Announcing Project Zero

Posted by Chris Evans, Researcher Herder Security is a top priority for Google. We’ve invested a lot in making our products secure, including strong SSL encryption by default for Search, Gmail and Drive, as well as encrypting data moving between our data centers. Beyond securing our own products,...

Apple Fixes Critical Hole in Developer Center, Radar

Apple patched a potentially serious hole in its Developer Center earlier this week that could have given anyone unfettered access to the personal contact information of company developers, retail employees and even executives. Ironically enough, the bug existed in Apple’s internal bug reporting a...

Hacking Facebook to delete any account; Facebook again refuses to pay Bounty

In the past few days, Facebook refused to pay bounty to Khalil Shreateh, the security researcher who used the bug he discovered to post directly on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline after Facebook Security rejected his attempts to report it. Ehraz Ahmed, an independent Security Researcher...

Google Chrome Inbuilt Flash player allows Webcam Hacking

No longer limited to Hollywood movies about cybercrime, webcam hacking has stealthily and aggressively broken into average households "I've heard a hacker could access my webcam and watch me in front of my computer. Could this really happen?" YES, other than using a Remote administration tools, i...

CVE-2012-5660

Summary: CVE-2012-5660 affects ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) components, notably abrt-action-install-debuginfo, in ABRT 2.0.9 and earlier. The vulnerability allows a local attacker to set world-writable permissions on arbitrary files and potentially gain privileges via a symlink attack in t...

CVE-2012-5659: Undefined Security Weakness

Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool ABRT 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python modu...

CVE-2012-5660: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

abrt-action-install-debuginfo in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool ABRT 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to set world-writable permissions for arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on "the directories used to store information about crashes."...

CentOS Update for libreport CESA-2013:0215 centos6

Check for the Version of libreport OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for libreport CESA-2013:0215 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

RedHat Update for abrt and libreport RHSA-2013:0215-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

abrt, libreport security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0215 Updated abrt and libreport packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

CentOS 6 : abrt / libreport (CESA-2013:0215)

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

abrt: Arbitrary Python code execution due improper sanitization of the PYTHONPATH environment variable by installing debuginfo packages into cache

Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool ABRT 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python modu...

PT-2013-1146 · Red Hat +1 · Libreport-Plugin-Bugzilla +27

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: abrt versions 2.0.8 and earlier abrt-addon-ccpp versions 2.0.8 and earlier abrt-addon-kerneloops versions 2.0.8 and earlier abrt-addon-python versions 2.0.8 and earlier abrt-addon-vmcore versions 2.0.8 and earlier abrt-cli versions 2.0.8 and...

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...

CentOS 6 : abrt (CESA-2012:0841)

Updated abrt, libreport, btparser, and python-meh 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 low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

abrt, btparser, libreport security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:0841 Updated abrt, libreport, btparser, and python-meh 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 low security impact...

CVE-2012-1106: Undefined Security Weakness

The C handler plug-in in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool ABRT, possibly 2.0.8 and earlier, does not properly set the group GID permissions on core dump files for setuid programs when the sysctl fs.suiddumpable option is set to 2, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information...

CVE-2012-2691

The mcissuenoteupdate function in the SOAP API in MantisBT before 1.2.11 does not properly check privileges, which allows remote attackers with bug reporting privileges to edit arbitrary bugnotes via a SOAP request...

CVE-2012-2691

CVE-2012-2691 affects MantisBT (SOAP API) where the mc_issue_note_update function does not properly enforce privileges. As a result, remote attackers with bug reporting privileges could edit arbitrary bugnotes via SOAP requests. The vulnerability is described as code-level privilege check bypass ...

w3af v.1.1 - Web Application Attack and Audit Framework Released

w3af v.1.1 - Web Application Attack and Audit Framework Released w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project's goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend. To read our short and long term objectives. w3af i...