Openfire 3.6.4 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45682/info Openfire is prone to multiple cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an...

kernel: logic error in INET_DIAG bytecode auditing

net/ipv4/inetdiag.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly audit INETDIAG bytecode, which allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel infinite loop via crafted INETDIAGREQBYTECODE instructions in a netlink message that contains multiple attribute elements, as...

90% of Indian websites are vulnerable !

It has been three weeks since the website of the Central Bureau of Investigation was hacked into by a group of suspected Pakistanis who call themselves 'Pakistani Cyber Army'. The website still remains inactive. With the state's premier investigation agency's website hacked into and remaining...

Its 3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down !

3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down ! The website of the much sought-after Central Bureau of Investigation CBI continues to remain inactive, three weeks after it was hacked into by the so-called Pakistani Cyber Army. As a result, many have been badly hit, particularly the media...

FBI Audit Finds Minor Security Gaps in Belfast Police Department

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI recently identified minor security gaps in the Internet security procedures of the Belfast Police Department during a fall audit. Local officials acknowledged the need to address these issues over the next few years. The department was chosen randomly for t...

Vulnerabilities exposure cause hacking of Govt websites !

Audit finds 280 websites among Navy, J&K Govt and Nat'l archives face risk ! About 280 government websites face the risk of hacking finds a new security audit conducted on the aftermath of recent cyber attack on the CBI website from Pakistan. The Times of India reported that the audit has found...

Metasploit 3.5.1 adds Cisco device exploitation !

Metasploit now enables security professionals to exploit Cisco devices, performs passive reconnaissance through traffic analysis, provides more exploits and evaluates an organization's password security by brute forcing an ever increasing range of services. This latest release adds stealth...

Experts: OpenBSD Backdoor Allegations 'Almost Certainly False'

The incredible allegations that developers working under the auspices of the FBI and Justice Department planted a backdoor in the IPSec stack of the OpenBSD operating system are likely just that, experts say: not credible. “There is no way that the FBI paid anyone to create backdoors in OpenBSD a...

India Orders Security Certification for Government Websites After CBI Hack

India has mandated that all government ministries and departments secure their websites with proper certification. This directive follows the hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI website by a group calling themselves the "Pakistani Cyber Army." The National Informatics Centre has be...

CVE-2010-3880

net/ipv4/inetdiag.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly audit INETDIAG bytecode, which allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel infinite loop via crafted INETDIAGREQBYTECODE instructions in a netlink message that contains multiple attribute elements, as...

Week in Security: More Wikileaks Fallout, Cybersecurity Buzz and Browser Updates

The words “cyber war” were in the headlines this week, as controversy and debate about the leak of confidential diplomatic cables by Wikileaks reached a fever pitch. As speculation turned to the fallout from the ongoing publication of documents, the U.S. government laid the groundwork to prevent...

Audit: NASA Fails To Properly Wipe Data From Discarded Drives

A recent internal audit at NASA, the U.S. space agency, found significant weakness in the way the agency disposes of IT equipment, including evidence that used hard drives containing sensitive NASA data may have been sold to the public on the secondhand market. The audit focused on the Johnson an...

glibc: ld.so arbitrary DSO loading via LD_AUDIT in setuid/setgid programs

ld.so in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2, does not properly restrict use of the LDAUDIT environment variable to reference dynamic shared objects DSOs as audit objects, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an unsafe DSO located in a...

glibc: ld.so insecure handling of $ORIGIN in LD_AUDIT for setuid/setgid programs

elf/dl-load.c in ld.so in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 through 2.11.2, and 2.12.x through 2.12.1, does not properly handle a value of $ORIGIN for the LDAUDIT environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted dynamic shared object DSO located in an arbitrary...

Fedora 12 : glibc-2.11.2-3 (2010-16641)

Correct x86 CPU family and model check BZ11640, 596554 - Don't crash on unresolved weak symbol reference - sunrpc: Fix spurious fall-through - Never expand $ORIGIN in privileged programs 643306, CVE-2010-3847 - Require suid bit on audit objects in privileged programs CVE-2010-3856 Note that...

glibc: ld.so arbitrary DSO loading via LD_AUDIT in setuid/setgid programs

ld.so in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.11.3, and 2.12.x before 2.12.2, does not properly restrict use of the LDAUDIT environment variable to reference dynamic shared objects DSOs as audit objects, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an unsafe DSO located in a...

glibc security update

2.5-49.el55.7 - Require suid bit on audit objects in privileged programs 645677, CVE-2010-3856...

Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2.0 and Site Editor - Multiple Vulnerabilities

XSS + SQL Injection in Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2 + Site Editor Vendor: Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2 + Site Editor Product Description URL http://www.parallels.com/products/small-business-panel/ Date: 2010-09-17 Author : David Hoyt – http://cloudscan.me Contact : [email protected] Home...

Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2.0 and Site Editor - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2.0 and Site Editor - Multiple Vulnerabilities XSS + SQL Injection in Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2 + Site Editor Vendor: Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2 + Site Editor Product Description URL http://www.parallels.com/products/small-business-panel/ Date:...

Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection

XSS + SQL Injection in Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2 + Site Editor Vendor: Plesk Small Business Manager 10.2 + Site Editor Product Description URL http://www.parallels.com/products/small-business-panel/ Date: 2010-09-17 Author : David Hoyt – http://cloudscan.me Contact : [email protected] Home...