UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14532

An issue was discovered in The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.6.6. There is an off-by-one overwrite due to an underflow on tools/hashtools/hfind.cpp while using a bogus hash table...

CVE-2019-14532

An issue was discovered in The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.6.6. There is an off-by-one overwrite due to an underflow on tools/hashtools/hfind.cpp while using a bogus hash table...

GoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy 'Snake Oil' Subdomains

You know those ads hawking bogus brain pills? Security researchers just helped take out a bunch of the spammers behind them...

Movie stream ebooks gun for John Wick 3 on Kindle store

We discovered a novel spam campaign over the weekend, targeting fans of John Wick on the Amazon Kindle store. The scam itself involves paying for what appears to be the upcoming third movie, turns into a bogus ebook, and goes on to hyperlink potential victims to a collection of third-party...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-3142

An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR requests via a carefully constructed request packet. A server that relies solely on TSIG keys for protection wit...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-3142

An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR requests via a carefully constructed request packet. A server that relies solely on TSIG keys for protection wit...

A week in security (November 6 – November 12)

After coming out victorious in a case against PUPs, Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski has this to say: We fought for our users and we won. -- Marcin Kleczynski @mkleczynski November 9, 2017 And my, do we feel like champions! You can read more about this here. Last week, we looked into the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-3142

An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR requests via a carefully constructed request packet. A server that relies solely on TSIG keys for protection wit...

CVE-2017-3142

An attacker who is able to send and receive messages to an authoritative DNS server and who has knowledge of a valid TSIG key name may be able to circumvent TSIG authentication of AXFR requests via a carefully constructed request packet. A server that relies solely on TSIG keys for protection wit...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7227

GNU linker ld in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow while processing a bogus input script, leading to a program crash. This relates to lack of '\0' termination of a name field in ldlex.l...

Webroot SecureAnywhere Mobile Protection - MITM SSL Certificate Vulnerability

Webroot SecureAnywhere Mobile Protection - MITM SSL Certificate Vulnerability -- http://www.info-sec.ca/advisories/Webroot-SecureAnywhere.html Overview "Webroot SecureAnywhere Business – Mobile Protection provides essential security for iPhones and iPads and includes lost device protection that...

grep security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.20-3 - Updated pcre buildrequires to require pcre-devel = 7.8-7 Related: rhbz1193030 2.20-2 - Fixed invalid UTF-8 byte sequence error in PCRE mode by pcre-backported-fixes patch Resolves: rhbz1193030 - Fixed buffer overrun for grep -F Resolves: CVE-2015-1345 - Fixed bogus date in the changelog...

Anthem Data Breach — 6 Things You Need To Know

The Nation’s second largest Health insurer company, Anthem, alerted its customers on Wednesday that hackers had stolen the personal information of over 80 Millions of its customers, making it the largest data breach and double the number of payment cards affected by Target data breach occurred in...

'Real Footage of Malaysian Flight MH 17 Shot Down' Facebook Spam Spreads Malware

A distasteful trend among the cyber crooks have began these days that they left no occasion, either good or bad, to snatch users’ financial information in order to make money as well as spread malware to victimize users. The tragedy of the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is no exception for...

kernel: cifs: incorrect handling of bogus user pointers during uncached writes

The cifsiovecwrite function in fs/cifs/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.5 does not properly handle uncached write operations that copy fewer than the requested number of bytes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause a denial of service memory...

Android Bitcoin-Mining Malware found on Google Play Store

Google always bound to face trouble over the wide and open nature of its app checking policies on Google Play Store, and despite so many security measures, the search engine giant mostly fails to recognize the Android malware that are lurking around its Google Play store in vast numbers. Recently...

kernel: cifs: incorrect handling of bogus user pointers during uncached writes

The cifsiovecwrite function in fs/cifs/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.5 does not properly handle uncached write operations that copy fewer than the requested number of bytes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause a denial of service memory...

Malicious Russian Tor Exit Relays Intercepting encrypted Traffic of Facebook Users

Tor is one of the best and freely available privacy software that lets people communicate anonymously online through a series of nodes that is designed to provide anonymity for users and bypass Internet censorship. When you use the Tor software, your IP address remains hidden and it appears that...

389-ds-base: ns-slapd crash due to bogus DN

ns-slapd in 389 Directory Server before 1.3.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service server crash via a crafted Distinguished Name DN in a MOD operation request...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2009-0473)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-0473 advisory. - misc exitnotify: kill the wrong capable check 494270 494271 CVE-2009-1337 - misc fork: CLONEPARENT && parentexecid interaction Don Howard 479963 4799...