[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: openssh-6.4p1-4.fc20

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : curl vulnerability (USN-2058-1)

Marc Deslauriers discovered that libcurl incorrectly verified CN and SAN name fields when digital signature verification was disabled in the GnuTLS backend. When libcurl is being used in this uncommon way by specific applications, an attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle atta...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2048-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : curl vulnerability (USN-2048-1)

Scott Cantor discovered that libcurl incorrectly verified CN and SAN name fields when digital signature verification was disabled. When libcurl is being used in this uncommon way by specific applications, an attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive...

Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.04 : python3.3 vulnerabilities (USN-1985-1)

Florian Weimer discovered that Python incorrectly handled matching multiple wildcards in ssl certificate hostnames. An attacker could exploit this to cause Python to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-2099 Ryan Sleevi discovered that Python did not properly handle...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : python2.6 vulnerability (USN-1982-1)

Ryan Sleevi discovered that Python did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. Note that Tenable Network...

USN-1985-1: Python 3.3 vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered that Python incorrectly handled matching multiple wildcards in ssl certificate hostnames. An attacker could exploit this to cause Python to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-2099 Ryan Sleevi discovered that Python did not properly handle...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : pyopenssl vulnerability (USN-1965-1)

It was discovered that pyOpenSSL did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. Note that Tenable Network Securit...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1965-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

USN-1965-1: pyOpenSSL vulnerability

It was discovered that pyOpenSSL did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : php5 vulnerability (USN-1937-1)

It was discovered that PHP did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Israel's Verint Systems get a contract from Indian government for interception program

Soon in December this year, India's new surveillance program - Centralized Monitoring System CMS will be able to analyze all telecommunications and Internet communications in India by the government and its agencies. This means that everything we say or text over the phone, write, post or browse...

Israel's Verint Systems get a contract from Indian government for interception program

Soon in December this year, India’s new surveillance program - Centralized Monitoring System CMS will be able to analyze all telecommunications and Internet communications in India by the government and its agencies. This means that everything we say or text over the phone, write, post or browse...

Handling of Encryption, Tor Exposed in Leaked NSA Documents

New top-secret NSA documents released by the Guardian UK newspaper reveal that the United States’ top spy agency can retain encrypted communications for as long as it takes analysts to decrypt the secret messages—even if they’re collected by chance and without a warrant. In addition, the document...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gsi-openssh-6.1p1-5.fc19

SSH Secure SHell is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forward...

Fedora Update for gsi-openssh FEDORA-2013-5051

Check for the Version of gsi-openssh OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gsi-openssh FEDORA-2013-5051 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

Microsoft Windows IIS FTP Service Information Disclosure Vulnerability (2761226)

This host is missing a moderate security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS12-073. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodms12-073.nasl 5346 2017-02-19 08:43:11Z cfi $ Microsoft Windows IIS FTP Service Information Disclosure Vulnerability 2761226 Authors: Rachana Shetty Copyright: Copyright...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: ipmitool-1.8.11-7.fc15

This package contains a utility for interfacing with devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface specification. IPMI is an open standard for machine health, inventory, and remote power control. This utility can communicate with IPMI-enabled devices through either a kernel...

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google India's authorities are already forcing Research In Motion to grant access to the encrypted email and instant messages of its BlackBerry users, and now the government is pressuring Google and Skype too. Doesn't the...

ACAP Service STARTTLS Plaintext Command Injection

The remote ACAP service contains a software flaw in its STARTTLS implementation that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject commands during the plaintext protocol phase that will be executed during the ciphertext protocol phase. Successful exploitation could permit an attacker t...