Weak Early Random PRNG Threatens iOS 7 Kernel Mitigations

VANCOUVER – A revamped early random number generator in iOS 7 is weaker than its vulnerable predecessor and generates predictable outcomes. A researcher today at CanSecWest said an attacker could brute force the Early Random PRNG used by Apple in its mobile operating system to bypass a number of...

[Haveged 1.9.1] A simple entropy daemon

The haveged project is an attempt to provide an easy-to-use, unpredictable random number generator based upon an adaptation of the HAVEGE algorithm. Haveged was created to remedy low-entropy conditions in the Linux random device that can occur under some workloads, especially on headless servers...

Siemens Scalance X-200 Series Switches Insufficient Entropy Vulnerability

Siemens Scalance X-200 Series switches are prone to a vulnerability in the entropy of random number generator. Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : openssl vulnerabilities (USN-2079-1)

Anton Johansson discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain invalid TLS handshakes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-4353 Ron Barber discovered that OpenSSL used an incorrect data structure to obtain a version...

USN-2079-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Anton Johansson discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled certain invalid TLS handshakes. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2013-4353 Ron Barber discovered that OpenSSL used an incorrect data structure to obtain a version...

Siemens Fixes Authentication Bugs in Scalance X-200 Switches

Researchers have discovered two serious vulnerabilities in industrial Ethernet switches manufactured by Siemens that could enable attackers to perform unauthorized actions on the switches without authentication. One of the bugs allows attackers to hijack Web sessions and the other enables them to...

[Haveged] A simple Entropy Daemon

The haveged project is an attempt to provide an easy-to-use, unpredictable random number generator based upon an adaptation of the HAVEGE algorithm. Haveged was created to remedy low-entropy conditions in the Linux random device that can occur under some workloads, especially on headless servers...

[Pinpoint] Enumerates WebPage Components to help identify the Infected Files

Pinpoint works like wget/curl in that it just fetches a webpage without rendering any script. Pinpoint will then try to determine which links are used to make up the webpage such as Javascript, CSS, frames, and iframes and downloads those files too some Javascript content will produce incorrect...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2833-1] openssl security update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2833-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 01, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[Binwalk] Firmware Analysis Tool

Binwalk is a firmware analysis tool designed to assist in the analysis, extraction, and reverse engineering of firmware images and other binary blobs. It is simple to use, fully scriptable, and can be easily extended via custom signatures, extraction rules, and plugin modules. Binwalk supports...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2833-1] openssl security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2833-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 01, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-2833-1 openssl - several

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kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-371.3.1.0.1 - i386: fix MTRR code Zhenzhong Duan orabug 15862649 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use...

binwalk

Binwalk v3 This is an updated version of the Binwalk firmware...

MOXA EDR-G903 Series Multiple Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW This advisory provides mitigation details for vulnerabilities that impact Moxa EDR-G903 Series Routers. Independent researcher Neil Smith identified a hard-coded user account vulnerability and an insufficient entropy vulnerability in Moxa’s EDR-G903 series routers. By impersonating the...

Amazon Linux AMI : postgresql8 (ALAS-2013-244)

An array index error, leading to a heap-based out-of-bounds buffer read flaw, was found in the way PostgreSQL performed certain error processing using enumeration types. An unprivileged database user could issue a specially crafted SQL query that, when processed by the server component of the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql and postgresql84 on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131029)

An array index error, leading to a heap-based out-of-bounds buffer read flaw, was found in the way PostgreSQL performed certain error processing using enumeration types. An unprivileged database user could issue a specially crafted SQL query that, when processed by the server component of the...

postgresql, postgresql84 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1475 Updated postgresql and postgresql84 packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2013:1449-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2013:1449-01 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 under the ter...

[Binwalk v1.2.2] Firmware Analysis Tool

Binwalk is a firmware analysis tool designed to assist in the analysis, extraction, and reverse engineering of firmware images and other binary blobs. It is simple to use, fully scriptable, and can be easily extended via custom signatures, extraction rules, and plugin modules. Binwalk supports...