Tor Users Hit With Firefox Exploit, But No Large Compromise of Network Seen

The vulnerability in Firefox that was being used to exploit some users of Tor in recent days was fixed in a previous Firefox release and the exploit in circulation only works against people running Firefox 17. Over the weekend, word spread that the exploit was in the wild and that the Tor network...

Royal Baby Spam Campaign Leads to Black Hole-Infected Site

Everyone loves babies, especially magical royal ones who are destined to pull a sword from a stone. As it turns out, the baby admiring demographic also includes spammers, who are using the current frenzy over the birth of Prince William and Duchess Kate’s baby boy to direct victims to a site...

[slackware-security] ruby (SSA:2013-178-01)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 slackware-security ruby SSA:2013-178-01 New ruby packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-17.0.7esr-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

Slackware 13.37 / 14.0 / current : mozilla-firefox (SSA:2013-180-01)

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2013-180-01. The text itself is...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CTreeNode Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Oracle Java KeyStore SecurityManager Bypass Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CEventObj Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Oracle Java IntegerComponentRaster Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Oracle Java ByteComponentRaster Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Oracle Java AWT Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the AWT mlib library...

Oracle Java Sequencer Security Manager Bypass Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CTreePos Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CSelectionInteractButtonBehavior Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Oracle Java Runtime Environment AWT mediaLib Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within AWT mediaLib. The...

Microsoft Internet Explorer SmartDispClient Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Oracle Java AWT Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the AWT mlib library...

Oracle Java CMMImageLayout Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the CMMImageLayout...

Slackware 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / current : curl (SSA:2013-174-01)

New curl packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2013-174-01. The tex...

Apple QuickTime stsd Atom Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple QuickTime. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...