PT-2016-6420

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PostgreSQL versions prior to 9.1.23 PostgreSQL versions 9.2.x prior to 9.2.18 PostgreSQL versions 9.3.x prior to 9.3.14 PostgreSQL versions 9.4.x prior to 9.4.9 PostgreSQL versions 9.5.x prior to 9.5.4 Description The issue allows remote...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3646-1 (postgresql-9.4 - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.4, a SQL database system. CVE-2016-5423 Karthikeyan Jambu Rajaraman discovered that nested CASE-WHEN expressions are not properly evaluated, potentially leading to a crash or allowing to disclose portions of server memory. CVE-2016-5424 Nath...

PostgreSQL -- Denial-of-Service and Code Injection Vulnerabilities

PostgreSQL project reports: Security Fixes nested CASE expressions + database and role names with embedded special characters CVE-2016-5423: certain nested CASE expressions can cause the server to crash. CVE-2016-5424: database and role names with embedded special characters can allow code...

Sophos Mobile Control 3.5.0.3 Open Reverse Proxy

Application: Sophos Mobile Control EAS Proxy Versions Affected: 3.5.0.3 Vendor URL: https://www.sophos.com/ Bugs: Open Reverse Proxy Sent: 30.06.2016 Reported: 05.07.2016 Vendor response: 13.07.2016 Published BugFix by vendor: 28.07.2016 Date of Public Advisory: 05.08.2016 Reference: Sophos Case...

Red Team Tool Roundup

In many cases Red Team tools are not written because someone feels like writing a tool, or wakes up one morning thinking, “I want to write a tool today”. Red Teamers generally identify tedious tasks in their methodology and then create tools that automate these tasks for current and future...

Yahoo Ordered to Explain Data Gathering Procedures in Deleted Email Case

Yahoo has been given until August 31 to comply with a court order asking how the company was able to recover emails that were presumed deleted. Yahoo’s policy guide claims it cannot recover emails from a user’s account that have been deleted but defense lawyers for a convicted U.K. drug trafficke...

Edward Snowden Designs an iPhone Case to Detect & Block Wireless Snooping

We just cannot imagine our lives without smartphones, even for a short while, and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden had not owned a smartphone since 2013 when he began leaking NSA documents that exposed the government's global surveillance program. Snowden fears that cellular signals of the...

Android Qualcomm component integer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2016-04809)

Android on Nexus 7 is an open source Linux-based operating system for the Nexus 7 smartphone developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Qualcomm is one of the Qualcomm components used in the Qualcomm devices. Qualcomm is a Qualcomm component used in one of Qualcomm's devices. An intege...

SUSE-SU-2016:1645-1 Security update for pam

This update for pam fixes two security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2015-3238: pamunix in conjunction with SELinux allowed for DoS attacks bsc934920. - CVE-2013-7041: Compare password hashes case-sensitively bsc854480. This non-security issue was fixed: - bsc962220: Don't fail...

The Pirate Bay Founder Ordered to Pay $395,000 Fine in Lawsuit he didn't even know about

One of the founders of notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been ordered to pay a fine worth nearly US$400,000 to several major record labels after their content was shared illegally via the platform. The penalty has been imposed on The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde by a court in...

General Purpose Fuzzer: Radamsa

Radamsa is a test case generator for robustness testing, a.k.a. a fuzzer. It is typically used to test how well a program can withstand malformed and potentially malicious inputs. It works by reading sample files of valid data and generating interestringly different outputs from them. The main...

EhTrace - Tool for Tracing Execution of Binaries on Windows

Eh'Trace pronounced ATrace is a binary tracing tool for Windows. Implemented in C but has some interesting properties that may make it suitable for tracing binaries when other methods are not sufficient, in particular EhTrace does not require changes to a binary to enable traces, despite being ab...

TCExam Information Disclosure Vulnerability

TCExam is an open source e-testing system.TCExam currently uses open source CBA software. TCExam has an information disclosure vulnerability that allows attackers to exploit the vulnerability to gain access to sensitive information...

Privacy Watchdogs Vow to Fight 'Dystopian' Rule 41

The Supreme Court is moving to expand the FBI’s hacking authority with Criminal Rule 41, an amendment to federal criminal procedures that makes it easier for the FBI to access computers remotely when their locations are unknown. Privacy watchdogs are blasting the proposed change saying it would...

Criminal Case - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Criminal Case published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Apple, Google Faced All Writs Act Orders

The American Civil Liberties Union has dug up more proof that from the get-go the FBI’s attempt to crack open an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook was not just about the one phone. The ACLU found court documents and on Wednesday published an interactive map visualizing...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : PAM vulnerabilities (USN-2935-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2935-1 advisory. It was discovered that the PAM pamuserdb module incorrectly used a case-insensitive method when comparing hashed passwords. A local attacker could possib...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2935-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Clarke: Precedent-Seeking FBI Won't Ask NSA to Unlock Phone

The National Security Agency’s silence in the Apple-FBI story is probably not so surprising. But that hasn’t stopped people from dragging the NSA’s name into the conversation. The latest to do so is Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism chair under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton...

Florida Sheriff threatens to Arrest 'Rascal' Tim Cook if He Doesn't Unlock the iPhone

The legal battle between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is turning ugly with each passing day. Apple is fighting with the federal authorities over iPhone encryption case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI requires Apple’s assistance to unlock an iPhone 5C belonging to San...