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...

Google launching members-only security forum

internetnews.com’s Kenneth Corbin has the scoop on plans by Google to launch a members-only security forum for businesses, law enforcement, government agencies and others to combat malware and fraud on the Web. In addition to Google, the Internet Security Community will draw participation from...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: squidGuard-1.2.1-2.fc9

squidGuard can be used to - limit the web access for some users to a list of accepted/well known web servers and/or URLs only. - block access to some listed or blacklisted web servers and/or URLs for some users. - block access to URLs matching a list of regular expressions or words for some users...

CVE-2008-6109

The CVE-2008-6109 issue affects the Robin Rawson-Tetley Animal Shelter Manager (ASM) prior to version 2.2.2, where user privileges are not properly enforced. This enables local users to bypass access restrictions by (a) opening unspecified screens related to the so‑called “double click selector b...

Code injection

Microsoft Windows does not properly enforce the Autorun and NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry values, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code by 1 inserting CD-ROM media, 2 inserting DVD media, 3 connecting a USB device, and 4 connecting a Firewire device; 5 allows...

CVE-2008-4297

Mercurial before 1.0.2 does not enforce the allowpull permission setting for a pull operation from hgweb, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from a repository via an "hg pull" request...

CVE-2008-2246

Microsoft Windows Vista through SP1 and Server 2008 do not properly import the default IPsec policy from a Windows Server 2003 domain to a Windows Server 2008 domain, which prevents IPsec rules from being enforced and allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions...

GLSA-200803-27 : MoinMoin: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200803-27 MoinMoin: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered: A vulnerability exists in the file wikimacro.py because the macroGetval function does not properly enforce ACLs CVE-2008-1099. A directory...

CVE-2008-1099

macroGetval in wikimacro.py in MoinMoin 1.5.8 and earlier does not properly enforce ACLs, which allows remote attackers to read protected pages...

Integrity Clientless Security (ICS) Update 3.7.208.0

Check Point Integrity ™ Clientless Security ICS protects your Web site by detecting and disabling spyware processes and allowing you to enforce security policies before a user logs onto your network. Using ICS you can prevent users with potentially harmful software from accessing your Web site, a...

Integrity Clientless Security (ICS) Update 3.7.205.0

Check Point Integrity ™ Clientless Security ICS protects your Web site by detecting and disabling spyware processes and allowing you to enforce security policies before a user logs onto your network. Using ICS you can prevent users with potentially harmful software from accessing your Web site, a...

IPS-1 Protection Update - Authentication (v 15), DDOS (v 12), DHCP (v 8), Enterprise Software (v 2), Finger (v 10), FTP (v 23), IRC (v 13), LPD (v 11)

This advisory covers a set of protocol updates for the Authentication, DDOS, DHCP, Enterprise Software, Finger, FTP, IRC, and LPD protocol groups. The Authentication protocol group has been updated to ignore password strength tests for anonymous and guest users. Increased protocol compliance...

Integrity Clientless Security (ICS) Update 3.7.193.0

Check Point Integrity ™ Clientless Security ICS protects your Web site by detecting and disabling spyware processes and allowing you to enforce security policies before a user logs onto your network. Using ICS you can prevent users with potentially harmful software from accessing your Web site, a...

Authorization

TestLink before 1.7.1 does not enforce an unspecified authorization mechanism, which has unknown impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2007-6006

The CVE-2007-6006 entry concerns TestLink before version 1.7.1 that does not enforce an unspecified authorization mechanism. The impact and attack vectors are not explicitly defined in the provided documents; exploitation details are not provided. No concrete remediation or vendor/version specifi...

CVE-2007-5571

Cisco Firewall Services Module FWSM 3.16, and 3.22 and earlier, does not properly enforce edited ACLs, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on network traffic, aka CSCsj52536...

Design/Logic Flaw

Cisco Firewall Services Module FWSM 3.16, and 3.22 and earlier, does not properly enforce edited ACLs, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on network traffic, aka CSCsj52536...