Design/Logic Flaw

KDE KAuth before 5.55 allows the passing of parameters with arbitrary types to helpers running as root over DBus via DBusHelperProxy.cpp. Certain types can cause crashes, and trigger the decoding of arbitrary images with dynamically loaded plugins. In other words, KAuth unintentionally causes thi...

New Advanced Dynamic Scan Policy Template in Nessus 8

According to Nessus 8.1.0 release notes, Tenable finally solved the problem with Mixed Plugin groups. At least partially. I will briefly describe the problem. Let's say we found out that some Nessus plugins crash our target systems. This happens rarely, but it happens. So, we decided to disable...

John the Ripper 1.7.8-jumbo-7 Released

John the Ripper 1.7.8-jumbo-7 Released Change Log : Support for encrypted pkzip archives has been added, testing millions of candidate passwords per second. JimF This is in addition to WinZip/AES archives, support for which was added in prior -jumbo updates. Support for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion salted...