Here's How Hackers Can Disrupt '911' Emergency System and Put Your Life at Risk

What would it take for hackers to significantly disrupt the US' 911 emergency call system? It only takes 6,000 Smartphones. Yes, you heard it right! According to new research published last week, a malicious attacker can leverage a botnet of infected smartphone devices located throughout the...

Vulnerability of Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers is related to the use of memory after it is freed. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code using a script, thereby shutting down services during an embedded...

The vulnerability of the Linter Bastion database management system allows a malicious individual to disrupt the normal operation of the database management system.

The RPC call with number 0x19 "0x0040D8F0" allows a malicious individual to alter the configuration of the kernel startup file of the Linter Bastion database management system, thereby potentially disrupting the normal operation of the database management system...

Command injection

The Bluetooth functionality in Lemur Vehicle Monitors BlueDriver before 2016-04-07 supports unrestricted pairing without a PIN, which allows remote attackers to send arbitrary CAN commands by leveraging access to a device inside or adjacent to the vehicle, as demonstrated by a CAN command to...

The vulnerability of the Cisco IOS operating system, which allows a intruder to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the Cisco IOS operating system is related to resource management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to cause service interruptions using a specially crafted SIP packet...

Cisco IOS XR SSH Link Termination Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco IOS XR is a member of the Cisco IOS software family and uses a microkernel-based distribution operating system architecture. A security vulnerability in Cisco IOS XR SSH handling allows a remote authenticated user to disconnect the SSH link making the vty unstable and subsequent SSH or Teln...

Microsoft .NET Framework Privilege Elevation Vulnerability (3057134)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS15-048. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Cisco ASR1000 Series Router Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Cisco ASR1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers provide a WAN edge solution that integrates information, communication, collaboration, and commerce. The Cisco ASR 1000 fails to properly handle routing neighbor announcements. an unauthenticated attacker sending malicious IP packets to the...

Obama Administration Seeks More Legal Power to Disrupt Botnets

The federal government is seeking more legal power to step in and shut down botnets through an amendment to the existing criminal law, which would allow the Department of Justice to obtain injunctions to disrupt these malicious networks. The Obama administration has proposed an amendment to...

A Call for Better Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure

For years our customers have been in the trenches against cyberattacks in an increasingly complex digital landscape. We’ve been there with you, as have others. And we aren’t going anywhere. Forces often seek to undermine and disrupt technology and people, attempting to weaken the very devices and...

Design/Logic Flaw

The netgetrandomonce implementation in net/core/utils.c in the Linux kernel 3.13.x and 3.14.x before 3.14.5 on certain Intel processors does not perform the intended slow-path operation to initialize random seeds, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof or disrupt IP communication by...

CVE-2014-7284

The netgetrandomonce implementation in net/core/utils.c in the Linux kernel 3.13.x and 3.14.x before 3.14.5 on certain Intel processors does not perform the intended slow-path operation to initialize random seeds, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof or disrupt IP communication by...

Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator <= 4.1.7, 4.7.2 (FTP) Remote Exploit

No description provided by source. / Cisco VPN Concentrator 3000 FTP remote exploit ============================================== A vulnerability exists in the Cisco VPN Concentrator 3000, an unauthenticated user may access the file system through manipulation of FTP service commands. An...

DSA-2703-1 subversion - several

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xpdf -- stack based buffer overflow

The KDE Team reports: kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a vulnerability that can cause a stack based buffer overflow via a PDF file that exploits an integer overflow in StreamPredictor::StreamPredictor. Remotely supplied pdf files can be used to disrupt the kpdf viewe...

akfingerd

The remote finger service appears to vulnerable to a remote attack which can disrupt the service of the finger daemon. This denial of service does not effect other services that may be running on the remote computer, only the finger service can be disrupted. akfingerd version 0.5 or earlier is...

CERN httpd CGI name heap overflow

It was possible to kill the remote web server by requesting GET /cgi-bin/A.AAAA...A HTTP/1.0 This is known to trigger a heap overflow in some servers like CERN HTTPD. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 Michel Arboi Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C...

CVE-1999-1403

The CVE-1999-1403 entry concerns IBM/Tivoli OPC Tracker Agent version 2 release 1, which creates files, directories, and IPC message queues with insecure permissions (world-readable and world-writable). This configuration could allow local users to disrupt operations and potentially gain privileg...

CVE-1999-1403

IBM/Tivoli OPC Tracker Agent version 2 release 1 creates files, directories, and IPC message queues with insecure permissions world-readable and world-writable, which could allow local users to disrupt operations and possibly gain privileges by modifying or deleting files...