A week in security (May 21 – May 27)

Last week we told you about a Mac cryptominer using XMRig, an overview of Dreamcast related scams, part 1 of decoding Emotet, and what to do about bad coding habits that die hard. We also published the results of our second CrackMe contest. Other news How a pioneer of machine learning became one ...

Libc locale exploit (2)

No description provided by source. / source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info ectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide...

Solaris 2.6/7.0 /locale Subsystem Format String

No description provided by source. / source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1634/info nectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,IBM AIX 3.x/4.x,Mandrake 7,RedHat 5.x/6.x,IRIX 6.x, Solaris 2.x/7/8,Turbolinux 6.x,Wirex Immunix OS 6.2 Locale Subsystem Format String Many UNIX operating systems provide...

phpBB 1.4.2, Remote user is able to modify SQL query.

Hi, there is a a potential security problem in the current version 1.4.2 and previous versions of phpBB http://www.phpbb.com. A remote user is able to modify a string passed as a SQL query to the MySQL database. The problem exists in the file bbmemberlist.php. A string called $sortby is supplied...