Inside the PlayStation 3 Exploit

The recent attack on the PlayStation 3 hypervisor has gotten a tremendous amount of attention, but there has not been much in the way of detailed analysis of the actual exploit itself. However, a prominent cryptographer and security researcher has looked at the exploit and found that it is a...

RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2010:0054-01

Check for the Version of openssl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2010:0054-01 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...

RHEL 5 : openssl (RHSA-2010:0054)

Updated openssl packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer SSL v2/v3 and Transport Layer...

CVE-2009-4212

Multiple integer underflows in the 1 AES and 2 RC4 decryption functionality in the crypto library in MIT Kerberos 5 aka krb5 1.3 through 1.6.3, and 1.7 before 1.7.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code by providing ciphertext with a...

CentOS 5 : openswan (CESA-2009:0402)

Updated openswan packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Openswan is a free implementation of Internet Protocol Security IPsec and Internet Key...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ntp (MDVSA-2009:309)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in ntp : Requesting peer information from a malicious remote time server may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution CVE-2009-0159. A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the ntpd daemon's NTPv4 authenticati...

Firefox 3.0.14 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 does not properly implement certain dialogs associated with the 1 pkcs11.addmodule and 2 pkcs11.deletemodule operations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into installing or removing an arbitrary PKCS11 module...

Martin Hellman on Soaring, Nuclear Weapons and Cryptography

Martin Hellman, the co-inventor of public key cryptography, uses his background in security and cryptography to bring insights to two seemingly unrelated issues: nuclear weapons and soaring...

Nate Lawson: Crypto Strikes Back!

This Google Tech Talk features researcher Nate Lawson discussing recent vulnerabilities in crypto libraries, why public key cryptography is like a Ford Pinto in a demolition derby and the password-hashing mess created by Web 2.0 sites...

Google Internet Summit 2009: Security Session

Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, moderates a panel of security experts, including Howard Schmidt, Steve Crocker, Chris DiBona and Eric Grosse, discussing a variety of security topics...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: openswan-2.6.21-5.fc11

Openswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: openswan-2.6.21-2.fc10

Openswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the...

New AES Attack, 200-Year-Old Cipher Key Big Week in Crypto

It’s been quite a week in the world of cryptography. For a field in which advancements are measured in the smallest of terms and major breakthroughs can take decades, the three big news stories involving cryptography in the last few days comprise an epochal event. Perhaps the most interesting of...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc ADV FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from ADV FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft...

Crypto flaws becoming a killer for Web applications

One of the few things that most people in the security community seem to agree on is that there is a dire need for better security around Web applications. That need begins with the lack of security training for most Web developers and extends through the inconsistent use of Web-application...

CVE-2009-1473

The 1 Windows and 2 Java client programs for the ATEN KH1516i IP KVM switch with firmware 1.0.063 and the KN9116 IP KVM switch with firmware 1.1.104 do not properly use RSA cryptography for a symmetric session-key negotiation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to a decrypt network traffi...

Input validation

The 1 Windows and 2 Java client programs for the ATEN KH1516i IP KVM switch with firmware 1.0.063 and the KN9116 IP KVM switch with firmware 1.1.104 do not properly use RSA cryptography for a symmetric session-key negotiation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to a decrypt network traffi...

CVE-2009-1473

The 1 Windows and 2 Java client programs for the ATEN KH1516i IP KVM switch with firmware 1.0.063 and the KN9116 IP KVM switch with firmware 1.1.104 do not properly use RSA cryptography for a symmetric session-key negotiation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to a decrypt network traffi...

CVE-2009-1473

The CVE-2009-1473 entry affects ATEN KH1516i (firmware 1.0.063) and KN9116 (firmware 1.1.104). The root cause is an insecure RSA-based handling of the symmetric session-key negotiation in the Windows/Java clients, enabling a remote attacker to decrypt traffic or perform MITM by replaying client-s...

NTP.org 'ntpd' Autokey Stack Overflow Vulnerability

NTP.org SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:ntp:ntp"; ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900652";...