Dan Geer, In-Q-Tel

Anyone who has ever had a single conversation with Dan, or even seen him speak, will understand immediately why he’s on this list. Dan’s as smart as they come he has a Ph.D. in biostatistics! and his widely varied background gives him a truly unique perspective on security issues. His talks and...

DSA-1989-1 fuse - denial of service

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lxr -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg reports: There are several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in LXR. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute scripts in a user's browser, steal cookies associated with vulnerable domains, redirect the user to malicious websites, etc...

The All-Decade Interview Team

It occurred to me recently that I’ve been covering the security industry for just about 10 years. That’s a long time to be doing anything, and especially to be writing about one topic. But it’s hard to think of something that would have been much more interesting to cover this decade, given the...

Weatherford, Kaminsky: Top 2010 Security Issues

Mark Weatherford, CISO for California, and Dan Kaminsky, finder of last year’s DNS flaw, offer five security predictions for 2010. Read the full article. CSO...

Mozilla NSS NULL Character CA SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass

Exploit for unknown platform in category remote exploits ====================================================================================== Mozilla NSS NULL Character CA SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla NSS (ZYPP Patch Number 6541)

The Mozilla NSS security framework was updated to version 3.12.3.1. - Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger AIM, allows remote SSL...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : libfreebl3 (libfreebl3-6494)

The Mozilla NSS and dependend libraries were updated to fix various issues. CVE-2009-2404 / MFSA 2009-43 : Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Insta...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 1199)

The Mozilla NSS security framework was updated to version 3.12.3.1. - Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger AIM, allows remote SSL...

RHEL 3 : seamonkey (RHSA-2009:1432)

Updated SeaMonkey packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client,...

Stable Update: Security fixes

Google Chrome 2.0.172.43 has been released to the Stable channel to fix the security issues listed below. CVE-2009- 2935 Unauthorized memory read from Javascript A flaw in the V8 Javascript engine might allow specially-crafted Javascript on a web page to read unauthorized memory, bypassing securi...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1207

The remote host is missing updates to Netscape Portable Runtime NSPR and Network Security Services NSS announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1207. These updated packages upgrade NSS from the previous version, 3.12.2, to a prerelease of version 3.12.4. The version of NSPR has also been upgraded from 4.7...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-810-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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 ifdescription...

DNS BailiWicked Host Attack

This exploit attacks a fairly ubiquitous flaw in DNS implementations which Dan Kaminsky found and disclosed Jul 2008. This exploit caches a single malicious host entry into the target nameserver by sending random hostname queries to the target DNS server coupled with spoofed replies to those...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : nspr update (USN-810-2)

USN-810-1 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. This update provides the NSPR needed to use the new NSS. Moxie Marlinspike discovered that NSS did not properly handle regular expressions in certificate names. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted certificate to cause a denial of service via...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : nss vulnerabilities (USN-810-1)

Moxie Marlinspike discovered that NSS did not properly handle regular expressions in certificate names. A remote attacker could create a specially crafted certificate to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program. CVE-2009-2404 Moxie...

DNS BailiWicked Domain Attack

This exploit attacks a fairly ubiquitous flaw in DNS implementations which Dan Kaminsky found and disclosed Jul 2008. This exploit replaces the target domains nameserver entries in a vulnerable DNS cache server. This attack works by sending random hostname queries to the target DNS server coupled...

One Year Later: Dan Kaminsky on DNS Security Problems

From SearchSecurity Network security researcher Dan Kaminsky has had a year to reflect on the impact of the cache poisoning vulnerability he discovered in the Domain Name System DNS. Kaminsky revealed during last year’s Black Hat Briefings a technique that made it relatively easy to exploit the b...

Dan Geer: Risk management should change the future

By Joan Goodchild, CSO “The dean of the security deep thinkers,” “security luminary, ” and “risk-management pioneer” are all phrases that have been used to describe Dan Geer. Considered one of the foremost leaders in information security, his resume includes time as president and chief scientist ...

DNS vulnerabilities to attack the Ruby code-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

1 require 'msf/core' 2 require 'net/dns' 3 require 'scruby' 4 require 'resolv' 5 6 module Msf 7 8 class Auxiliary::Spoof::Dns::BaliWickedHost Msf::Auxiliary 9 1 0 The include Exploit::Remote::Ip 1 1 1 2 def initializeinfo = 1 3 superupdateinfoinfo, 1 4 'Name' = 'DNS BaliWicked Attack', 1 5...