Race condition

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 employs a locking approach that does not consider slave timer instances, which allows local users to cause a denial of service race condition, use-after-free, and system crash via a crafted ioctl call...

reggioemiliaapproach.net XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.reggioemiliaapproach.net/?domain=%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=prompt%28/XSSPOSED/%29%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 03.03.2016 Latest check for patch:| 03.03.2016 02:38 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank|...

N3XT — Advanced CHIP that Could Make Your Computer 1000 Times Faster

Researchers have come up with an all new way to revolutionize the standard computer chip that comes inbuilt in all our electronics. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and the University of California, Berkeley among others, have invented a new material that could replace the 'silicon' in...

Apple Clarifies Privacy Policy

Apple’s clarified and repackaged privacy policy is merely the storefront to a company-wide decision to make the safety and integrity of user data a differentiator among large technology companies, experts said. The new privacy policy appeared today filled with practical advice for users, describi...

CVE-2015-2808

The RC4 algorithm, as used in the TLS protocol and SSL protocol, does not properly combine state data with key data during the initialization phase, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct plaintext-recovery attacks against the initial bytes of a stream by sniffing network traffic...

CVE-2014-8172

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup or system crash via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O AIO operations...

Design/Logic Flaw

The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup or system crash via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O AIO operations...

CVE-2014-8172

CVE-2014-8172 affects the Linux kernel prior to 3.13, where files list handling uses an inappropriate locking approach around Asynchronous I/O (AIO). This local-denial-of-service flaw can cause soft lockups or a system crash. The available documentation confirms the vulnerability and its local at...

jQuery jui_filter_rules PHP Code Execution Vulnerability

The jQuery juifilterrules parsing library suffers from an arbitrary php remote code execution vulnerability. PHP Code Execution in juifilterrules Parsing Library ====================================================== Researcher: Timo Schmid Description =========== juifilterrules1 is a jQuery plug...

Openwall 3.1 Released With Fixes for Shellshock, POODLE Attack

The maintainers of the Openwall security enhanced Linux distribution have released a new stable version, which includes fixes for a number of serious vulnerabilities, such as the Shellshock Bash bug and the flaw in SSLv3 that leads to the POODLE attack. Openwall is designed to be a small, compact...

Google Proposes Marking 'HTTP' as Insecure in 2015

The Chromium security team is devising a plan to explicitly and actively inform users that ‘HTTP’ connections provide no data security protections. Google’s grand vision is that some day, HTTPS will become so widespread and commonplace that secure connections can be unmarked in the way that HTTP...

Avoiding Data Breaches: Context Aware Behavioral Analytics

RESTON, VA – Security, it turns out, is all about layers, where if one layer fails, there are secondary and tertiary and a long line of backup defenses. This is neither new nor revolutionary. It’s why castles had moats, drawbridges and parapets; it’s also why prisons have cells, walls and gates...

AST-2014-016: Remote Crash Vulnerability in PJSIP channel driver

Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2014-015 Product Asterisk Summary Remote Crash Vulnerability in PJSIP channel driver Nature of Advisory Denial of Service Susceptibility Remote Unauthenticated Sessions Severity Moderate Exploits Known No Reported On 30 October 2014 Reported By Yaron Nahum...

Lavarel-Security XSS Filter Bypass Vulnerability

Lavarel-Security cross site scripting filter suffers from a bypass vulnerability. Product: Lavarel-Security XSS Filter Bypass Vulnerability: Mutation Based XSS Bypass Impact: Medium/High Authors: Rafay Baloch Company: RHAinfoSEC Website: http://rhainfosec.com Status: Fixed ========= Description...

OpenSSL -- Local Information Disclosure

OpenSSL reports: A flaw in the implementation of Montgomery Ladder Approach would create a side-channel that leaks sensitive timing information. A local attacker might be able to snoop a signing process and might recover the signing key from it...

[Ncrack] High-Speed Network Authentication Cracker

Ncrack is a high-speed network authentication cracking tool. It was built to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords. Security professionals also rely on Ncrack when auditing their clients. Ncrack was designed using a...

Sub Encoder (optimised)

Encodes a payload using a series of SUB instructions and writing the encoded value to ESP. This concept is based on the known SUB encoding approach that is widely used to manually encode payloads with very restricted allowed character sets. It will not reset EAX to zero unless absolutely necessar...

Santander BillPay Security Vulnerabilities Patched

Security weaknesses on the Santander Group BillPay website and mobile banking application have been addressed by the financial services organization’s developer Headland after they were exposed less than a week ago. U.K. consultant Paul Moore of Cresona Corp., reported a number of serious...

Replacing Security Best Practices With Things That Work

NEW YORK–The term “best practices” is high on the list of overused and nearly meaningless phrases that get thrown around in the security field. It forms the basis for regulations such as HIPAA and PCI DSS and yet if you asked a random sample of 10 security people what the phrase meant, you’d like...

NIST Publishes Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework

Following an Executive Order issued by U.S. President Barack Obama in February of this year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST yesterday made public a provisional copy of the government’s cybersecurity framework and says it will accept public comment on the draft for the nex...