Terahertz Millimeter-Wave Scanners

Interesting article on terahertz millimeter-wave scanners and their uses to detect terrorist bombers. The heart of the device is a block of electronics about the size of a 1990s tower personal computer. It comes housed in a musician's black case, akin to the one Spinal Tap might use on tour. At t...

Timing Attack

passport-local-mongoose is vulnerable to timing attack. The attack exists because password comparison function does not use a secure constant time comparison, allowing the attacker to guess the password...

x.chip.de Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-680499 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| x.chip.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| Open Redirect / CWE-601 CVSSv3 Score:| 3.4...

Apache Mesos Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apache Mesos is the United States Apache Apache Software Foundation of a set of support for Hadoop, ElasticSearch and Spark and other application architecture of open source cluster management software. A security vulnerability exists in the comparison of the HMAC values generated in Apache Mesos...

End of support for Office 2016 and Office 2019

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Comparison of Open Source Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed If you liked my older post titled "List of Adversary Emulation Tools", I am sure you must want to know what is the difference or comparison between the different tools. This post is an attempt to do just that -to list down the comparison of open source adversary emulation tools...

CVE-2018-9363

A buffer overflow due to a singed-unsigned comparsion was found in hidpprocessreport in the net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c in the Linux kernel. The buffer length is an unsigned int but gets cast to a signed int which in certain conditions can lead to a system panic and a denial-of-service...

Timing Attacks

Stripe.net is vulnerable to timing attacks. The vulnerability exists due to the usage of non-constant time comparison methods, which causes information to be revealed through different time taken when comparing signatures...

Wayland wl_connection_demarshal() Out-Of-Bounds Memory Access

Wayland: out-of-bounds memory access in wlconnectiondemarshal on 32-bit systems In wlconnectiondemarshal, incoming strings are parsed as follows: // audit note: length is a u32 // audit note: p points to raw incoming u32 length = p++; if length == 0 closure-argsi.s = NULL; break; // audit note:...

Timing Attack

BCrypt.Net-Core is vulnerable to timing attacks. The library does not compare the password hash in constant time, allowing a malicious user to use the timing of the request to progressively identify a valid hash...

Remote Security Bypass

libcurl.so is vulnerable to remote security bypass attacks. The vulnerability exists due to a flaw of case insensitive password comparisons such that an attacker with the correct case insensitive password would be authorized...

SUSE-SU-2018:2165-1 Security update for polkit

This update for polkit fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2018-1116: Fix uid comparison lacking in polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization bsc1099031...

SUSE-SU-2018:2163-1 Security update for polkit

This update for polkit fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2018-1116: Fix uid comparison lacking in polkitbackendinteractiveauthoritycheckauthorization bsc1099031...

CVE-2016-8616

A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped...

CVE-2016-8616

A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped...

CVE-2016-8616

CVE-2016-8616 affects curl prior to 7.51.0. When re-using a connection, curl performed case-insensitive comparisons of the username and password against existing connections, enabling an attacker who knows the case-insensitive form of the correct password to cause reuse of an unused connection wi...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2624

It was found that xorg-x11-server before 1.19.0 including uses memcmp to check the received MIT cookie against a series of valid cookies. If the cookie is correct, it is allowed to attach to the Xorg session. Since most memcmp implementations return after an invalid byte is seen, this causes a ti...

Ruby: OpenSSL::X509::Name Equality Check Does Not Work, Patch included

When two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==, depending on the ordering, non-equal objects will return true. When the first argument is one character longer than the second, or the second argument contains a character that is one less than a character in the same position of the fir...

Debian DLA-1408-1 : simplesamlphp security update

CVE-2017-12872 / CVE-2017-12868 The 1 Htpasswd authentication source in the authcrypt module and 2 SimpleSAMLSession class in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to conduct timing side-channel attacks by leveraging use of the standard comparison operator to compare secret...

5 Key Factors to Consider When Comparing Cloud Security Solutions [Video]

Migrating to the cloud can be a challenge, and so can securing your platform once you’re there. It means having a security solution that is quick, adaptable and equipped to handle a wider breadth of attacks. Whether you’re in the market for a new security product, or you’re looking to switch, the...