kdebase security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0348 Updated kdebase packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Solaris Update Manager / Sun Patch Cluster Symlink Attack

Symlink attack with Solaris Update manager and Sun Patch Cluster Larry W. Cashdollar Vapid Labs http://vapid.dhs.org 1/24/2010 With the GUI Sun Update Manager being used to install patches on a system local users can easily run scripts and create symlinks in an attempt to clobber files and...

openSUSE Security Update : openssl-CVE-2009-4355.patch (openssl-CVE-2009-4355.patch-1833)

Incorrect use of an openssl cleanup function can lead to memory leaks in applications. For example an ssl enabled web server such as apache that uses php, curl and openssl leaks memory if a SIGHUP signal was sent to apache. The openssl cleanup function was made more robust to avoid memory leaks...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4355

Memory leak in the zlibstatefulfinish function in crypto/comp/czlib.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8l and earlier and 1.0.0 Beta through Beta 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via vectors that trigger incorrect calls to the CRYPTOcleanupallexdata function, as demonstrate...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: chmsee-1.0.1-14.fc11

A gtk2 chm document viewer. It uses chmlib to extract files. It uses gecko to display pages. It supports displaying multilingual pages due to gecko. It features bookmarks and tabs. The tabs could be used to jump inside the chm file conveniently. Its UI is clean and handy, also is well localized. ...

smb-psexec NSE Script

Implements remote process execution similar to the Sysinternals' psexec tool, allowing a user to run a series of programs on a remote machine and read the output. This is great for gathering information about servers, running the same tool on a range of system, or even installing a backdoor on a...

kernel: O_EXCL creates on NFSv4 are broken

NFSv4 in the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, does not properly clean up an inode when an OEXCL create fails, which causes files to be created with insecure settings such as setuid bits, and possibly allows local users to gain privileges, related to the execution of the...

Comcast Alerts Customers to PC Infections

CNet’s Elinor Mills has the scoop on a Comcast trial of a new automated service that will warn broadband customers of possible virus infections, if the computers are behaving as if they have been compromised by malware. For instance, a significant overnight spike in traffic being sent from a...

CVE-2009-3286

NFSv4 in the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, does not properly clean up an inode when an OEXCL create fails, which causes files to be created with insecure settings such as setuid bits, and possibly allows local users to gain privileges, related to the execution of the...

Fedora 9 : phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1-1.fc9 (2009-7337)

The first security release for phpMyAdmin 3.2.0: - security XSS: Insufficient output sanitizing in bookmarks This version contains a number of small new features and some bug fixes: - core better support for vendor customisation based on what Debian needs - rfe warn when session.gcmaxlifetime is...

Zen Cart 1.3.8 Remote SQL Execution Exploit

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications =========================================== Zen Cart 1.3.8 Remote SQL Execution Exploit =========================================== !/usr/bin/python ------- Zen Cart 1.3.8 Remote SQL Execution http://www.zen-cart.com/ Zen Cart Ecommerce -...

What's the cost of fixing an application vulnerability?

From DarkReading Kelly Jackson Higgins The cleanup cost for fixing a bug in a homegrown Web application ranges anywhere from $400 to $4,000 to repair, depending on the vulnerability and the way it’s fixed. Security experts traditionally have been hesitant to calculate the actual cost associated...

Pentagon spent $100 million on cybersecurity fixes

From Cnet Elinor Mills The security of U.S. networks is in such disarray that the Pentagon has spent $100 million in the last six months alone to repair damage done by cyber attacks. That huge number presumably includes cleaning up after external attacks, viruses and internal problems. Experts sa...

Serv-U7 provide the right experience Essentials-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Since the author is lazy, does not provide log cleanup feature, it will leave a log: One, the su7 is the right there are several? There are two forms to get rid of su7 in. 1, login to the Administrator Console page ==get the OrganizationId for Add User ==get the global user of the“next new user I...

kernel: sctp: Fix oops when INIT-ACK indicates that peer doesn't support AUTH

sctp in Linux kernel before 2.6.25.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service OOPS via an INIT-ACK that states the peer does not support AUTH, which causes the sctpprocessinit function to clean up active transports and triggers the OOPS when the T1-Init timer expires...

“Cocktail”therapy to deal with the variety of Trojan hybrid intrusion-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Here is a quote of the“cocktail”therapy is a medical term, refers to the physician while using the a variety of anti-viral drugs to deal with AIDS. For a computer virus to a single tool in particular is very well-known tool is very easy to be viral as against the target without losing effect, it'...

CVE-2008-5810

WBPublish aka WBPublish.exe in Fujitsu-Siemens WebTransactions 7.0, 7.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in input that is sent through HTTP and improperly used during temporary session data cleanup, possibly related to 1...

serv-u7 local exploit (php)-bug warning-the black bar safety net

by emptiness prodigal heart http://www.inbreak.net Note: since the author is lazy, does not provide log cleanup feature, it will leave a log: A, The su7 is the right there are several way? There are two forms to get rid of su7 in. 1, login to the Administrator Console page ==get the OrganizationI...

Fonality trixbox 2.6.1 - langChoice Remote Code Execution (Python)

Fonality trixbox 2.6.1 - langChoice Remote Code Execution Python !/usr/bin/python TrixBox 2.6.1 langChoice remote root exploit muts from offensive-security.com All credits to Jean-Michel BESNARD Same same, but different. http://www.offensive-security.com/0day/trixbox.py.txt id uid=0root gid=0root...

USN-589-1: unzip vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that unzip did not correctly clean up pointers. If a user or automated service was tricked into processing a specially crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...