98% of SSL enabled websites still using SHA-1 based weak Digital Certificates

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST had published a document on Jan 2011 that the SHA-1 algorithm will be risky and should be disallowed after year 2013, but it was recently noticed by Netcraft experts that NIST.gov website itself were using 2014 dated SSL certificate with SHA...

Null pointer dereference

A certain hashing algorithm in Telepathy Gabble 0.16.x before 0.16.5 and 0.17.x before 0.17.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2013-1769

A certain hashing algorithm in Telepathy Gabble 0.16.x before 0.16.5 and 0.17.x before 0.17.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2013-1769

The CVE affects Telepathy Gabble: versions 0.16.x before 0.16.5 and 0.17.x before 0.17.3 are vulnerable due to a hashing algorithm that can trigger a NULL pointer dereference, causing a remote denial of service (crash). No exploitation details are provided beyond this, but the impact is a crash/D...

Yahoo Encryption Slammed for Lack of Forward Secrecy, HSTS

Yahoo, as promised, rolled out HTTPs by default this week for its email service, bringing it in line with other Internet companies that have been securing users’ communication for years. But if Yahoo expected applause from security experts, it can think again. The response from those well-versed ...

RHEL 6 : openssl (RHSA-2014:0015)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0015 advisory. OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer Security TLS v1 protocols, as well as a...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security update

Updated openssl packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

openssl: crash when using TLS 1.2 caused by use of incorrect hash algorithm

The sslgetalgorithm2 function in ssl/s3lib.c in OpenSSL before 1.0.2 obtains a certain version number from an incorrect data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via crafted traffic from a TLS 1.2 client...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2833-1] openssl security update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2833-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 01, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2833-1 (openssl - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple security issues have been fixed in OpenSSL: The TLS 1.2 support was susceptible to denial of service and retransmission of DTLS messages was fixed. In addition this update disables the insecure DualECDRBG algorithm which was unused anyway, see...

DSA-2833-1 openssl - several

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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7421

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 module name in the salgname field, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9644...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gnupg-1.4.16-2.fc18

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6449

The sslgetalgorithm2 function in ssl/s3lib.c in OpenSSL before 1.0.2 obtains a certain version number from an incorrect data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via crafted traffic from a TLS 1.2 client...

Researchers Find Way to Extract 4096-Bit RSA Key via Sound

A trio of scientists have verified that results they first presented nearly 10 years ago are in fact valid, proving that they can extract a 4096-bit RSA key from a laptop using an acoustic side-channel attack that enables them to record the noise coming from the laptop during decryption, using a...

Matthew Green on How NSA Breaks SSL

In order for the National Security Agency to collect the massive amounts of communication it has from email and Web traffic, it needs to elude, leapfrog or bash through the barrier that is SSL. How it’s doing so is the real question, one that noted Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matthew Green wants...

A University campus card for the amount of the check algorithm to crack and fix-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The campus card is a Mifare Classic card, not the original card. Its encryption is very simple, and all the cards the same key, you can use this vulnerability to modify the amount of, any on-campus consumer of!! Then you can use the phone This is to read the key, just encrypt 1 Sector to! And ver...

Github accounts compromised in massive Brute-Force attack using 40,000 IP addresses

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a massive Password Brute-Force attack that successfully compromised some accounts, GitHub has urged users to set up two-factor authentication for their accounts and has already reset passwords for compromised accounts. "We sen...

Github accounts compromised in massive Brute-Force attack using 40,000 IP addresses

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a massive Password Brute-Force attack that successfully compromised some accounts, GitHub has urged users to set up two-factor authentication for their accounts and has already reset passwords for compromised accounts. “We sen...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : nss (MDVSA-2013:270)

Multiple security issues was identified and fixed in mozilla NSPR and NSS : Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.15.2 does not ensure that data structures are initialized before read operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified othe...