Behind the Scenes of The Crypto Project

When a small group of activists announced the debut of The Crypto Project earlier this year, for many, ahem, mature, security and privacy advocates it brought to mind memories of the original cypherpunk movement that began in the 1990s and that group’s seminal efforts to encourage the use of stro...

PHP 5.3.8 Released, Fixes Crypto Bug

A day after warning users about a serious bug in the cryptographic function in PHP 5.3.7 and telling them not to upgrade to that release, the maintainers of the scripting language pushed out version 5.3.8, which fixes the crypto problem as well as another security related issue. PHP 5.3.7, which...

Serious Crypto Bug Found in PHP 5.3.7

The maintainers of the PHP scripting language are warning users about a serious crypto problem in the latest release and advising them not to upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 until the bug is resolved. PHP 5.3.7 was just released last week and that version contained fixes for a slew of security...

CentOS Update for xmlsec1 CESA-2011:0486 centos4 i386

Check for the Version of xmlsec1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for xmlsec1 CESA-2011:0486 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

CentOS Update for xmlsec1 CESA-2011:0486 centos4 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-131.6.1.el6 - audit ia32entry.S sign extend error codes when calling 64 bit code Eric Paris 713831 703935 - audit push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h Eric Paris 713831 703935 - x86 intel-iommu: Flush unmaps at domainexit Alex Williamson 713458 705441 - x86 intel-iommu: Only...

CVE-2011-0766

The random number generator in the Crypto application before 2.0.2.2, and SSH before 2.0.5, as used in the Erlang/OTP ssh library before R14B03, uses predictable seeds based on the current time, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess DSA host and SSH session keys...

CVE-2011-0766

The random number generator in the Crypto application before 2.0.2.2, and SSH before 2.0.5, as used in the Erlang/OTP ssh library before R14B03, uses predictable seeds based on the current time, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess DSA host and SSH session keys...

Code injection

The random number generator in the Crypto application before 2.0.2.2, and SSH before 2.0.5, as used in the Erlang/OTP ssh library before R14B03, uses predictable seeds based on the current time, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess DSA host and SSH session keys...

CVE-2011-0766

The random number generator in the Crypto application before 2.0.2.2, and SSH before 2.0.5, as used in the Erlang/OTP ssh library before R14B03, uses predictable seeds based on the current time, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess DSA host and SSH session keys...

CVE-2011-0766

The random number generator in the Crypto application before 2.0.2.2, and SSH before 2.0.5, as used in the Erlang/OTP ssh library before R14B03, uses predictable seeds based on the current time, which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess DSA host and SSH session keys...

CVE-2011-0766

CVE-2011-0766 affects the Crypto application (before 2.0.2.2) and SSH (before 2.0.5) as used by the Erlang/OTP SSH library before R14B03. The root cause is the use of predictable seeds based on the current time for the random number generator, enabling remote attackers to guess DSA host and SSH s...

PT-2011-2617 · Ericsson · Erlang/Otp

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Crypto application versions prior to 2.0.2.2 SSH versions prior to 2.0.5 Erlang/OTP ssh library versions prior to R14B03 Description: The random number generator uses predictable seeds based on the current time, making it easier for remote...

RedHat Update for xmlsec1 RHSA-2011:0486-01

Check for the Version of xmlsec1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for xmlsec1 RHSA-2011:0486-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

CentOS 4 / 5 : xmlsec1 (CESA-2011:0486)

Updated xmlsec1 packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

krb5 security update

1.8.2-3.4 - add upstream patches to fix standalone kpropd exiting if the per-client child process exits with an error, and hang or crash in the KDC when using the LDAP kdb backend CVE-2010-4022, CVE-2011-0281, CVE-2011-0282, 671101 1.8.2-3.3 - pull up crypto changes made between 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 t...

ASP.NET Hack

There were a lot of excellent talks at conferences this year, but perhaps the most interesting and far-reaching presentation was one given by researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo at Ekoparty on a crypto attack against ASP.NET applications. The “padding oracle” attack that the pair implemented...

Experts: OpenBSD Backdoor Allegations 'Almost Certainly False'

The incredible allegations that developers working under the auspices of the FBI and Justice Department planted a backdoor in the IPSec stack of the OpenBSD operating system are likely just that, experts say: not credible. “There is no way that the FBI paid anyone to create backdoors in OpenBSD a...

Fedora Update for pam_mount FEDORA-2010-12950

Check for the Version of pammount OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pammount FEDORA-2010-12950 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3864

Multiple race conditions in ssl/t1lib.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8f through 0.9.8o, 1.0.0, and 1.0.0a, when multi-threading and internal caching are enabled on a TLS server, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via client data that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to 1 the T...