ALPINE-CVE-2017-14492

Heap-based buffer overflow in dnsmasq before 2.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code via a crafted IPv6 router advertisement request...

USN-3430-1 dnsmasq vulnerabilities

Felix Wilhelm, Fermin J. Serna, Gabriel Campana and Kevin Hamacher discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly handled DNS requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Dnsmasq to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-14491 Felix Wilhelm, Fermin...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14492

Heap-based buffer overflow in dnsmasq before 2.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash or execute arbitrary code via a crafted IPv6 router advertisement request...

Drive-by mining and ads: The Wild Wild West

There seems to be a trend lately for publishers to monetize their traffic by having their visitors mine for cryptocurrencies while on their site. The idea is that you are accessing content for free and in exchange, your computer its CPU in particular will be used for mining purposes. The Pirate B...

Over 500 Android Apps On Google Play Store Found Spying On 100 Million Users

Over 500 different Android apps that have been downloaded more than 100 million times from the official Google Play Store found to be infected with a malicious ad library that secretly distributes spyware to users and can perform dangerous operations. Since 90 per cent of Android apps is free to...

CVE-2017-2303

On Juniper Networks products or platforms running Junos OS 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D50, 12.1X47 prior to 12.1X47-D40, 12.3 prior to 12.3R13, 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D30, 13.2X51 prior to 13.2X51-D40, 13.3 prior to 13.3R10, 14.1 prior to 14.1R8, 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D35, 14.1X55 prior to...

Juniper Networks Junos OS PFE DoS Vulnerabilities

Junos OS is prone to a denial of service vulnerability while handling IPv6 ND advertisements. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG 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 C...

Easter Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

As the Easter holiday approaches, US-CERT reminds users to stay aware of holiday scams and cyber campaigns, which may include: unsolicited shipping notifications that may actually be scams by attackers to solicit personal information phishing scams, electronic greeting cards that may contain...

Quagga: OSPFD Potential remote code exec (stack based buffer overflow)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Quagga OSPFD daemon handled LSA link-state advertisement packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the ospfd daemon resulting in denial of service...

Websites Can Now Track You Online Across Multiple Web Browsers

You might be aware of websites, banks, retailers, and advertisers tracking your online activities using different Web "fingerprinting" techniques even in incognito/private mode, but now sites can track you anywhere online — even if you switch browsers. A team of researchers has recently developed...

Juniper Networks Junos OS RPD DoS Vulnerability

Junos OS is prone to a denial of service vulnerability in RPD while processing RIP advertisements. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Hacking Millions with Just an Image — Recipe: Pixels, Ads & Exploit Kit

If you have visited any popular mainstream website over the past two months, your computer may have been infected — Thanks to a new exploit kit discovered by security researchers. Researchers from antivirus provider ESET released a report on Tuesday stating that they have discovered an exploit ki...

USN-3110-1: Quagga vulnerability

David Lamparter discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain IPv6 router advertisements. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

USN-3110-1 quagga vulnerability

David Lamparter discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain IPv6 router advertisements. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

libndp security update

1.2-6 - libndp: fix hop limit validation CVE-2016-3698 1.2-5 - libndp: validate the IPv6 hop limit CVE-2016-3698 - libndb: reject redirect and router advertisements from non-link-local CVE-2016-3698...

Fast Golang DNS Proxy: grimd

Fast golang dns proxy that can run anywhere, built to black-hole internet advertisements and malware servers Incoming requests spawn a goroutine and are served concurrently, and the block cache resides in-memory to allow for rapid lookups, allowing grimd to serve thousands of queries at once whil...

kernel: MTU value is not validated in IPv6 stack causing packet loss

It was found that the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack did not properly validate the value of the MTU variable when it was set. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to disrupt a target system's networking packet loss by setting an invalid MTU value, for example, via a NetworkManager...

RedHat Update for NetworkManager RHSA-2015:2315-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG 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...

kernel: MTU value is not validated in IPv6 stack causing packet loss

It was found that the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack did not properly validate the value of the MTU variable when it was set. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to disrupt a target system's networking packet loss by setting an invalid MTU value, for example, via a NetworkManager...

NetworkManager: denial of service (DoS) attack against IPv6 network stacks due to improper handling of Router Advertisements

A flaw was found in the way NetworkManager handled router advertisements. An unprivileged user on a local network could use IPv6 Neighbor Discovery ICMP to broadcast a non-route with a low hop limit, causing machines to lower the hop limit on existing IPv6 routes. If this limit is small enough,...