NTP Patches Flaws That Enable DDoS

The network time protocol, at the center of a number of high-profile DDoS attacks in 2014, was updated on Thursday to ntp-4.2.8p8. The latest version includes patches for five vulnerabilities, including one rated high-severity. NTP, specifically the NTP daemon, synchronizes system clocks with tim...

CVE-2016-4957

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via a crypto-NAK packet. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-1547...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1902

The nextBytes function in the SecureRandom class in Symfony before 2.3.37, 2.6.x before 2.6.13, and 2.7.x before 2.7.9 does not properly generate random numbers when used with PHP 5.x without the paragonie/randomcompat library and the opensslrandompseudobytes function fails, which makes it easier...

SUSE-SU-2016:1471-1 Security update for ntp

This update for ntp fixes the following issues: - Separate the creation of ntp.keys and key 1 in it to avoid problems when upgrading installations that have the file, but no key 1, which is needed e.g. by 'rcntp addserver'. - Update to 4.2.8p7 bsc977446: CVE-2016-1547, bsc977459: Validate...

Apple Hires Crypto Innovator Jon Callas

Jon Callas, equal parts security entrepreneur and innovator, has been hired at Apple for what will be his third stint with the company. Callas left Silent Circle, a company he cofounded, in April after four years there. Silent Circle designs and produces secure communication platforms, including...

Google Go Denial of Service Vulnerability

Google Go is a programming language optimized for programming applications on multiprocessor systems by Google. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Verify function in the crypto/dsa/dsa.go file in Google Go versions prior to 1.5.4 and 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.1, which stems from a...

AZL-79052 CVE-2016-3959 affecting package golang 1.25.7-1

The Verify function in crypto/dsa/dsa.go in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly check parameters passed to the big integer library, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a crafted public key to a program that uses HTTPS client...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3959

The Verify function in crypto/dsa/dsa.go in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly check parameters passed to the big integer library, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a crafted public key to a program that uses HTTPS client...

CVE-2016-3959

CVE-2016-3959 affects Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1. The Verify function in crypto/dsa/dsa.go does not properly validate parameters passed to the big integer library, potentially allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted public key in applicati...

CVE-2016-3959

The Verify function in crypto/dsa/dsa.go in Go before 1.5.4 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly check parameters passed to the big integer library, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a crafted public key to a program that uses HTTPS client...

mediawiki -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mediawiki reports: Security fixes: T122056: Old tokens are remaining valid within a new session T127114: Login throttle can be tricked using non-canonicalized usernames T123653: Cross-domain policy regexp is too narrow T123071: Incorrectly identifying http link in a's href attributes, due to m...

Master Decryption Key Released for TeslaCrypt Ransomware

The criminals behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware have closed up shop and publicly released the master decryption key that unlocks files encrypted by the malware. The news is significant given the investment and constant innovation devoted to TeslaCrypt, which has been one of the most active...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: botan-1.10.13-1.fc22

Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS \10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: botan-1.10.13-1.fc23

Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS \10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API...

Petya Ransomware Installs Mischa As Failsafe

The Petya ransomware strain signaled a new escalation for crypto-malware when it surfaced in March. For the first time, ransomware went beyond encrypting files on local and shared drives and instead set its sights on locking up the Master File Table on compromised machines. Petya did have its...

SUSE-SU-2016:1291-1 Security update for ntp

This update for ntp to 4.2.8p7 fixes the following issues: CVE-2016-1547, bsc977459: Validate crypto-NAKs, AKA: CRYPTO-NAK DoS. CVE-2016-1548, bsc977461: Interleave-pivot CVE-2016-1549, bsc977451: Sybil vulnerability: ephemeral association attack. CVE-2016-1550, bsc977464: Improve NTP security...

ntp: incomplete checks in ntp_crypto.c

It was found that the fix for CVE-2014-9750 was incomplete: three issues were found in the value length checks in NTP's ntpcrypto.c, where a packet with particular autokey operations that contained malicious data was not always being completely validated. A remote attacker could use a specially...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: botan-1.10.13-1.fc24

Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS \10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for Security (openSUSE-SU-2016:1211-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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 ifdescription...

Security update update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (important)

This update to Mozilla Firefox 46.0 fixes several security issues and bugs boo977333. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: - CVE-2016-2804: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 boo977373 - CVE-2016-2806: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards - MFSA 2016-39 boo977375 -...