Why a War Studies PhD?

When I begin receiving multiple questions on a topic, it's a signal that I should write a blog post. Several of you have asked me about my experience as a PhD candidate in the King's College London Department of War Studies. In this post I will try to answer your questions by explaining how I got...

CVE-2015-5280

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

CVE-2015-8342

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

CVE-2015-8075

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

CVE-2015-5881

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2015-7760, CVE-2015-7761. Reason: this ID was intended for one issue, but was associated with two issues. Notes: All CVE users should consult CVE-2015-7760 and CVE-2015-7761 to identify the ID or IDs of interest. All references an...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5128

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

CVE-2015-5128

CVE-2015-5128 is associated with Adobe Flash Player (flash-plugin) vulnerabilities addressed in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2015-1603. The OpenVAS/NVD entries list CVE-2015-5128 among multiple flaws fixed by updating the Flash Player to a newer version (11.2.202.508) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/...

CVE-2014-9298

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2014-9750, CVE-2014-9751. Reason: this ID was intended for one issue, but was associated with two issues. Notes: All CVE users should consult CVE-2014-9750 and CVE-2014-9751 to identify the ID or IDs of interest. All references an...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2014-9750, CVE-2014-9751. Reason: this ID was intended for one issue, but was associated with two issues. Notes: All CVE users should consult CVE-2014-9750 and CVE-2014-9751 to identify the ID or IDs of interest. All references an...

CVE-2014-9297

The connected Debian advisory documents describe CVE-2014-9297 as a stack-based buffer overflow in ntpd’s autokey handling: when an NTP client decrypts a secret from a server, an attacker could trigger a crash. Affected software is ntpd (NTP) and the issue is tied to the incomplete fix for CVE-20...

CVE-2015-6666

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

CVE-2015-5270

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

CVE-2015-5249

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

CVE-2015-0942

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2015-6742, CVE-2015-6743, CVE-2015-6744, CVE-2015-6745, CVE-2015-6746, CVE-2015-6747. Reason: This candidate originally combined multiple issues that have different vulnerability types and other complex abstraction issues. Notes:...

CVE-2015-0942

CVE-2015-0942 is rejected/not used and does not represent an active vulnerability entry.

WordPress Candidate Application Form Plugin 1.0 - Arbitrary File Download

Candidate Application Form plugin is prone to an arbitrary file download vulnerability via "downloadpdffile.php". It allows an attacker to download arbitrary files from the web server and get potentially sensitive information. Solution Update the plugin...

WordPress Plugin Candidate Application Form 1.0 - Arbitrary File Download

WordPress Plugin Candidate Application Form 1.0 - Arbitrary File Download Title: Remote file download vulnerability in candidate-application-form v1.0 wordpress plugin Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @larry0 Date: 2015-07-12 Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/candidate-application-form...

WordPress Plugin Candidate Application Form 1.0 - Arbitrary File Download

Title: Remote file download vulnerability in candidate-application-form v1.0 wordpress plugin Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @larry0 Date: 2015-07-12 Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/candidate-application-form Vendor: https://profiles.wordpress.org/flaxlandsconsulting/ Vendor Notified:...

WordPress Candidate Application Form 1.0 File Download

Title: Remote file download vulnerability in candidate-application-form v1.0 wordpress plugin Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @larry0 Date: 2015-07-12 Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/candidate-application-form Vendor: https://profiles.wordpress.org/flaxlandsconsulting/ Vendor Notified:...

CVE-2015-4247

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue in customer-controlled software. Notes: none...