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...

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:...

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 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...

CVE-2010-3856

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...

GNU C Library Dynamic Linker Arbitrary DSO dlopen

The GNU C library dynamic linker will dlopen arbitrary DSOs during setuid loads ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cześć, This advisory describes CVE-2010-3856, an addendum to CVE-2010-3847. Please see http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/257 fo...

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...

GNU C library dynamic linker - '$ORIGIN' Expansion

from: http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=128739684614072&w=2 The GNU C library dynamic linker expands $ORIGIN in setuid library search path ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gruezi, This is CVE-2010-3847. The dynamic linker or dynamic loader is...

IBM Db2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Oct 2010)

IBM DB2 is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:ibm:db2"; ifdescription...

Fedora 12 : sudo-1.7.4p4-2.fc12 (2010-14996)

reset $HOME when the -i' option is used - update to new upstream version - sudo now uses /var/db/sudo for timestamps - new command available: sudoreplay - use native audit support - corrected license field value: BSD - ISC - added envkeep += HOME see rhbz614025 for backwards compatibility - added...

CVE-2010-3738

The Security component in IBM DB2 UDB 9.5 before FP6a logs AUDIT events by using a USERID and an AUTHID value corresponding to the instance owner, instead of a USERID and an AUTHID value corresponding to the logged-in user account, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to execute...