Debian Security Advisory DSA 2836-1 (devscripts - arbitrary code execution)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in uscan, a tool to scan upstream sites for new releases of packages, which is part of the devscripts package. An attacker controlling a website from which uscan would attempt to download a source tarball could execute arbitrary code with the privilege...

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...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2831-1 (puppet - insecure temporary files)

An unsafe use of temporary files was discovered in Puppet, a tool for centralized configuration management. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability and overwrite an arbitrary file in the system. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2831.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $ Auto-generated fr...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2829-1 (hplip - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the HP Linux Printing and Imaging System: Insecure temporary files, insufficient permission checks in PackageKit and the insecure hp-upgrade service has been disabled. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2829.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2826-1 (denyhosts - Remote denial of ssh service)

Helmut Grohne discovered that denyhosts, a tool preventing SSH brute-force attacks, could be used to perform remote denial of service against the SSH daemon. Incorrectly specified regular expressions used to detect brute force attacks in authentication logs could be exploited by a malicious user ...

Ramble vulnerability mining of the file parsing-vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Blog post author: dragonltx Directory 1 - Preface 2 - file Fuzz introduction 3 - file Fuzz FY record 4 – Outlook 5 - epilogue 1 - Introduction ! ! From 2 0 1 0 year Google admitted suffered serious hack attacks, the APT advanced persistent threat will become the security circles known of...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2820-1 (nspr - integer overflow)

It was discovered that NSPR, Netscape Portable Runtime library, could crash an application using the library when parsing a certificate that causes an integer overflow. This flaw only affects 64-bit systems. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2820.nasl 6611 2017-07-07 12:07:20Z cfischer $...

China APT Hackers Target Diplomats in Ke3chang Campaign

European diplomats and ministries of foreign affairs have been targeted during recent G20 meetings by Chinese-speaking hackers conducting espionage campaigns using malware to siphon secrets from compromised computers. The latest incidents came in August when spear phishing messages spiked with...

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...