DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4396

Use-after-free vulnerability in the doImageText function in dix/dixfonts.c in the xorg-server module before 1.14.4 in X.Org X11 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service daemon crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ImageText request that triggers...

CVE-2013-4257

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2013-4256. Reason: This issue was MERGED into CVE-2013-4256 because it is the same type of vulnerability. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2013-4256 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this...

Pinterest Announces Support for DNT Header

Pinterest is the latest major Internet service to support Do Not Track. The social site, which allows its users to organize items of interest, made the announcement on Friday in a note that explained how it was going to suggest personalized pins based on websites the user has visited and placed a...

JDK: Unspecified security fixes (July 2013)

The com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.ClientDelegate class in IBM Java 1.4.2 before 1.4.2 SR13-FP18, 5.0 before 5.0 SR16-FP3, 6 before 6 SR14, 6.0.1 before 6.0.1 SR6, and 7 before 7 SR5 improperly exposes the invoke method of the java.lang.reflect.Method class, which allows remote attackers to call...

Galapagos Browser vulnerable in the WebView class

Overview Galapagos Browser is a web browser for Android devices. Galapagos Browser contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early...

PT-2013-3582

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 6 kernel package versions prior to 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 Description The issue is related to a problem in the do filp open function in fs/namei.c, where failure to obtain write permissions is not handled properly...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2081

Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not consider "don't send" attributes during hub registration, which allows remote hubs to obtain sensitive site information by reading form data...

Mozilla Delays Third-Party Cookie Patch in Firefox

Mozilla has tapped the brakes on its plans to block third-party cookies by default in the Firefox browser. Test versions of Firefox 22, scheduled for a June release, were supposed to include a patch that blocked third-party cookie drops by default. However, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich said yesterday...

Firefox 21 Launches with 3 critical fixes and new Social Integrations

Mozilla has launched Firefox 21 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, adding a number of improvements, namely to the browser's Social API. "Today, we are adding multiple new social providers Cliqz, Mixi and msnNOW to Firefox," wrote Mozilla in a blog post today. The browser first added Facebook integratio...

Firefox 21 Update Patches 8 Vulnerabilities, 3 Critical

Mozilla fixed eight vulnerabilities, three critical, in the 21st build of its flagship Firefox browser yesterday. One of the fixes remedies an Address Sanitizer memory corruption flaw MFSA 2013-48 that could’ve allowed remote code execution. The other two critical flaws could’ve also led to...

Firefox 21 Launches with 3 critical fixes and new Social Integrations

Mozilla has launched Firefox 21 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, adding a number of improvements, namely to the browser's Social API. "Today, we are adding multiple new social providers Cliqz, Mixi and msnNOW to Firefox," wrote Mozilla in a blog post today. The browser first added Facebook integratio...

PT-2013-1188

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions krb5-server versions 1.10.3 krb5-devel versions 1.10.3 krb5-pkinit-openssl versions 1.10.3 krb5-debuginfo versions 1.10.3 krb5-workstation versions 1.10.3 krb5-server-ldap versions 1.10.3 krb5-libs versions 1.10.3 mit-krb5 versions prior to...

PT-2013-3455

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions 389 Directory Server versions 1.2.x through 1.2.11.19 389 Directory Server versions 1.3.x through 1.3.0.4 Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information outside of the rootDSE via a crafted LDAP search, due to th...

How To: Chrome Browser Privacy Settings

youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9hbsfEbaw The Web browser is the primary portal through which the vast majority of connected users access and interact with the Internet. Each browser has its own security and privacy settings and those settings have an enormous impact on the nature of the...

PT-2013-1013

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.6 Description The issue exists due to the lack of initialization of certain structures for IP VS SO GET TIMEOUT commands in the do ip vs get ctl function. This allows local users to obtain sensitive information...

PT-2013-2134

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xen version 4.2.x Description The issue allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service by leveraging administrative access to an HVM guest in a domain with a large number of VCPUs, resulting in long-duration page mappings and host OS crash...

CPOs Challenged with Meeting Privacy Expectations and Maintaining Full User Experience

SAN FRANCISCO – People who interact with online services have mounting privacy expectations that run in parallel with their need for a full experience with the functionality central to those services. But can users have their privacy cake and eat it too? That’s the challenging question facing...

dhcp security and bug fix update

12:4.1.1-34.P1.0.1.el6 - Added oracle-errwarn-message.patch 12:4.1.1-34.P1 - Reducing the expiration time for an IPv6 lease may cause the server to crash CVE-2012-3955, 858130 12:4.1.1-33.P1 - Use getifaddrs for interface discovery code on Linux 803540 - dhclient-script: do not backup&restore...

FTC Endorses New Privacy Guidelines, Do Not Track for Mobile Apps, Devices

Hoping to ramp up privacy on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the Federal Trade Commission FTC has released a series of suggestions to help app developers, advertising networks and device companies better protect their users online. As it’s done over the last two years with browser...

PT-2013-1876

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MoinMoin versions 1.9.3 through 1.9.5 Description The issue allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in a file name, due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the do attachment move function in the AttachFile...