Fedora 15 : asterisk-1.8.3-1.fc15 (2011-2360)

The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.3. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ The release of Asterisk 1.8.3 resolves several issues reported by the community and would have not been possible...

SAUSAGE Con Delves into IT Security's 'Human Problem'

‘Why is security so hard?’ That’s the question that a new conference focused on “useable security” will attempt to answer by bringing together experts on security, software development and human-computer interaction. DEK: ‘Why is security so hard?’ That’s the question that a new conference will...

[SECURITY] [DSA-2154-1] exim4 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2154-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Stefan Fritsch January 30, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Rootkit Being Used in Attacks on Exim Bug

Attackers have begun using the bug in the Exim mailer that was disclosed earlier this week to install a rootkit on machines running vulnerable versions of the software. The vulnerability in Exim, which is a mail transfer agent used on Unix-based machines, came to light on Monday and can result in...

New Trojan Targets User Credentials on Popular Sites

A new information-stealing Trojan, believed to be of Chinese origin, has been identified by Avira researchers. This malware targets usernames and passwords for a variety of popular websites, including YouTube, Google, and PayPal, as well as Chinese sites like Youku, Tudou, Sogou, and Soho. The...

Researcher Releases JavaSnoop Java-Analysis Tool

Java has long been one of the more widely used–and widely criticized–technologies on the Web. It’s used virtually everywhere and roundly panned by security researchers for its security shortcomings. Now, a researcher has released a new tool, called JavaSnoop, that’s designed to help people better...

SuSE 11 Security Update : MySQL (SAT Patch Number 2317)

Updated MySQL packages fix the following bugs : - upstream 47320 - checking server certificates. CVE-2009-4028 - upstream 48291 - error handling in subqueries. CVE-2009-4019 - upstream 47780 - preserving nullvalue flag in GeomFromWKB. CVE-2009-4019 - upstream 39277 - symlink behaviour fixed...

What is Information Security?

Recently, I’ve heard some bits and pieces about how Information Security InfoSec can be “threat-centric” or “vulnerability-centric”. This stuck me funny for a number of reasons, mainly it showed a basic bias towards what InfoSec is. And to me, InfoSec is too complex to be described as...

Ubuntu Update for libvirt regression USN-1008-4

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1008-4 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10084.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for libvirt regression USN-1008-4 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : libvirt regression (USN-1008-4)

USN-1008-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libvirt. The upstream fixes for CVE-2010-2238 changed the behavior of libvirt such that the domain XML could not specify 'hostdevice' as the qemu sub-type. While libvirt 0.8.3 and later will longer support specifying this sub-type, this update restores the old...

Uncovering Covert Command-and-Control Channels

As the line between securely hosted and controlled enterprise applications and cloud-based applications continues to blur, there’s more “legitimate” traffic between corporate networks and the Internet than ever before. This opens up new vectors for attack by hackers and cybercriminals as more...

CVE-2010-3557

Unspecified vulnerability in the Swing component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 21, 5.0 Update 25, 1.4.227, and 1.3.128 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the Octobe...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the Swing component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 21, 5.0 Update 25, 1.4.227, and 1.3.128 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the Octobe...

Fedora 13 : ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 (2010-14640)

This package fixes a security problem CVE-2010-2055 in ghostscript whereby gs uses the current working directory to look for certain types of system file. This has been fixed by changing the default behaviour. Additionally, several other bugs have been fixed: scripts defining GSEXECUTABLE have be...

SuSE 10 Security Update : MySQL (ZYPP Patch Number 6899)

This update fixes various security issues bnc557669 : upstream 47320 - checking server certificates CVE-2009-4028 upstream 48291 - error handling in subqueries CVE-2009-4019 upstream 47780 - preserving nullvalue flag in GeomFromWKB CVE-2009-4019 upstream 39277 - symlink behaviour fixed...

Potential attack vector using attachments

Suspicious handling of attachment uploads with filenames containing quotes the quoted ended up being repeated and semicolons semicolon and all subsequent characters were stripped from filename...

Fedora 13 : DeviceKit-power-0.9.0-2.fc13 / dbus-glib-0.86-4.fc13 (2010-12863)

It was discovered that dbus-glib did not enforce the 'access' flag on exported GObject properties. If such a property were read/write internally but specified as read-only externally, a malicious, local user could use this flaw to modify that property of an application. Such a change could impact...

rssh -- configuration restrictions bypass

Derek Martin rssh maintainer reports: John Barber reported a problem where, if the system administrator misconfigures rssh by providing too few access bits in the configuration file, the user will be given default permissions scp to the entire system, potentially circumventing any configured...

Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 : firefox, firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerability (USN-930-6)

USN-957-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Daniel Holbert discovered that the fix for CVE-2010-1214 introduced a regression which did not properly initialize a plugin pointer. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browse...

Apple Safari for Windows and Internet Explorer Combined Code Execution (CVE-2008-2540)

Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most widely used Internet browser. Safari is a web browsing application developed by Apple. A combination of the default download location in Safari and how the Windows desktop handles executables creates a blended threat in which files may be downloaded to a...