Authentication flaw

Bad reference counting in the context of accepticeconnection in gsm-xsmp-server.c in old versions of gnome-session up until version 2.29.92 allows a local attacker to establish ICE connections to gnome-session with invalid authentication data an invalid magic cookie. Each failed authentication...

My first working week with Opera Reborn

So, last Monday I changed my Chrome to the new Opera. It was an experiment to feel how is it “really” different from Chrome. I should mention before writing this post two important things about my background: 1. I was an Opera user since 2003 to 2010 and then moved to Chrome because of the many...

Samba 'fd_open_atomic infinite loop' DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2017-9461)

Samba is prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:samba:samba";...

CVE-2017-9461

smbd in Samba before 4.4.10 and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 has a denial of service vulnerability fdopenatomic infinite loop with high CPU usage and memory consumption due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks...

Denial of service

smbd in Samba before 4.4.10 and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 has a denial of service vulnerability fdopenatomic infinite loop with high CPU usage and memory consumption due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks...

CVE-2017-9461

smbd in Samba before 4.4.10 and 4.5.x before 4.5.6 has a denial of service vulnerability fdopenatomic infinite loop with high CPU usage and memory consumption due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks...

May 9, 2017—KB4019473 (OS Build 10586.916)

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CVE-2017-1000361

DOMRpcImplementationNotAvailableException when sending Port-Status packets to OpenDaylight. Controller launches exceptions and consumes more CPU resources. Component: OpenDaylight is vulnerable to this flaw. Version: The tested versions are OpenDaylight 3.3 and 4.0...

OpenJDK: incomplete XML parse tree size enforcement (JAXP, 8169011)

It was found that the JAXP component of OpenJDK failed to correctly enforce parse tree size limits when parsing XML document. An attacker able to make a Java application parse a specially crafted XML document could use this flaw to make it consume an excessive amount of CPU and memory...

April 18, 2017—KB4015553 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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CVE-2017-2669

Dovecot before version 2.2.29 is vulnerable to a denial of service. When 'dict' passdb and userdb were used for user authentication, the username sent by the IMAP/POP3 client was sent through varexpand to perform %variable expansion. Sending specially crafted %variable fields could result in...

BSA-2017-201

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-201 Component : OpenSSL Revision : 1.0: Interim It was found that function "ssl3readbytes" inssl/s3pkt.c might lead to higher CPU usage due to improper handling of warning packets.An attacker could repeat the undefined plaintext warning packets of "SSL3ALWARNING"...

CVE-2017-6444

The MikroTik Router hAP Lite 6.25 has no protection mechanism for unsolicited TCP ACK packets in the case of a fast network connection, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by sending many ACK packets. After the attacker stops the exploit, the CPU usage is 10...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

ImageMagick is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. A malicious user can pass a malicious vicar file that can cause excessive CPU usage that can lead to running out of resources and crashing...

Restoration of HA Backups on Standalone NetScaler MAS Fails at Restoring of the Database

The restoration of the NetScaler MAS backup fails at restoring of the Database as shown in the following screen shot: This will stay at this point and will not continue. Checking process using top or ps commands will show low CPU usage, which indicates that the restore process has stopped. The...

Linux Kernel 3.10.0 (CentOS7) Denial Of Service Exploit

CentOS7 suffers from a kernel crashing denial of service issue triggered by an rsyslog daemon vulnerability. Exploit Title: CentOS7 Kernel Crashing by rsyslog daemon vulnerability | DOS on CentOS7 Exploit Author: Hosein Askari FarazPajohan Vendor HomePage: https://www.centos.org/ Version : 7 Test...

Linux Kernel 3.10.0 (CentOS 7) - Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 3.10.0 CentOS 7 - Denial of Service / Exploit Title: CentOS7 Kernel Crashing by rsyslog daemon vulnerability | DOS on CentOS7 Exploit Author: Hosein Askari FarazPajohan Vendor HomePage: https://www.centos.org/ Version : 7 Tested on: Parrot OS Date: 12-2-2017 Category: Operating Syste...

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers IOS XE SNMP DoS Vulnerability

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services router with Cisco IOS XE Software is prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

CVE-2017-3820

A vulnerability in Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP functions of Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.13.6S, 3.16.2S, or 3.17.1S could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU usage on an affected device, resulting in a...

CVE-2017-3820

CVE-2017-3820 affects Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running Cisco IOS XE (releases 3.13.6S, 3.16.2S, or 3.17.1S). The vulnerability arises from an incorrect initialized variable in SNMP handling, allowing an authenticated, remote attacker to trigger high CPU usage and DoS via...