The vulnerability of the ASN.1 BER analyzer of the computer network traffic analysis tool Wireshark allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ASN.1 BER analyzer in Wireshark for analyzing computer network traffic involves an operation that goes beyond the acceptable limits of the data buffer. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service interruptions...

No, RSA Is Not Broken

I have been seeing this paper by cryptographer Peter Schnorr making the rounds: "Fast Factoring Integers by SVP Algorithms." It describes a new factoring method, and its abstract ends with the provocative sentence: "This destroys the RSA cryptosystem." It does not. At best, its an improvement in...

PT-2021-7377 · Python +10 · Urllib +10

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: urllib affected versions not specified Description: A flaw in the AbstractBasicAuthHandler class of urllib allows an attacker controlling a malicious HTTP server to trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDOS during an authentication...

[ASA-202012-8] containerd: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202012-8 ========================================= Severity: High Date : 2020-12-05 CVE-ID : CVE-2020-15257 Package : containerd Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1309 Summary ======= The package containerd before...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15257

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime and is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. In containerd before versions 1.3.9 and 1.4.3, the containerd-shim API is improperly exposed to host network containers. Access controls for the shim’s API socket verified that the connecting...

Code injection

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime and is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. In containerd before versions 1.3.9 and 1.4.3, the containerd-shim API is improperly exposed to host network containers. Access controls for the shim’s API socket verified that the connecting...

binutils: denial of service via crafted ELF file

findabstractinstance in dwarf2.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite recursion and application crash via a crafted ELF file...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: libuv-1.40.0-1.fc33

libuv is a new platform layer for Node. Its purpose is to abstract IOCP on Windows and libev on Unix systems. We intend to eventually contain all plat form differences in this library...

Registries Considered Harmful

Cryptographic protocols and specifications often come with registries that map numeric or string identifiers to algorithms or suites. Something like this. 1 RSA-PSS-SHA256 2 RSA-PSS-SHA512 3 ECDSA-P256-SHA256 4 ECDSA-P521-SHA512 5 Ed25519 ... Youll find them everywhere. TLS, X.509, SSH, PGP, you...

jenkins-script-security-plugin: sandbox protection bypass during script compilation phase by applying AST transforming annotations

Sandbox protection in Jenkins Script Security Plugin 1.69 and earlier could be circumvented during the script compilation phase by applying AST transforming annotations to imports or by using them inside of other annotations...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

lvm2-cluster is vulnerable to denial of service. It was discovered that the cluster logical volume manager daemon clvmd did not verify the credentials of clients connecting to its control UNIX abstract socket, allowing local, unprivileged users to send control commands that were intended to only ...

perl-Convert-ASN1 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Perl is a general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic cross-platform programming language from the Perl community. A security vulnerability exists in perl-Convert-ASN1 0.27 and earlier versions, which stems from the program's unsafe decoding of user input. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerabilit...

WordPress Abstract Submission plugin <= 0.6 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability

Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion LFI vulnerability discovered by Random Robbie in WordPress Abstract Submission plugin versions = 0.6. Solution Plugin closed. Deactivate and delete...

PT-2022-5291 · Python +9 · Python +9

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Python versions 3.9.x through 3.9.15 Python versions 3.10.x through 3.10.8 Description: The issue is related to the Python multiprocessing library when used with the forkserver start method on Linux, allowing pickles to be deserialized from a...

The vulnerability of the ASN.1 component of the Bouncy Castle Crypto library, which involves the allocation of unlimited memory, allows a attacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ASN.1 component in the Bouncy Castle Crypto library is related to the provision of unlimited memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a service failure...

PT-2020-15317 · Jenkins · Jenkins Script Security Plugin +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Jenkins Script Security Plugin versions 1.69 and earlier Description: The issue allows sandbox protection to be circumvented during the script compilation phase. This can be achieved by applying AST transforming annotations to imports or by...

PT-2019-15802 · Python +1 · Typed Ast +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: typed ast versions 1.3.0 through 1.3.1 Description: The issue is related to an out-of-bounds read in the ast for arguments function. An attacker who can cause a Python interpreter to parse Python source code, but not necessarily execute it, m...

FIDL: FLARE’s IDA Decompiler Library

IDA Pro and the Hex Rays decompiler are a core part of any toolkit for reverse engineering and vulnerability research. In a previous blog post we discussed how the Hex-Rays API can be used to solve small, well-defined problems commonly seen as part of malware analysis. Having access to a...

wolfSSL buffer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2019-41425)

wolfSSL formerly known as CyaSSL is the United States wolfSSL company for embedded systems developers to use a small, portable embedded SSL programming library. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the DecodedCert structure of GetName in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c file in wolfSSL versions 4.1.0...

LibSass heap buffer overread vulnerability (CNVD-2019-40159)

LibSass is a C/C++ implementation of the Sass compiler. A heap buffer over-read vulnerability exists in Sass::weaveParents in astselweave.cpp in LibSass versions prior to 3.6.3. No details of the vulnerability are provided at this time...