Vulnerability in OpenSSL - Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour

Avoid some undefined pointer arithmetic A common idiom in the codebase is to check limits in the following manner: “p + len limit” Where “p” points to some malloc’d data of SIZE bytes and limit == p + SIZE “len” here could be from some externally supplied data e.g. from a TLS message. The rules o...

MGASA-2015-0457 Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libxml2 packages fix security vulnerabilities: In libxml2 before 2.9.3, one case where when dealing with entities expansion, it failed to exit, leading to a denial of service CVE-2015-5312. In libxml2 before 2.9.3, it was possible to hit a negative offset in the name indexing used to...

Animated line drawing in SVG

There's a demo you're missing here because JavaScript or inline SVG isn't available. I like using diagrams as a way of showing information flow or browser behaviour, but large diagrams can be daunting at first glance. When I gave talks about the Application Cache and rendering performance I start...

Mathematica8 on Linux /tmp/MathLink vulnerability

The problem that was reported as below for Mathematica7, is present also/still in the "free trial" version of Mathematica8. Cheers, Paul Szabo [email protected] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia --- I wrote on 14 May 2010:...

Fedora 12 : ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 (2010-14633)

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...

pam_captcha information leak

Behaviour is different depending on user account existance...

Internet Explorer COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption (CVE-2006-4495)

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows HTML documents to embed ActiveX controls for the authoring of dynamic web content. ActiveX controls are based on Component Object Model COM technology. The invocation of an ActiveX control is performed by Internet Explorer by internally instantiating an object. ...

Microsoft Word Document Stream Handling Code Execution (MS07-024; CVE-2007-0870)

Microsoft Word is a document authoring product released by the Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Word is available packaged with the Microsoft Office suite, as well as in form of a standalone product. Its native file format is the Word Document, normally identified by the .doc file extension. A Wo...

Fedora 10 : pptp-1.7.2-5.fc10 (2009-3070)

This update corrects the behaviour of pptpsetup when its --delete option is used, retaining the permissions of /etc/ppp/chap-secrets rather than creating a new file that is likely to be world-readable. If you have previously used the --delete option of pptpsetup, you should reset the permissions ...

Norman SandBox Analyzer detection

Malware code can detect sandbox presence and change it's behaviour...

Check Point FW-1 Syslog Daemon - Unfiltered Escape Sequence

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7161/info An issue has been discovered in Check Point FW-1 syslog daemon when attempting to process a malicious, remotely supplied, syslog message. Specifically, some messages containing escape sequences are not properly filtered out. This may result in...

Check Point FW-1 Syslog Daemon - Unfiltered Escape Sequence

Check Point FW-1 Syslog Daemon - Unfiltered Escape Sequence source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7161/info An issue has been discovered in Check Point FW-1 syslog daemon when attempting to process a malicious, remotely supplied, syslog message. Specifically, some messages containing escape...

netcache.snmp.public.txt

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:43:40 +0200 From: Marco Davids To: [email protected] Subject: Netcache snmp behaviour Hi, We noticed an unexpected behaviour on our NetApps C630 Netcache's. The problem even seems to exist in the latest software- release 3.3.1. The problem concerns the SNMP default...