SRClient.dll from their "application directory". For software downloaded with a web browser the application directory is typically the user's "Downloads"...