NIST Releases Secure Shell Guidance Document

NIST released a report yesterday urging enterprises, government agencies and other IT shops that rely on Secure Shell implementations to re-assess their deployments and be wary of a number of weaknesses plaguing those systems. Interagency Report 7966 is a guidance document that falls in line with...

Kernel: ALSA: control: protect user controls against races & memory disclosure

An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA implementation handled access of the user control's state. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory to user space...

Kernel: ALSA: control: do not access controls outside of protected regions

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA implementation handled user controls. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

Kernel: ALSA: control: use-after-free in replacing user controls

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA implementation handled user controls. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

Kernel: ALSA: control: use-after-free in replacing user controls

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA implementation handled user controls. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system...

Microsoft to Fix Broken Patch Tuesday Security Update

Microsoft is still hammering away at a fix for a security update released last week that caused a small number of computers to crash and blue screen. “We are aware of some issues related to the recent updates and we are working on a fix,” a Microsoft representative today told Threatpost. MS14-045...

August 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins, and the top priority is another cumulative update for Internet Explorer; this one patches 26 vulnerabilities, including one that’s been publicly reported, Microsoft said, and is likely being exploited. All of them are rated...

IE to Block Older ActiveX Controls, Starting with Java

Next week’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletins will not only bring nine new security bulletins but also an update to Internet Explorer that blocks outdated ActiveX controls, starting with Java. Notifications will flag the older ActiveX controls and users will have the option to update the...

Microsoft Releases EMET 5.0 Exploit Mitigation Tool

The latest version of Microsoft’s freely available stopgap against zero-day exploits was released today with two new exploit mitigations and a batch of new configuration options. The update to Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Tool kit, or EMET, comes six months after a technical preview...

Intel launches Hardware-based Self-Encrypting Solid State Drives

Data security is a big task for businesses as well as a challenge for IT leaders, whether it be securing networks or devices. Past few months, we often came across various data breaches, the largest among all was Target data breach, which cost a business nearly $50,000 in lost productivity,...

Advantech WebAccess bwocxrun ActiveX Control Installation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to install certain ActiveX controls without user interaction on vulnerable installations of Advantech WebAccess. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The...

Egresser - Tool to Enumerate Outbound Firewall Rules

Egresser is a tool to enumerate outbound firewall rules, designed for penetration testers to assess whether egress filtering is adequate from within a corporate network. Probing each TCP port in turn, the Egresser server will respond with the client’s source IP address and port, allowing the clie...

CVE-2013-7389

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-645 Router Rev. A1 with firmware before 1.04B11 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 deviceid parameter to parentalcontrols/bind.php, 2 RESULT parameter to info.php, or 3 receiver parameter to...

CVE-2013-7389

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-645 Router Rev. A1 with firmware before 1.04B11 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 deviceid parameter to parentalcontrols/bind.php, 2 RESULT parameter to info.php, or 3 receiver parameter to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4654

The sndctlelemadd function in sound/core/control.c in the ALSA control implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 does not check authorization for SNDRVCTLIOCTLELEMREPLACE commands, which allows local users to remove kernel controls and cause a denial of service use-after-free and system...

Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 Embedded OCX Control Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1714/info Due to a flaw in the method Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 handles OCX controls ActiveX containers in embedded in RTF email messages, it is possible to crash RTF-enabled email clients such as Microsoft Outlook...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - Multiple ActiveX Controls Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22288/info Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities because the application fails to handle exceptional conditions. These issues are triggered when an attacker entices a victim us...

Nokia Phoenix 2008.4.7 Service Software ActiveX Controls Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33726/info Nokia Phoenix Service Software ActiveX controls are prone to multiple buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because they fail to properly bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into insufficiently sized...

Netcraft Toolbar 1.8.1 - Remote Code Execution Exploit

No description provided by source. !-- Title: Netcraft Toolbar 1.8.1 Remote Code Execution Exploit Date: Nov 23, 2010 Author: Rew Email: rew splat leethax.info Link: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/install/Netcraft%20Toolbar.msi Version: 1.8.1 Tested on: WinXP - IE 6 CVE: NA 0day This object is NOT...

SCPOnly 2.3/2.4 SSH Environment Shell Escaping Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5526/info scponly is a freely available, open source restricted secure copy client. It is available for Unix and Linux operating systems. The default installation of scponly does not place sufficient access controls on th...