ntp: distributed denial of service amplification

CVE-2016-4953 distributed denial of service amplification An attacker who knows the origin timestamp and can send a spoofed packet containing a CRYPTO-NAK to an ephemeral peer target before any other response is sent can demobilize that association. Credit to Miroslav Lichvar of Red Hat -...

NTP Patches Flaws That Enable DDoS

The network time protocol, at the center of a number of high-profile DDoS attacks in 2014, was updated on Thursday to ntp-4.2.8p8. The latest version includes patches for five vulnerabilities, including one rated high-severity. NTP, specifically the NTP daemon, synchronizes system clocks with tim...

HackerOne: Denial of service in report view.

Hello Team! First of all thank you for acknowledging my feature request, I know it will help a lot of users. Description: ========== I just wanted to report a potential vulnerability on the report view functionality. For obvious reasons I'm using my sandboxed team on an alternate account to test...

Drupal Core Violence Amplification Attack Vulnerability

Drupal is a free and open source content management system developed in PHP. A brute force amplification attack vulnerability exists in Drupal Core.The XML-RPC system allows a large number of calls to the same method to be done once, which can be used as a factor in favor in a brute force attack...

Uber: Brute Force Amplification Attack

The websites on following hosts - newsroom.uber.com - eng.uber.com - brand.uber.com are vulnerable to Wordpress Brute Force Amplification Attack where an attacker can try a large number of Wordpress usernames and password login combinations in single HTTP request more at...

IKE/IKEv2 protocol implementations may allow network amplification attacks

Overview Implementations of the IKEv2 protocol are vulnerable to network amplification attacks. Description CWE-406: Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume Network Amplification IKE/IKEv2 and other UDP-based protocols can be used to amplify denial-of-service attacks. In some scenarios, an...

Brute force amplification attacks via XML-RPC

More info at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001...

Brute force amplification attacks via XML-RPC

More info at https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2016-001...

CVE-2015-6925

wolfSSL formerly CyaSSL before 3.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption or traffic amplification via a crafted DTLS cookie in a ClientHello message...

CVE-2015-7794

Corega CG-WLNCM4G devices provide an open DNS resolver, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service traffic amplification via crafted queries...

Design/Logic Flaw

Corega CG-WLNCM4G devices provide an open DNS resolver, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service traffic amplification via crafted queries...

CG-WLNCM4G may behave as an open resolver

Overview CG-WLNCM4G provided by Corega Inc is a network camera. CG-WLNCM4G contains an issue where it may behave as an open resolver. SASABE Tetsuro of The University of Tokyo reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning...

JVN#51250073: CG-WLNCM4G may behave as an open resolver

CG-WLNCM4G provided by Corega Inc is a network camera. CG-WLNCM4G contains an issue where it may behave as an open resolver. Impact The device may be leveraged for use in a DNS amplification attack and unknowingly become a part of a DDoS attack. Solution Do not use CG-WLNCM4G As of December 25,...

dnsmasq < 2.63test1 libvirtd TCP Network Packet Parsing Response DNS Amplification DoS

The remote dnsmasq server is running a version prior to 2.63test1. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability in libvirtd due to improper parsing of malformed network packets. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to cause an amplification of a large amount of...

Internet Root Name Servers DDoS Attack

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. The attacks happened on Nov. 30 and again on Dec. 1, and each time, massive volumes of traffic, peaking at five million...

Bohatei - Flexible and Elastic DDoS Defense

Bohatei is a first of its kind platform that enables flexible and elastic DDoS defense using SDN and NFV. The repository contains a first version of the components described in the Bohatei paper, as well as a web-based User Interface. The backend folder consists of : an implementation of the...

CVE-2006-1624

The default configuration of syslogd in the Linux sysklogd package does not enable the -x disable name lookups option, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service traffic amplification via messages with spoofed source IP addresses...

Novel NTP Attacks Roll Back Time

Sharon Goldberg remembers the cold February day when her Boston University PhD candidate Aanchal Malhotra was studying routing security, in particular, attacks against the resource public key infrastructure RPKI—and kept hitting a dead end because of a cache-flushing issue. The resourceful Malhot...

Via WordPress XMLRPC for violence amplification attacks-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Violent attacks are now still on the Internet to see the oldest and most common type of attack. If you have a Online server, it most likely are suffering from such attacks. This attack may be through SSH or FTP as the Protocol. Of course, if it is aWeb server, which may be through a Web-based...

wolfssl -- DDoS amplification in DTLS

Sebastian Ramacher identified an error in wolfSSL's implementation of the server side of the DTLS handshake, which could be abused for DDoS amplification or a DoS on the DTLS server itself...