Maligno v2.0 - Metasploit Payload Server

Maligno is an open source penetration testing tool written in Python that serves Metasploit payloads. It generates shellcode with msfvenom and transmits it over HTTP or HTTPS. The shellcode is encrypted with AES and encoded prior to transmission. Maligno also comes with a client tool, which...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AFALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salgname field, as demonstrated by the vfataes expression, a different vulnerability than...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2513-1)

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...

CloudFlare Deploys ChaCha20-Poly1305 Encryption Across Sites

After rolling out free SSL for its users last fall, CloudFlare has deployed a new level of encryption on its service that hardens and speeds up the user experience, especially when accessing domains via mobile browsers. The form of encryption, a relatively new transport layer cipher suite known a...

TrueCrypt Audit Cryptanalysis Handed Off to NCC Group

The stagnant TrueCrypt audit stirred to life in the last 24 hours with the announcement that the second phase of the audit, tasked with examining the cryptography behind the open source disk encryption software, will begin shortly. NCC Group’s Cryptography Services has been contracted to do the...

Oracle-Database-Authentication

Oracle Database is prone to a remote security-bypass vulnerability that affects the authentication protocol. An attacker can exploit this issue to bypass the authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the database. This vulnerability affects Oracle Database 11g Release 1 and 11g Relea...

CVE-2014-9644

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AFALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salgname field, as demonstrated by the vfataes expression, a different vulnerability than...

CoinVault Ransomware Betting on Hope with Free File Decrypt

UPDATE: A prior version of this story incorrectly defined VSS as vulnerability scanning systems when in fact it refers to volume shadow copy service, which is a Windows automatic data backup and recovery mechanism. Thanks to commenter Rudy for pointing this out. The courteous CoinVault ransomware...

[CVE-2 0 1 4-3 1 0 0]Android KeyStore stack overflow vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

CVE-2 0 1 4-3 1 0 0 is Android platform KeyStore to a stack overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability is the last 9 month by IBM of the two engineers found and reported to Google, in year 6, on 2 3, is disclosed. After the public, Google also released a vulnerability test code. So what is a...

SSH Encryption and Connection Process

SSH Encryption and Connection Process Introduction SSH, or secure shell, is a secure protocol and the most common way of safely administering remote servers. Using a number of encryption technologies, SSH provides a mechanism for establishing a cryptographically secured connection between two...

SOL15730 - OpenSSH vulnerability

The mmnewkeysfromblob function in monitorwrap.c in sshd in OpenSSH 6.2 and 6.3, when an AES-GCM cipher is used, does not properly initialize memory for a MAC context data structure, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended ForceCommand and login-shell restrictions via packet dat...

Fedora 20 : python-elixir-0.7.1-14.fc20 (2014-9763)

CVE-2012-2146 The 'actsasencrypted' feature of Elixir does not correctly initialize the random seed for the Blowfish encryption algorithm, and is therefore insecure. This option adds a new optional AES mode which does not suffer this problem, plus a warning is now printed when insecure Blowfish...

Fedora 19 : python-elixir-0.7.1-14.fc19 (2014-9752)

CVE-2012-2146 The 'actsasencrypted' feature of Elixir does not correctly initialize the random seed for the Blowfish encryption algorithm, and is therefore insecure. This option adds a new optional AES mode which does not suffer this problem, plus a warning is now printed when insecure Blowfish...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3251

The MCollective aessecurity plugin, as used in Puppet Enterprise before 3.3.0 and Mcollective before 2.5.3, does not properly validate new server certificates based on the CA certificate, which allows local users to establish unauthorized Mcollective connections via unspecified vectors related to...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2014-476)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 31 to fix various security issues and bugs : - MFSA 2014-56/CVE-2014-1547/CVE-2014-1548 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2014-57/CVE-2014-1549 bmo1020205 Buffer overflow during Web Audio buffering for playback - MFSA 2014-58/CVE-2014-1550 bmo1020411...

openSUSE Security Update : openSUSE-2014- (openSUSE-2014--1)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 31 to fix various security issues and bugs : - MFSA 2014-56/CVE-2014-1547/CVE-2014-1548 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2014-57/CVE-2014-1549 bmo1020205 Buffer overflow during Web Audio buffering for playback - MFSA 2014-58/CVE-2014-1550 bmo1020411...

openSUSE Security Update : openSUSE-2014- (openSUSE-2014--1)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 31 to fix various security issues and bugs : - MFSA 2014-56/CVE-2014-1547/CVE-2014-1548 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2014-57/CVE-2014-1549 bmo1020205 Buffer overflow during Web Audio buffering for playback - MFSA 2014-58/CVE-2014-1550 bmo1020411...

Mac OSX Server DirectoryService Buffer Overflow

No description provided by source. Core Security - Corelabs Advisory http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/ Mac OSX Server DirectoryService buffer overflow 1. Advisory Information Title: Mac OSX Server DirectoryService buffer overflow Advisory ID: CORE-2013-0103 Advisory URL:...

Student Decrypts Simplocker Android Ransomware that Encrypts Files

In a previous story, I reported about a new ransomware threat known as Simplocker discovered by researchers at the security firm ESET, targeting Android users in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, India and Russia, for ransom. Simplocker Android/Simplocker.A is the latest Android ransomware that has...

openSUSE Security Update : openssh (openSUSE-SU-2013:1726-1)

openssh was updated to fix a memory corruption when AES-GCM is used which could lead to remote code execution after successful authentication. CVE-2013-4548 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE...