MySQL CREATE FUNCTION Table Arbitrary Library Injection (CVE-2005-0710)

MySQL is an open-source implementation of a relational database management system supporting the SQL Structured Query Language database query language. MySQL allows users to create user-defined functions UDF through the CREATE FUNCTION command. A vulnerability exists in the user-defined function...

Nigeria Moving to Shut Down Scammers

It turns out Nigeria is taking measures to fight Internet scams—law enforcement there has shut down close to a thousand websites and made 18 arrests as part of a new initiative to save the nation’s reputation and crack down on Internet scammers. The program, called “Project Eagle Claw,” has only...

Free COFEE Helps Law Enforcement Forensics

Microsoft has announced plans to give away free versions of its COFEE Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor utility to help law enforcement agencies in cyber-crime investigations. COFEE uses digital forensic technologies to help investigators gather evidence of live computer activity at the...

Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:277 (samba)

The remote host is missing an update to samba announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:277. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: mdksa2009277.nasl 6573 2017-07-06 13:10:50Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory MDVSA-2009:277 samba Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft Inc...

PT-2009-2791 · Microsoft · .Net Framework

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft .NET Framework versions 2.0 through 3.5 Description: A remote code execution issue exists due to the improper enforcement of a type-equality constraint in .NET verifiable code. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2009-3568: Undefined Security Weakness

Comment RSS 5.x before 5.x-2.2 and 6.x before 6.x-2.2, a module for Drupal, does not properly enforce permissions when a link is added to the RSS feed, which allows remote attackers to obtain the node title and possibly other sensitive content by reading the feed...

Stephen Toulouse on the MSRC, the Evolution of Security at Microsoft and Securing Xbox Live

Dennis Fisher talks with Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live at Microsoft, about his years at the Microsoft Security Response Center, the evolution of security at Microsoft and the joy and pain of being the bad guy on Xbox Live. Download Subscribe to the Digital...

Hacking Services On the Rise

The last couple of years have seen a dramatic rise in the number and quality of malware-as-a-service and hacking-as-a-service providers, with many of them advertising their services on the Web. And while law enforcement officials are well aware of the problem, they’re not having much luck in...

CVE-2009-2208

FreeBSD 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, and 7.2 does not enforce permissions on the SIOCSIFINFOIN6 IOCTL, which allows local users to modify or disable IPv6 network interfaces, as demonstrated by modifying the MTU...

FBI, US Marshals hit by mystery malware

From the Associated Press Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department’s computers as a protective...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.kronofogden.se

Security researcher DellNull, has submitted on 15/05/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.kronofogden.se, which at the time of submission ranked 159295 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 03/07/2009. It is...

Forensic experts fuse technology, intelligence for investigations

From The New York Times John Markoff The small cadre of experts who spend their time doing the meticulous, painstaking work of tracing cyber attacks is increasingly relying on a combination of advanced technical tools and old-fashioned intelligence-gathering techniques to track down the people an...

CVE-2009-0579

Linux-PAM before 1.0.4 does not enforce the minimum password age MINDAYS as specified in /etc/shadow, which allows local users to bypass intended security policy and change their passwords sooner than specified...

Radical steps are needed to fix Internet security

The Internet as we know it today was designed to be a place where people could go about their business, whatever it happened to be, anonymously and without interference from other users. This model worked reasonably well for a long time, but it’s become painfully clear in recent months that some...

Security is about outcomes, not about process

By Adam Shostack, Emergent Chaos Nearly a decade ago Bruce Schneier wrote “Security is a process, not a product.” His statement helped us advance as a profession, but with the benefit of hindsight, we can see he’s only half right. Security isn’t about technology. Security is about outcomes, and o...

Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Theo de Raadt reported that the application does not properly drop privileges to the primary groups of the user specified via the "User" configuration optio...

How the economy is hurting security

From Purdue University’s CERIAS The economic crisis has affected virtually every facet of society, and information security is no exception. In a new report titled Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information, researchers from Purdue University’s CERIAS security center lay out the fairly ble...

CVE-2009-1078

Sun Java System Identity Manager IdM 7.0 through 8.0 does not enforce the expected privilege requirements for 1 deleting audit policies and 2 modifying workflows, which allows remote authenticated users to have an unspecified impact...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - fix percpu api bugon wit...

USN-727-2: NetworkManager vulnerability

USN-727-1 fixed vulnerabilities in network-manager-applet. This advisory provides the corresponding updates for NetworkManager. It was discovered that NetworkManager did not properly enforce permissions when responding to dbus requests. A local user could perform dbus queries to view system and...