Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL3.x i386/x86_64

a flaw in the ISDN CAPI subsystem that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service or potential privilege escalation. CVE-2007-1217, Moderate - a flaw in the Bluetooth subsystem that allowed a local user to trigger an information leak. CVE-2007-1353, Low In addition to the security issues...

Scientific Linux Security Update : squirrelmail on SL4.x, SL5.x (20120208)

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the way SquirrelMail performed the sanitization of HTML style tag content. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIME...

Fedora 17 : kernel-3.3.2-8.fc17 (2012-6344)

Fixes CVEs : CVE-2012-2119 CVE-2012-2123 CVE-2012-2121 Also fixes some fail to boot issues on various Dell machines. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format...

Free Configuration Check Tool by eEye Digital Security

Free Configuration Check Tool by eEye Digital Security eEye Digital Security, the industry's leading innovator of threat management solutions, just released new research, "Working Toward Configuration Best Practices" . Findings verify that proper configuration and mitigations remain the most...

Privacy Fail: Is Uncle Sam Encouraging Bad Security?

CANCUN, MEXICO – A prominent privacy activist says that leading software vendors, and the U.S. government are failing the public when it comes to Internet privacy, and that big changes are needed to prevent consumers from criminals, advertisers and government spies. Christopher Soghoian, a...

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the "Year of the Hack" or "Epic Fail 2011". Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for...

CVE-2010-4852

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in login.php in Eclime 1.1.2b allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the reason parameter in a fail action...

CVE-2010-4852

CVE-2010-4852 affects Eclime 1.1.2b, where login.php’s reason parameter is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) due to insufficient input sanitization. Exploitation could cause arbitrary script/HTML execution in a user’s browser. Concrete details across connected records confirm the vulnerabl...

fuse: unprivileged user can unmount arbitrary locations via symlink attack

fuse 2.8.5 and earlier does not properly handle when /etc/mtab cannot be updated, which allows local users to unmount arbitrary directories via a symlink attack...

Chrome's Fail Folder

There’s something very retro about the “fail folder,” Google’s go-to image, which pops up on the Chrome Web browser every time you, say, lose your Internet connection. It’s colorless and two dimensional and its size and shape not so subtly recall the beloved GUI of early vintage Macs. Google made...

Google Books Whale Fail

Some years ago – never mind how long precisely– having little or no money in our pocket and nothing particular to interest us online, we went in search of some digitized copyright-free reading material, only to run smack into Google’s stylized, Eric-Carle inspired Whale Fail page. It tasks me! It...

Tumblr's Tumbeasts

Blogging site Tumblr recently made news with the introduction of its custom Tumbeasts cartoon, which received favorable write ups on Mashable.com and – wait for it – CNN when it was introduced earlier this month. The Tumbeasts, depicted ravaging Tumblr’s data center, were the creation of Oatmeal...

AOL Lifestream's Fail Bunny

The thing about the Twitter Fail Whale was that it was just so darned festive looking that you could hardly find it in yourself to be angry at Twitter for crashing yet again. AOL seems to be playing up the “we’re too cute to be mad at” angle big time for Lifestream, a social network aggregation...

Welcome to the Zoo

Everybody knows the Twitter Fail Whale, but Twitter’s hardly the only flaky Web service out there, and the Fail Whale is just one creature in a whole Fail menagerie that’s sprung up in recent years to soothe hacked off Web users. Check out Threatpost’s Fail Zoo: a collection of the strangest fail...

UBUNTU-CVE-2010-3192

Certain run-time memory protection mechanisms in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 print argv0 and backtrace information, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by executing an incorrect program, as demonstrated by a setuid program tha...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-10:03.zfs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-10:03.zfs Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: ZFS ZIL playback with insecure permissions Category: contrib Module: zfs Announced: 2010-01-06 Credits: Paw...

Zabbix Server/Agent Detection (TCP)

TCP based detection of the ZABBIX Server/Agent. 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...

UPDATE: Twitter Suffers DoS Attack

Twitter was the target of a sustained denial-of-service attack Thursday morning, an attack that took the site offline for several hours. Twitter’s service went down around 9 a.m. EDT and was back up around noon, while Facebook’s site also experienced problems that may have been the result of a Do...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.8-9.fc10

device-mapper-multipath provides tools to manage multipath devices by instructing the device-mapper multipath kernel module what to do. The tools are : multipath : Scan the system for multipath devices and assemble them. multipathd : Detects when paths fail and execs multipath to update thing s...

Softbiz Image Gallery - 'suggest_image.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30546/info Softbiz Photo Gallery is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecti...