[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: mingw-libgcrypt-1.6.3-1.fc21

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a Windows cross-compiled version of the library...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: mingw-libgcrypt-1.6.3-1.fc22

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a Windows cross-compiled version of the library...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the MySQL bug, OpenSSL and the House Crypto Hearing

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the post-RSA news, including the MySQL bug, the progress of the OpenSSL overhaul and the wildly entertaining House hearing on crypto backdoors. Download: digitalunderground200.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

New Spam Campaign Pushing CTB-Locker Ransomware

A new run of spam messages this week has been spotted dropping CTB-Locker ransomware. CTB-Locker, also known as Critroni, is a fairly new piece of crypto ransomware that encrypts hard drives and demands a ransom paid in Bitcoin to the attackers in exchange for the decryption key. Two days ago,...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the kdelibs3-crypto package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

The vulnerability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the rsyslog-crypto-7.4.7 package for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. Exploitation of this vulnerability can be carried out remotely...

The vulnerability of the CentOS operating system allows a malicious attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the rsyslog-crypto-7.4.7 package on the CentOS operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. Exploitation of this vulnerability can be carried out remotely...

New Utility Decrypts Files Lost to TeslaCrypt Ransomware

Crypto-ransomware variants have enterprises on edge because of the threat of irreversibly damaged files. Some organizations, including most recently the Tewksbury, Ma., police department have gone as far as to pay hundreds of dollars in ransom for the recovery key. Some technology companies are...

Second Crypto Bug in Networking Library Could Affect 25,000 Apps

A few weeks after the developers of the AFNetworking library that’s popular among iOS and OS X app developers patched a serious bug in the library that enabled man-in-the-middle attacks, another, similar flaw has surfaced. The new vulnerability is related to how the AFNetworking library handles...

CVE-2015-3331

The driverrfc4106decrypt function in arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intelglue.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3 does not properly determine the memory locations used for encrypted data, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-504.16.2 - infiniband core: Prevent integer overflow in ibumemget address arithmetic Doug Ledford 1181173 1179327 CVE-2014-8159 2.6.32-504.16.1 - fs gfs2: Move gfs2filesplicewrite outside of ifdef Robert S Peterson 1198329 1193559 - security keys: close race between key lookup and freeing...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3331

The driverrfc4106decrypt function in arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intelglue.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.3 does not properly determine the memory locations used for encrypted data, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and system crash or possibly...

stunnel crypto vulnerabilities

Entropy pools are reused if fork if used for threading...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-404 - infiniband core: Prevent integer overflow in ibumemget Doug Ledford 1179353 CVE-2014-8159 2.6.18-403 - s390 zcrypt: Toleration of new crypto hardware Hendrik Brueckner 1182522 - fs cifs: Use pid from cifsFileInfo in wrt pages/setfilesize Sachin Prabhu 1169304 - xen x86: confin...

ntp -- multiple vulnerabilities

ntp.org reports: Sec 2779 ntpd accepts unauthenticated packets with symmetric key crypto. Sec 2781 Authentication doesn't protect symmetric associations against DoS attacks...

Firefox 37 arrives with Opportunistic Encryption support

Mozilla has rolled out the latest Version 37 of its Firefox browser for Windows desktop, Mac, Linux and Android operating systems. The new release also adds patches for 13 different security advisories along with some new security improvements as well as user-experience features. The biggest...

TrueCrypt Audit Cryptanalysis Finds No Backdoors

The results are in from the cryptanalysis phase of the TrueCrypt audit, and they show—nothing. Well, maybe not “nothing,” but certainly no signs of a deliberate backdoor from the NSA or any government entity, fears of which date back to the autumn of 2013, post-Snowden, and ignited talk to have t...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the Android App-Replacement Vulnerability, Windows Privilege Escalation and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the news of the week, including the Android app-replacement vulnerability, the Windows privilege escalation bug and the Yahoo transparency report and the company’s crypto efforts. Download: digitalunderground192.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-229.1.2 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-229.1.2 - infiniband core: Prevent integer overflow in ibumemget address arithmetic Doug Ledford 1181177 1179347 CVE-2014-8159 3.10.0-229.1.1 - crypto testmgr: mark rfc4106gcmaes as fipsallowed Jarod Wilson 1197751 1185400 - virt...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2543-1)

Eric Windisch discovered flaw in how the Linux kernel's XFS file system replaces remote attributes. A local access with access to an XFS file system could exploit this flaw to escalate their privileges. CVE-2015-0274 A flaw was discovered in the automatic loading of modules in the crypto subsyste...