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[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: python-pillow-2.0.0-16.gitd1c6db8.fc19
Python image processing library, fork of the Python Imaging Library PIL This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image processing capabilities. There are five subpackages: tk tk interface, qt PIL image wrapper for Qt , sane scanning...
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: python-pillow-2.2.1-7.fc20
Python image processing library, fork of the Python Imaging Library PIL This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image processing capabilities. There are five subpackages: tk tk interface, qt PIL image wrapper for Qt , sane scanning...
Paper: NetFlow Data De-Anonymizes Tor Users
Tor Project leaders are trying to rein in concerns about an academic paper describing an end-to-end traffic correlation attack that could be used by a well-funded attacker such as a nation state to de-anonymize traffic on Tor. Executive director Roger Dingledine points out that the researchers...
Sandworm APT Team Found Using Windows Zero Day Vulnerability
UPDATE–A cyberespionage team, possibly based in Russia, has been using a Windows zero day vulnerability to target a variety of organizations in several countries, including the United States, Poland, Ukraine and western Europe. The vulnerability, which will be patched today by Microsoft, is...
Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2014-368)
arch/x86/kernel/entry32.S in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 on 32-bit x86 platforms, when syscall auditing is enabled and the sep CPU feature flag is set, allows local users to cause a denial of service OOPS and system crash via an invalid syscall number, as demonstrated by number 1000. Array...
Apple Pay: A New Way to Pay
Every September, Apple announces exciting new products that promise to change how we interact with not only our devices, but with the world around us. 2014 has been no exception; in San Francisco this morning, Apple announced the iPhone 6, Apple Watch and Apple Pay. Even though Im excited about t...
Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilities
Updated kernel-tmb provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value CVE-2014-020...
Dan Geer: Security at the Forefront of Policy Decisions
LAS VEGAS – Dan Geer carried his version of computer security’s Ten Commandments to a rapt Black Hat 2014 audience today, offering up 10 personal recommendations and observations related to the current state of security in the context of government surveillance and eroding privacy. Adorned in...
POWELIKS — A Persistent Windows Malware Without Any Installer File
Malware is nothing but a malicious files which is stored on an infected computer system in order to damage the system or steal sensitive data from it or perform other malicious activities. But security researchers have uncovered a new and sophisticated piece of malware that infects systems and...
WordPress 2.0 - 3.0.1 wp-includes/capabilities.php Remote Authenticated Administrator Delete Action Bypass
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Medium: kernel
Issue Overview: arch/x86/kernel/entry32.S in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 on 32-bit x86 platforms, when syscall auditing is enabled and the sep CPU feature flag is set, allows local users to cause a denial of service OOPS and system crash via an invalid syscall number, as demonstrated by numbe...
kernel 2.2.x/2.4 .0-test1,SGI ProPack 1.2/1.3 Capabilities Vulnerability (2)
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1322/info POSIX Capabilities have recently been implemented in the Linux kernel. These Capabilities are an additional form of privilege control to enable more specific control over what priviliged processes can do...
PoPToP PPTP <= 1.1.4-b3 Remote Root Exploit (poptop-sane.c)
No description provided by source. / Fixed Exploit against PoPToP in Linux poptop-sane.c ./r4nc0rwh0r3 of blightninjas [email protected] blightninjas: bringing pain, suffering, and humiliation to the security world Expect more great release like helloworld-annotated.c and cd explained...
Linux Kernel 2.6.34+ - CAP_SYS_ADMIN x86 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
No description provided by source. / Linux Kernel CAPSYSADMIN to root exploit by Dan Rosenberg @djrbliss on twitter Usage: gcc -w caps-to-root.c -o caps-to-root sudo setcap capsysadmin+ep caps-to-root ./caps-to-root This exploit is NOT stable: It only works on 32-bit x86 machines It only works on...
Flowerfire Sawmill 5.0.21 Weak Password Encryption Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1403/info Sawmill is a site statistics package for Unix, Windows and Mac OS. Passwords are encrypted using a weak hash function. This combined with the file disclosure vulnerability in Sawmill bid = 1402 could allow an...
DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4014
The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with grou...
CVE-2014-4014
The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with grou...
UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4014
The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with grou...
Versatility of Zeus Framework Encourages Criminal Innovation
A new report on the Zeus trojan’s evolution shows that the malware was moved from harvesting online banking credentials to controlling botnets and launching distributed denial of service attacks attributes the evolution to the highly customized and incredibly versatile framework Zeus is today...
MGASA-2014-0251 Updated libcap-ng packages fix CVE-2014-3215
Updated libcap-ng packages fix security vulnerability: capnglock in libcap-ng before 0.7.4 sets securebits in an attempt to prevent regaining capabilities using setuid-root programs. This allows a user to run setuid programs, such as seunshare from policycoreutils, as uid 0 but without...