As Bug Bounty Programs Mature, Still More Room For Growth

Google’s recent announcements that the company is doubling some of the rewards in its Chromium Vulnerability Reward Program and will also be committing up to $2 million for another round of the Pwnium contest in a couple of months brought a round of cheers from the security research community. Th...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:1156 centos6

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:1156 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2012:1156)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

opera to 12.01 (important)

Opera was updated to version 12.1, fixing various bugs and security issues. http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1201/ Fixes and Stability Enhancements since Opera 12.00 General and User Interface Several general fixes and stability improvements Website thumbnail memory usage improvements...

BackTrack 5 R3 Released - Download Now !

The latest version of Backtrack is out! Check out Backtrack 5 R3! "The time has come to refresh our security tool arsenal – BackTrack 5 R3 has been released. R3 focuses on bug-fixes as well as the addition of over 60 new tools – several of which were released in BlackHat and Defcon 2012. A whole...

Fedora 17 : glpi-0.83.4-1.fc17 / glpi-data-injection-2.2.2-1.fc17 / etc (2012-10661)

The official GLPI 0.83.3 version is now available from download This version correct several minor bugs and a security bug. You are stongly encouraged to update your actual version. Thanks to Prajal Kulkarni. Upstream Changelog Version 0.83.31 - Bug 3633: Check rights for massive actions for...

Fedora 17 : maniadrive-1.2-43.fc17 / php-5.4.5-1.fc17 (2012-10936)

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.5. This release fixes over 30 bugs and includes a fix for a security related overflow issue in the stream implementation CVE-2012-2688. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.5. Full changelog:...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gfs2-utils on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple insecure temporary file use flaws were discovered in GFS2 user level utilities. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by a victim running those utilities typically root with the output of the utilities via a symbolic link attack. CVE-2008-6552 Thi...

Scientific Linux Security Update : rsync on SL5.x i386/x86_64

rsync is a program for synchronizing files over a network. A flaw was found in the way the rsync daemon handled the 'filter', 'exclude', and 'exclude from' options, used for hiding files and preventing access to them from rsync clients. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass those...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sos on SL5.x (20120221)

Sos is a set of tools that gather information about system hardware and configuration. The sosreport utility incorrectly included Certificate-based private entitlement keys for upstream updates in the resulting archive of debugging information. An attacker able to access the archive could use the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The xen packages contain administration tools and the xend service for managing the kernel-xen kernel for virtualization on Scientific Linux. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Xen hypervisor SCSI subsystem emulation. An unprivileged, local guest user could provide a large number of bytes th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120710)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fix : - The fix for CVE-2011-1083 introduced a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's Event Poll epoll subsystem handled resource clean up when an ELOOP error code was returned. A local, unprivileged user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the following security issues : A memory leak was found in the Red Hat Content Accelerator kernel patch. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion. CVE-2007-5494, Important A flaw was found in the handling of IEEE...

Scientific Linux Security Update : yum on SL5.x i386/x86_64

This updated yum package fixes the following bugs : - The nightly yum.cron will spew out alot of information during the add-ons section. The logging level for these information messages was turned up so that it doesn't happen during yum.cron - The kernel-module plugin now detects when yum has...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Security fixes : - a missing capability check was found in the Linux kernel dochangetype routine. This could allow a local unprivileged user to gain privileged access or cause a denial of service. CVE-2008-2931, Important - a flaw was found in the Linux kernel Direct-IO implementation. This could...

Scientific Linux Security Update : eclipse on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The Eclipse software development environment provides a set of tools for C/C++ and Java development. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the Eclipse Help Contents web application. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against victims by tricking them in...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Security fixes : - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel NFSv4 implementation. Several of the NFSv4 file locking functions failed to check whether a file had been opened on the server before performing locking operations on it. A local, unprivileged user on a system with a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : abrt, libreport, btparser, and python-meh on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)

ABRT Automatic Bug Reporting Tool is a tool to help users to detect defects in applications and to create a bug report with all the information needed by a maintainer to fix it. It uses a plug-in system to extend its functionality. libreport provides an API for reporting different problems in...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libguestfs on SL6.x x86_64 (20120620)

libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. It was found that editing files with virt-edit left said files in a world-readable state and did not preserve the file owner or Security-Enhanced Linux context. If an administrator on the host used virt-edit to edit a file...

Scientific Linux Security Update : python on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Multiple flaws were found in the Python rgbimg module. If an application written in Python was using the rgbimg module and loaded a specially crafted SGI image file, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the applicatio...