Fedora 11 : moodle-1.9.7-1.fc11 (2009-13080)

Moodle upstream has released latest stable versions 1.9.7 and 1.8.11, fixing multiple security issues. The list for 1.9.7 release: -------------------------- Security issues MSA-09-0022 - Multiple CSRF problems fixed MSA-09-0023 - Fixed user account disclosure in LAMS module MSA-09-0024 - Fixed...

Fedora 10 : moodle-1.9.7-1.fc10 (2009-13040)

Moodle upstream has released latest stable versions 1.9.7 and 1.8.11, fixing multiple security issues. The list for 1.9.7 release: -------------------------- Security issues MSA-09-0022 - Multiple CSRF problems fixed MSA-09-0023 - Fixed user account disclosure in LAMS module MSA-09-0024 - Fixed...

Clarke: Public Dialogue Needed on Cyberwar

Richard Clarke, a former top adviser on information security and terrorism in the Bush White House, is calling for Barack Obama to initiate an open public dialogue on the use of offensive and defensive information warfare capabilities and what the consequences of a cyberwar could be for the...

Koobface, Twitter Attacks Growing More Sophisticated

GENEVA — The attacks and scams that have been affecting users of Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networking sites are continuing to evolve and improve, as the attackers learn more about their victims and refine their tactics, experts say. The poster child for these attacks has been the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: ghostscript-8.70-1.fc11

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language and an interpreter for Portable Document Format PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many...

Oracle Secure Backup Administration Server Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on vulnerable installations of Oracle Secure Backup. User interaction is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the logic used to authenticate a user to the administration server running on port...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.0.3.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread Guru Anbalagane orabug 6125546 - netrx/netpoll race avoidanc...

imap-capabilities NSE Script

Retrieves IMAP email server capabilities. IMAP4rev1 capabilities are defined in RFC 3501. The CAPABILITY command allows a client to ask a server what commands it supports and possibly any site-specific policy. Script Arguments smbdomain, smbhash, smbnoguest, smbpassword, smbtype, smbusername See...

North Korea upgrading cyberattack capabilities

From AFP Via Yahoo News The North Korean regime is in the process of building up its capabilities to launch offensive computer attacks, according to news reports out of South Korea. The reports say that North Korea is specifically strengthening its information warfare program with the intention o...

Clarity needed on cyberwar plans, study says

From The New York Times John Markoff and John Shanker A study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences found that the United States military needs to create an open, public dalogue to clarify its plans around using offensive weapons in cyberspace. The study also recommends that the military...

CVE-2009-1082

Sun Java System Identity Manager (IdM) 7.0–8.0 is affected by a privilege-escalation issue where remote authenticated users can submit crafted commands to the Admin Console to gain administrative privileges (e.g., account creation) via the saveNoValidate and related saveNoValidateAllowedFormsAndW...

CVE-2009-1082

Sun Java System Identity Manager IdM 7.0 through 8.0 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by submitting crafted commands to the Admin Console, as demonstrated by privileges for account creation and other administrative capabilities, related to the saveNoValidate action and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: ghostscript-8.63-5.fc10

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScriptTM interpreter, a set of C procedures the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language and an interpreter for Portable Document Format PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into ma...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: ghostscript-8.63-2.fc9

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScriptTM interpreter, a set of C procedures the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language and an interpreter for Portable Document Format PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into ma...

U.S. needs to investigate cyberweapons

Despite what you may have seen on 24 or read in Tom Clancy’s novels, the United States is well behind much of the rest of the world in developing both defensive and offensive cybersecurity capabilities, and that’s a deficit that may end up costing us dearly in the long run, according to a longtim...

Fedora Update for ghostscript FEDORA-2008-1998

Check for the Version of ghostscript OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for ghostscript FEDORA-2008-1998 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: DevIL-1.7.5-2.fc9

Developer's Image Library DevIL is a programmer's library to develop applications with very powerful image loading capabilities, yet is easy for a developer to learn and use. Ultimate control of images is left to the developer, so unnecessary conversions, etc. are not performed. DevIL utiliz es a...

mysql-info NSE Script

Connects to a MySQL server and prints information such as the protocol and version numbers, thread ID, status, capabilities, and the password salt. If service detection is performed and the server appears to be blocking our host or is blocked because of too many connections, then this script isn'...

WordPress MU 1.3.2 - active_plugins option Code Execution

WordPress MU 1.3.2 - activeplugins option Code Execution Website : http://www.buayacorp.com/ Advisory: http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-mu-options-overwrite.html This exploit uses activeplugins option to execute arbitrary PHP / includeonce './class-snoopy.php'; // Fix Snoopy cla...