Sophos Web Appliance 4.2.1.3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Sophos Web Appliance version 4.2.1.3 suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability. An unprivileged user can obtain an MD5 hash of the administrator password which can then be used to discover the plain-text password. Title: Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation Advisory ID: KL-001-2016-0...

RedHat Update for libreswan RHSA-2016:2603-02

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...

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...

Sophos Web Appliance Privilege Escalation

Vulnerability Details Affected Vendor: Sophos Affected Product: Web Apppliance Affected Version: v4.2.1.3 Platform: Embedded Linux CWE Classification: CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials, CWE-261: Weak Cryptography for Passwords Impact: Privilege Escalation Attack vector: HTTP 2...

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives RSA Private Key Disclosure Vulnerability

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives IPP is a suite of programming tools for working with images, signal processing, and data from Intel Corporation.Cryptography is one of the encryption technologies.... A security vulnerability exists in Intel IPP Cryptography versions prior to 9.0.4. A local...

Researchers Demonstrated How NSA Broke Trillions of Encrypted Connections

In the year 2014, we came to know about the NSA's ability to break Trillions of encrypted connections by exploiting common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm – thanks to classified documents leaked by ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden. At that time, computer scientists and...

CVE-2016-8100

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives aka IPP Cryptography before 9.0.4 makes it easier for local users to discover RSA private keys via a side-channel attack...

CVE-2016-8100

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives aka IPP Cryptography before 9.0.4 makes it easier for local users to discover RSA private keys via a side-channel attack...

CVE-2016-8100

Intel IPP Cryptography before 9.0.4 is vulnerable to a local-side-channel attack that enables discovery of RSA private keys. Affected product: Intel IPP Cryptography (part of IPP) prior to version 9.0.4. Root cause: information leaked through a side channel allowing a local attacker to recover th...

CVE-2016-8100: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives aka IPP Cryptography before 9.0.4 makes it easier for local users to discover RSA private keys via a side-channel attack...

Open Source Distributed Secure Skype Alternative: Tox Messenger

Open Source Distributed Secure Skype Alternative Distributed FOSS secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities Tox began a few years ago, in the wake of Edward Snowden’s leaks regarding NSA spying activity. The idea was to create an instant messaging protocol that ran without any kind ...

Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS)

Overview Cryptography API: Next Generation CNG contains an issue in BCryptDecrypt, which may result in a denial-of-service DoS. ASHINO, Yuki of NEC Corporation reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact...

JVN#20786316: Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS)

Cryptography API: Next Generation CNG contains an issue in BCryptDecrypt, which may result in a denial-of-service DoS. Impact If CNG processes a specially crafted key data, the product may be terminated abnormally. Solution Upgrade Windows According to the developer, CNG included in Windows 8 and...

Debian DSA-3688-1 : nss - security update (Logjam) (SLOTH)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in NSS, the cryptography library developed by the Mozilla project. - CVE-2015-4000 David Adrian et al. reported that it may be feasible to attack Diffie-Hellman-based cipher suites in certain circumstances, compromising the confidentiality and integrity of...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3688-1] nss security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3688-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer October 05, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-3688-1 nss - security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3688-1 (nss - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in NSS, the cryptography library developed by the Mozilla project. CVE-2015-4000 David Adrian et al. reported that it may be feasible to attack Diffie-Hellman-based cipher suites in certain circumstances, compromising the confidentiality and integrity of da...

Cloud, IoT Big Factors in Annual BSIMM 7 Report

Bad software equals insecure software, and companies don’t have to accept this status quo. That’s both the takeaway and goal of Cigital’s seventh annual Building Security in Maturity Model report released Tuesday. The report reveals that the cloud, application containers, and agile software...

A vulnerability in Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) Cryptography allows local users to recover the RSA private key via a potential side-channel.

Summary: The cryptography CP domain in Intel’s newest version of Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives Intel® IPP v2017 has been enhanced to improve its security and customers are strongly urged to update to this release. Description: A potential side-channel vulnerability was identified in th...

Mozilla Reduces Threat of Export-Grade Crypto to Firefox

Logjam was one of several downgrade attacks discovered in the last 18 months that could theoretically allow a resourced attacker to take advantage of lingering export-grade cryptography to read and modify data over a supposedly secure connection. While the severity of this particular attack again...