CVE-2016-10153

The crypto scatterlist API in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIGVMAPSTACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging reliance on earlier...

Alvosec: Alvocrypt uses a cryptographically insecure PRNG.

Dear Alvosec bug bounty team, Summary --- A PRNG is an algorithm used to produce random-looking numbers with certain desirable statistical properties. In order for a PRNG to be cryptographically secure it must be resistant to prediction. The generatepass function in Alvocrypt currently uses...

On How Trump Will Affect Crypto and Security, SHA-1, WhatsApp, and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook discuss security-wise what they hope will and won’t change under a Trump presidency, then discuss the news of the week, including SHA-1 deprecation, Carbanak’s return, and the WhatsApp “backdoor” debacle. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJanuary202017.mp3 Music...

Null pointer dereference

crypto/mcryptd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash by using an AFALG socket with an incompatible algorithm, as demonstrated by mcryptdmd5...

[ASA-201701-25] python2-crypto: arbitrary code execution

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201701-25 ========================================== Severity: Critical Date : 2017-01-15 CVE-ID : CVE-2013-7459 Package : python2-crypto Type : arbitrary code execution Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-118 Summary ======= The package...

[SECURITY] [DLA 773-4] python-crypto update

Package : python-crypto Version : 2.6-4+deb7u7 The previous security updates for python-crypto DLA-773-1, DLA-773-2 & DLA-773-3 were not available on non-amd64 architectures. This was due to the testsuite failing to exit gracefully when "multiprocessing" based tests were not functioning or...

DLA-773-4 python-crypto - update

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Authentication flaw

An off-path attacker can cause a preemptible client association to be demobilized in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 by sending a crypto NAK packet to a victim client with a spoofed source address of an existing associated peer. This is true even if...

CVE-2016-1547

An off-path attacker can cause a preemptible client association to be demobilized in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 by sending a crypto NAK packet to a victim client with a spoofed source address of an existing associated peer. This is true even if...

CVE-2016-1547

An off-path attacker can cause a preemptible client association to be demobilized in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 by sending a crypto NAK packet to a victim client with a spoofed source address of an existing associated peer. This is true even if...

[SECURITY] [DLA 773-3] python-crypto regression update

Package : python-crypto Version : 2.6-4+deb7u6 CVE ID : CVE-2013-7459 Debian Bug : 849495, 850025, 850077 It was discovered that the previous attempt to fix the regression in python-crypto, a cryptographic algorithms and protocols for Python, was incorrect. This regression was initially introduce...

DLA-773-3 python-crypto - regression update

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[SECURITY] [DLA 773-2] python-crypto regression update

Package : python-crypto Version : 2.6-4+deb7u5 CVE ID : CVE-2013-7459 Debian Bug : 849495, 850025, 850077 It was discovered that there was a regression in the recent update to python-crypto, a cryptographic algorithms and protocols for Python. We now raise a warning not an error on invalid input ...

DLA-773-2 python-crypto - regression update

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Debian DLA-773-4 : python-crypto update

The previous security updates for python-crypto DLA-773-1, DLA-773-2 & DLA-773-3 were not available on non-amd64 architectures. This was due to the testsuite failing to exit gracefully when 'multiprocessing' based tests were not functioning or available, such as on the Debian buildd network. For...

CVE-2016-10099

Borg aka BorgBackup before 1.0.9 has a flaw in the cryptographic protocol used to authenticate the manifest list of archives, potentially allowing an attacker to spoof the list of archives...

So you want to expose Go on the Internet

I was asked to contribute a post to the excellent Gopher Academy advent series. I took the occasion to write down what I learned deploying a Go service on the Cloudflare edge. The result is a catalogue of what you need to know before you drop NGINX from in front of your Go server. The net/http pa...

[SECURITY] [DLA 773-1] python-crypto security update

Package : python-crypto Version : 2.6-4+deb7u4 CVE ID : CVE-2013-7459 Debian Bug : 849495 It was discovered that there was a vulnerability in python-crypto, a library of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for Python. Calling AES.new with an invalid parameter could crash the Python interpreter...

DLA-773-1 python-crypto - security update

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Unspecified Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

Apache httpd is the U.S. Apache Apache Software Foundation, an open source HTTP server developed and maintained specifically for modern operating systems. A security vulnerability exists in Apache httpd, which stems from the program's failure to properly parse HTTP headers. A remote attacker coul...