Lavabit Case May Be One of Many in Coming Years

SAN FRANCISCO–The Lavabit case, which saw the secure email provider’s owner shut the company down after being forced to hand over to the government the encryption key that protected his users’ data, may seem like an extreme reaction to a unique situation. But, experts say it’s likely that there...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0108 Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2014:0108-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

SA-CONTRIB-2014-004 - Secure Cookie Data - Faulty Hashing

This module allows for storing data securely in a cookie through implementing the Secure Cookie Protocol. Ability to alter trusted data in the cookie The module did an incorrect comparison of the HMAC value, allowing a bypass of the HMAC verification which allows changing the cookie value. Known...

CVE-2013-6305

IBM Platform Symphony 5.2 before build 229037 and 6.1.0.1 before build 229073 uses the same credentials encryption key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging knowledge of this key...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Platform Symphony 5.2 before build 229037 and 6.1.0.1 before build 229073 uses the same credentials encryption key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging knowledge of this key...

CVE-2013-6305

CVE-2013-6305 affects IBM Platform Symphony 5.2 (before build 229037) and 6.1.0.1 (before build 229073). The root cause is reuse of the same credentials encryption key across different customers’ installations, enabling context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging kno...

PicketBox: Insecure storage of masked passwords

PicketBox, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform before 6.1.1, allows local users to obtain the admin encryption key by reading the Vault data file...

Apple iMessage Open to Man in the Middle, Spoofing Attacks

The Apple iMessage protocol has been shrouded in secrecy for years now, but a pair of security researchers have reverse-engineered the protocol and found that Apple controls the encryption key infrastructure for the system and therefore has the ability to read users’ text messages–or decrypt them...

PicketBox: Insecure storage of masked passwords

PicketBox, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform before 6.1.1, allows local users to obtain the admin encryption key by reading the Vault data file...

Code injection

The agent and task-agent components in Symantec Management Platform 7.0 and 7.1 before 7.1 SP2 Mp1.1v7 rollup, as used in certain Altiris products, use the same registry-entry encryption key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for local users to obtain sensitive...

CVE-2013-3625

An unspecified DLL file in Baramundi Management Suite 7.5 through 8.9 uses a hardcoded encryption key, which makes it easier for attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging knowledge of this key from a product installation elsewhere...

Hardcoded credentials

An unspecified DLL file in Baramundi Management Suite 7.5 through 8.9 uses a hardcoded encryption key, which makes it easier for attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging knowledge of this key from a product installation elsewhere...

CVE-2013-3625

CVE-2013-3625 affects Baramundi Management Suite versions 7.5–8.9. The vulnerability arises from a hard-coded encryption key stored in a DLL, enabling attackers who obtain the key from a product installation elsewhere to defeat cryptographic protections. Connected sources confirm the issue within...

Input validation

PicketBox, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform before 6.1.1, allows local users to obtain the admin encryption key by reading the Vault data file...

CVE-2013-1921

CVE-2013-1921 affects PicketBox data vault in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.1.x prior to 6.1.1. A local attacker can read the Vault data file and obtain the admin encryption key, exposing encrypted credentials. The issue is reported in multiple advisories (e.g., RHSA-2013:...

PicketBox: Insecure storage of masked passwords

PicketBox, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform before 6.1.1, allows local users to obtain the admin encryption key by reading the Vault data file...

PicketBox: Insecure storage of masked passwords

PicketBox, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform before 6.1.1, allows local users to obtain the admin encryption key by reading the Vault data file...

Cisco Unified Communications Manager multiple security vulnerabilities

Hardcoded encryption key, code execution, privilege escation, SQL injection...