Phone spampocalypse: fighting back in the age of unwanted calls

When Nigel Guest, then president of the Council of Neighborhood Associations CNA, sent an email with the subject line, “test,” and the small letter “x” in its message body, the city of Berkeley, CA, went into a frenzy. You see, Mr. Guest thought he sent it only to himself, but he actually posted...

bind security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:2571 An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: cups-2.2.6-16.fc28

CUPS printing system provides a portable printing layer for UNIX=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD operating systems. It has been developed by Apple In c. to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces...

CVE-2016-6559

Improper bounds checking of the obuf variable in the linkntoa function in linkaddr.c of the BSD libc library may allow an attacker to read or write from memory. The full impact and severity depends on the method of exploit and how the library is used by applications. According to analysis by...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : postfix (EulerOS-SA-2018-1205)

According to the version of the postfix packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : postfix (EulerOS-SA-2018-1204)

According to the version of the postfix packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging...

proxy.lib.berkeley.edu Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-631748 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| proxy.lib.berkeley.edu Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| IAC Improper Access Control / CWE-284 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.5...

Sending Inaudible Commands to Voice Assistants

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to send inaudible commands to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear t...

USN-3633-1 linux-euclid vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF implementation in the Linux kernel improperly performed sign extension in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Intel Euclid) vulnerability (USN-3633-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3633-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter BPF implementation in the Linux kernel improperly performed sign extension in some situations. A local attack...

CVE-2018-7899

The Mali Driver of Huawei Berkeley-AL20 and Berkeley-BD smart phones with software Berkeley-AL20 8.0.0.105C00, 8.0.0.111C00, 8.0.0.112DC00, 8.0.0.116C00, 8.0.0.119C00, 8.0.0.119DC00, 8.0.0.122C00, 8.0.0.132C00, 8.0.0.132DC00, 8.0.0.142C00, 8.0.0.151C00, Berkeley-BD 1.0.0.21, 1.0.0.22, 1.0.0.23,...

CVE-2018-7899

CVE-2018-7899 corresponds to a double-free vulnerability in the Mali driver of Huawei Berkeley-AL20/ Berkeley-BD smartphones (Berkeley-AL20 8.0.0.x and Berkeley-BD 1.0.x ranges). The issue is triggered via the exception handling path and can be exploited by convincing a user to install a maliciou...

CVE-2018-7899

The Mali Driver of Huawei Berkeley-AL20 and Berkeley-BD smart phones with software Berkeley-AL20 8.0.0.105C00, 8.0.0.111C00, 8.0.0.112DC00, 8.0.0.116C00, 8.0.0.119C00, 8.0.0.119DC00, 8.0.0.122C00, 8.0.0.132C00, 8.0.0.132DC00, 8.0.0.142C00, 8.0.0.151C00, Berkeley-BD 1.0.0.21, 1.0.0.22, 1.0.0.23,...

Huawei Berkeley Mali Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

Berkeley-AL20, Berkeley-BD, etc. are smartphone products of China's Huawei Huawei. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Mali driver of the Huawei Berkeley-AL20, Berkeley-BD, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a system reboot by tricking the user into installing a malicious...

Postfix Berkeley DB Read Database Vulnerability

Postfix is a mail transfer agent used in Unix-like operating systems.Berkeley DB is a file database software. A security vulnerability exists in Berkeley DB 2.x and later versions in Postfix. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain privileges...

Directory traversal

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DBCONFIG in the current directory...

CVE-2017-10140

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DBCONFIG in the current directory...

CVE-2017-10140

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DBCONFIG in the current directory...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10140

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DBCONFIG in the current directory...

CVE-2017-10140

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DBCONFIG in the current directory...