Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security update

Updated openssl packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

CentOS 6 / 7 : openssl (CESA-2015:0066)

Updated OpenSSL packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

RHEL 6 / 7 : openssl (RHSA-2015:0066)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0066 advisory. OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL, Transport Layer Security TLS, and Datagram Transport Layer Security...

openssl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0066 Updated openssl packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

NSA Official: Support for Compromised Dual EC Algorithm Was 'Regrettable'

In a new article in an academic math journal, the NSA’s former director of research says that the agency’s decision not to withdraw its support of the Dual ECDRBG random number generator after security researchers found weaknesses in it and questioned its provenance was a “regrettable” choice...

CVE-2014-5386: Undefined Security Weakness

The mcryptcreateiv function in hphp/runtime/ext/mcrypt/extmcrypt.cpp in Facebook HipHop Virtual Machine HHVM before 3.3.0 does not seed the random number generator, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging the use of a single...

Quantum Encryption Makes Credit Cards Fraud-Proof

Credit card frauds are very common these days – today a data breach occurs in retailer’s shop, online shopping site or banking site and at the next moment millions of cards appears in the underground black market – how simple is that for cyber criminals nowadays. But imagine if there is no possib...

GCHQ Releases 'Cryptoy' App for Kids to Teach Encryption

British government surveillance agency GCHQ – counterpart of NSA – has fired-up another debate over the Internet by launching Android application to encourage teenagers to tackle emerging cybersecurity threats. The newly launched Android app, dubbed "Cryptoy", was developed by STEM science,...

SSL-TLS Implementations Cipher Block Chaining Padding Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in certain implementations of the TLSv1 protocol could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information. The vulnerability is due to improper block cipher padding implemented in TLSv1 when using Cipher Block Chaining CBC mode. An attacker could exploit the...

Windows Kerberos - Elevation of Privilege (MS14-068) Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits !/usr/bin/python MS14-068 Exploit Author ------ Sylvain Monne Contact : sylvain dot monne at solucom dot fr http://twitter.com/bidord import sys, os from random import getrandbits from time import time, localtime, strftime from kek.ccache...

USN-2427-1 libksba vulnerability

Hanno Böck discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled certain S/MIME messages or ECC based OpenPGP data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnutls (MDVSA-2014:215)

Updated gnutls package fix security vulnerability : An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed certain ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography certificates or certificate signing requests CSR. A malicious user could create a specially crafted ECC certificate or a certificate...

Parrot Security OS - Friendly OS designed for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, Privacy/Anonimity and Cryptography

Parrot Security OS is a cloud friendly operating system designed for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, privacy/anonimity and cryptography. Based on Debian and developed by Frozenbox network. Who can use it Parrot is designed for everyone, from the Pro...

CoinVault Ransomware Betting on Hope with Free File Decrypt

UPDATE: A prior version of this story incorrectly defined VSS as vulnerability scanning systems when in fact it refers to volume shadow copy service, which is a Windows automatic data backup and recovery mechanism. Thanks to commenter Rudy for pointing this out. The courteous CoinVault ransomware...

CentOS Update for gnutls CESA-2014:1846 centos7

Check the version of gnutls SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882080";...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gnutls on SL7.x x86_64 (20141112)

An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed certain ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography certificates or certificate signing requests CSR. A malicious user could create a specially crafted ECC certificate or a certificate signing request that, when processed by an application...

gnutls: Heap corruption when generating key ID for ECC (GNUTLS-SA-2014-5)

An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed certain ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography certificates or certificate signing requests CSR. A malicious user could create a specially crafted ECC certificate or a certificate signing request that, when processed by an application...

PT-2014-1866

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GnuTLS versions 3.1.x through 3.1.27 GnuTLS versions 3.2.x through 3.2.19 GnuTLS versions 3.3.x through 3.3.9 Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a crafted Elliptic Curve...

ZeroNights 2014: запретных тем нет

ZeroNights 2014: запретных тем нет До старта конференции ZeroNights 2014 остается совсем немного времени. Скоро площадка для встречи специалистов-практиков по ИБ, исследователей, программистов, звезд хакерского мира, да и просто хороших друзей и знакомых откроет свои двери навстречу новому. В это...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssh on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20141014)

It was discovered that OpenSSH clients did not correctly verify DNS SSHFP records. A malicious server could use this flaw to force a connecting client to skip the DNS SSHFP record check and require the user to perform manual host verification of the DNS SSHFP record. CVE-2014-2653 It was found th...