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 : 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:...

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...

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

A flaw was found in the way sendmail handled NUL characters in the CommonName field of X.509 certificates. An attacker able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority could trick sendmail into accepting it by mistake, allowing the attacker to perform a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sudo on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The sudo superuser do utility allows system administrators to give certain users the ability to run commands as root. A flaw was found in the sudo password checking logic. In configurations where the sudoers settings allowed a user to run a command using sudo with only the group ID changed, sudo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php-pecl-apc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)

The php-pecl-apc packages contain APC Alternative PHP Cache, the framework for caching and optimization of intermediate PHP code. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the 'apc.php' script, which provides a detailed analysis of the internal workings of APC and is shipped as part of the APC...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sos on SL6.x

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

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

Insecure temporary file use flaws were found in fenceegenera, fenceapc, and fenceapcsnmp. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by the victim running those utilities via a symbolic link attack. CVE-2008-4192, CVE-2008-4579 This update also fixes the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : rsyslog on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)

The rsyslog packages provide an enhanced, multi-threaded syslog daemon. A numeric truncation error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the rsyslog imfile module processed text files containing long lines. An attacker could use this flaw to crash the rsyslogd daemon or,...

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

The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Lempel-Ziv-Welch LZW decompression algorithm implementation used by the CUPS GIF image format reader. An attacker could create a malicious GIF ima...

Scientific Linux Security Update : cups on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Lempel-Ziv-Welch LZW decompression algorithm implementation used by the CUPS GIF image format reader. An attacker could create...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ypbind on SL3.x i386/x86_64

This updated package fixes the following bugs : - after a NIS server change, for example, after a server failure, ypbind corrupted files in the '/var/yp/binding/' directory. As well, these files were not updated, possibly causing old information to be retained. In these situations, glibc attempte...

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

It was found that libvirt did not set the user-defined backing store format when creating a new image, possibly resulting in applications having to probe the backing store to discover the format. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to read arbitrary files on the host. CVE-2010-2239 It was...

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

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. A flaw was found in the Python urllib and urllib2 libraries where they would not differentiate between different target URLs when handling automatic redirects. This caused Python applications using these modules to follo...

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 : kexec-tools on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The kexec-tools package contains the /sbin/kexec binary and utilities that together form the user-space component of the kernel's kexec feature. The /sbin/kexec binary facilitates a new kernel to boot using the kernel's kexec feature either on a normal or a panic reboot. The kexec fastboot...