CVE-2017-2909

An infinite loop programming error exists in the DNS server functionality of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8 library. A specially crafted DNS request can cause an infinite loop resulting in high CPU usage and Denial Of Service. An attacker can send a packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability...

CVE-2017-2909

CVE-2017-2909 affects Cesanta Mongoose 6.8 library’s DNS server functionality. A crafted DNS query/response can trigger an infinite loop in DNS name compression handling, causing high CPU usage and a Denial of Service when sent over the network. Connected advisories describe the issue but do not ...

Cesanta Mongoose DNS Query Compressed Name Pointer Denial Of Service

Summary An infinite loop programming error exists in the DNS server functionality of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8 library. A specially crafted DNS request can cause an infinite loop resulting in high CPU usage and Denial Of Service. An attacker can send a packet over network to trigger this vulnerability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: check-mk-1.2.8p26-1.fc25

check-mk is a general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data. It adopts a new approach for collecting data from operating systems and network compone nts. It obsoletes NRPE, checkbyssh, NSClient, and checksnmp and it has many benefits, the most important are a significant reduction of CPU usag...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: check-mk-1.2.8p26-1.fc26

check-mk is a general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data. It adopts a new approach for collecting data from operating systems and network compone nts. It obsoletes NRPE, checkbyssh, NSClient, and checksnmp and it has many benefits, the most important are a significant reduction of CPU usag...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-nodejs4-nodejs security and bug fix update

An update for rh-nodejs4, rh-nodejs4-node-gyp, and rh-nodejs4-nodejs is now available for Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

CVE-2017-15596

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.4.x through 4.9.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service prevent physical CPU usage because of lock mishandling upon detection of an add-to-physmap error...

Product update: Virtuozzo Automator 7.0 Update 2 Hotfix 3 (VA MN: 7.0.2-510, VA Agent: 7.0.2-258)

This hotfix for Virtuozzo Automator 7.0.2 provides new features as well as stability and usability bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PVA-34527 Alert reason would not be shown on clicking the alert icon on the virtual environment or hardware node summary page if the corresponding event had already been...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: check-mk-1.2.8p26-1.fc27

check-mk is a general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data. It adopts a new approach for collecting data from operating systems and network compone nts. It obsoletes NRPE, checkbyssh, NSClient, and checksnmp and it has many benefits, the most important are a significant reduction of CPU usag...

The scrypt parameters

The recommended scrypt parameters in the Go docs were recently brought up for discussion given they haven't changed since 2009. Even if at this point I memorized the three numbers N=16384, r=8, p=1 I only have a vague understanding of their meaning, so I took some time to read the scrypt paper...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- OpenSSH Denial of Service vulnerability (6ed5c5e3-a840-11e7-b5af-a4badb2f4699)

There is no limit on the password length. Impact : A remote attacker may be able to cause an affected SSH server to use excessive amount of CPU by sending very long passwords, when PasswordAuthentication is enabled by the system administrator. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Code injection

The DNS packet parser in YADIFA before 2.2.6 does not check for the presence of infinite pointer loops, and thus it is possible to force it to enter an infinite loop. This can cause high CPU usage and makes the server unresponsive...

CVE-2017-14339

The DNS packet parser in YADIFA before 2.2.6 does not check for the presence of infinite pointer loops, and thus it is possible to force it to enter an infinite loop. This can cause high CPU usage and makes the server unresponsive...

CVE-2017-14339

The DNS packet parser in YADIFA before 2.2.6 does not check for the presence of infinite pointer loops, and thus it is possible to force it to enter an infinite loop. This can cause high CPU usage and makes the server unresponsive...

CVE-2017-14339

The DNS packet parser in YADIFA before 2.2.6 does not check for the presence of infinite pointer loops, and thus it is possible to force it to enter an infinite loop. This can cause high CPU usage and makes the server unresponsive...

CVE-2017-14339

YADIFA DNS server (versions before 2.2.6) is affected by CVE-2017-14339 due to a DNS packet parser that does not detect infinite pointer loops, enabling an attacker to cause an infinite loop with high CPU usage and a non-responsive server. The issue is resolved in 2.2.6; affected systems should u...

Pirate Bay Spotted Hosting Monero Cryptocurrency Miner

A cryptocurrency miner surfaced on the world’s largest torrenting site for a day over the weekend, raising the ire of users unaware the tool was there, let alone leveraging their machine’s computing power. Users noticed the miner Friday night on The Pirate Bay, a site that acts as a treasure trov...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Apache cxf-core is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The attack can be triggered if the attacker sends a content-disposition value containing more than 50000 characters, leading to high CPU usage in the application...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14223

In libavformat/asfdecf.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in asfbuildsimpleindex due to lack of an EOF End of File check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted ASF file, which claims a large "ict" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the for loop would...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14222

In libavformat/mov.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3, a DoS in readtfra due to lack of an EOF End of File check might cause huge CPU and memory consumption. When a crafted MOV file, which claims a large "itemcount" field in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loop would...