Debian Security Advisory DSA 2814-1 (varnish - denial of service)

A denial of service vulnerability was reported in varnish, a state of the art, high-performance web accelerator. With some configurations of varnish a remote attacker could mount a denial of service child-process crash and temporary caching outage via a GET request with trailing whitespace...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2800-1 (nss - buffer overflow)

Andrew Tinits reported a potentially exploitable buffer overflow in the Mozilla Network Security Service library nss. With a specially crafted request a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2800.nasl 6611 2017-07-07...

Automated Attack, Threat Intelligence Sharing Sought

BOSTON – If you’re looking for tangible information sharing success stories around attack intelligence, some might point to the prompt publishing of indicators of compromise IOC as an example. Security and forensics companies will publish MD5 hashes of malware, IP addresses involved in attacks,...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2794-1 (spip - several vulnerabilities)

Several vulnerabilities have been found in SPIP, a website engine for publishing, resulting in cross-site request forgery on logout, cross-site scripting on author page, and PHP injection. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2794.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from adviso...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2793-1 (libav - several vulnerabilities)

Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library. The CVE IDs mentioned above are just a small portion of the security issues fixed in this update. A full list of the changes is available at...

Terminator RAT became more sophisticated in recent APT attacks

Advanced Persistent Threat APT is a term referring to targeted attacks on enterprises and other organizations and recently referred to what appeared to be nation-state intelligence agencies using cyber assaults for both conventional espionage and industrial espionage. Advanced threats have target...

Terminator RAT became more sophisticated in recent APT attacks

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2780-1 (mysql-5.1 - several vulnerabilities)

This DSA updates the MySQL database to 5.1.72. This fixes multiple unspecified security problems in the Optimizer component: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013-1899837.html OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2780.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $ Auto-generated...

ASLR bypass techniques are popular with APT attacks

Address space layout randomization ASLR is a security technique involved in protection from buffer overflow attacks. Many recent APT Advanced Persistent Threat attacks have utilized many different ASLR bypass techniques during the past year, according to Researchers at FireEye. Many exploits and...

ASLR bypass techniques are popular with APT attacks

Address space layout randomization ASLR is a security technique involved in protection from buffer overflow attacks. Many recent APT Advanced Persistent Threat attacks have utilized many different ASLR bypass techniques during the past year, according to Researchers at FireEye. Many exploits and...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2779-1 (libxml2 - denial of service)

Aki Helin of OUSPG discovered many out-of-bounds read issues in libxml2, the GNOME project's XML parser library, which can lead to denial of service issues when handling XML documents that end abruptly. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2779.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $ Auto-generat...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2772-1 (typo3-src - cross-site scripting)

Markus Pieton and Vytautas Paulikas discovered that the embedded video and audio player in the TYPO3 web content management system is suspectible to cross-site-scripting. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2772.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2772-1 usin...

CVE-2013-1064

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1064

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2...

CVE-2013-1064

apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2...

CVE-2013-1064

CVE-2013-1064 concerns apt-xapian-index before 0.45ubuntu2.1, 0.44ubuntu7.1, and 0.44ubuntu5.1, which allegedly bypasses access restrictions by exploiting a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process. Connected Nessus entries reference CVE-2013-4288 (PolKi...

Three New APTs Spotted Piling On IE Zero Day

Attackers are continuing to pile on a critical Internet Explorer zero day that remains unpatched two weeks after it was reported. During the last two weeks, it appears that at least three separate targeted attack campaigns have been using the same bug previously used by Operation Deputy Dog, a...

Chinese APT Espionage campaign, dubbed 'Icefog' targeted Military contractors and Governments

Kaspersky Lab has identified another Chinese APT campaign, dubbed 'Icefog', who targeted Governmental institutions, Military contractors, maritime / shipbuilding groups, telecom operators, industrial and high technology companies and mass media. The Hacking group behind the attack who carry out...

Chinese APT Espionage campaign, dubbed 'Icefog' targeted Military contractors and Governments

Kaspersky Lab has identified another Chinese APT campaign, dubbed ‘Icefog’, who targeted Governmental institutions, Military contractors, maritime / shipbuilding groups, telecom operators, industrial and high technology companies and mass media. The Hacking group behind the attack who carry out...

Icefog Targeted APT Attacks Hit South Korea, Japan

An espionage campaign featuring precise targeting of victims and malware that allows the attackers one-on-one interaction with compromised systems has been uncovered. Government agencies, manufacturers, high tech companies and media organizations in South Korea and Japan have been the primary...