Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : kde4libs, kdelibs vulnerability (USN-833-1)

It was discovered that KDE did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. Note that Tenable...

USN-833-1: KDE-Libs vulnerability

It was discovered that KDE did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : qt4-x11 vulnerability (USN-829-1)

It was discovered that Qt did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. CVE-2009-2700. Not...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-809-1)

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...

openSUSE Security Update : libfreebl3 (libfreebl3-1201)

The Mozilla NSS security framework was updated to version 3.12.3.1. 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 Instant...

USN-818-1: curl vulnerability

Scott Cantor discovered that Curl did not correctly handle SSL certificates with zero bytes in the Common Name. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications...

Ubuntu USN-810-2 (fixed)

The remote host is missing an update to fixed announced via advisory USN-810-2. Original advisory details: 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...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : fetchmail vulnerability (USN-816-1)

Matthias Andree discovered that fetchmail did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the certificate name. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. Note that Tenable Network Securi...

USN-816-1: fetchmail vulnerability

Matthias Andree discovered that fetchmail did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the certificate name. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications...

USN-810-1: NSS vulnerabilities

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...

Compromise of SSL-protected communication — Mozilla

IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky reported a mismatch in the treatment of domain names in SSL certificates between SSL clients and the Certificate Authorities CA which issue server certificates. In particular, if a malicious person requested a certificate for a host name with an invalid...

CVE-2009-2407

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parsetag3packet function in fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving a crafted eCryptfs file, related to a...

Encrypted tunnels enable users to circumvent security controls

In the previous article, I talked a bit about how employees are using external proxies to hide web activity from the prying eyes of the IT department. This article discusses the use of encrypted tunnel applications to hide from detection. To someone like myself an admitted web 1.2 kinda guy, usin...

SquirrelMail: Multiple cross site scripting issues

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 and NaSMail before 1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving 1 certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decryptheaders.php; 2 PHPSELF; and 3 the que...

Encrypted passwords in osuser.xml

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-17317. panel We need to set a crypted password instead plain text password in java.naming.security.credentials within osuser.xml...

Encrypted passwords in osuser.xml

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-17317. panel We need to set a crypted password instead plain text password in java.naming.security.credentials within osuser.xml...

CVE-2009-1578

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 and NaSMail before 1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving 1 certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decryptheaders.php; 2 PHPSELF; and 3 the que...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 and NaSMail before 1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving 1 certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decryptheaders.php; 2 PHPSELF; and 3 the que...

CVE-2009-1578

CVE-2009-1578 affects SquirrelMail < 1.4.18 and NaSMail

How employees evade IT security controls

Prior to January of 2007, I had very little exposure to the vast array of applications that employees use while at work. Sure, I used IM, webmail and listened to music online, but I was being paid to do a job, not entertain myself. After joining Palo Alto Networks, and analyzing 18 months worth o...