Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses

The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : MariaDB vulnerability (USN-4250-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4250-2 advisory. It was discovered that an unspecified vulnerability existed in the C API component of MariaDB. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service for MariaDB...

USN-4250-2 mariadb-10.1, mariadb-10.3 vulnerability

It was discovered that an unspecified vulnerability existed in the C API component of MariaDB. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service for MariaDB clients. MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.22 in Ubuntu 19.10 and 10.1.44 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. In addition to security fixes, the updat...

Jaeles v0.4 - The Swiss Army Knife For Automated Web Application Testing

Jaeles is a powerful, flexible and easily extensible framework written in Go for building your own Web Application Scanner. Installation Download precompiled version here. If you have a Go environment, make sure you have Go = 1.13 with Go Modules enable and run the following command. GO111MODULE=...

Hackers Exploited Twitter Bug to Find Linked Phone Numbers of Users

Twitter today issued a warning revealing that attackers abused a legitimate functionality on its platform to unauthorizedly determine phone numbers associated with millions of its users' accounts. According to Twitter, the vulnerability resided in one of the APIs that has been designed to make it...

Pen Testing Ships. A year in review

Partially driven by the upcoming inclusion of Cyber Security by the IMO International Maritime Organisation, 2019 was a really busy year for maritime security testing at PTP. What can we all learn from a year of evaluating the security of ships? We’ve been involved in all sorts of ship testing,...

USN-4250-1 mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0 vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 8.0.19 in Ubuntu 19.10. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been updated to MySQL 5.7.29. In addition to security fixes, the updated package...

USN-4250-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 8.0.19 in Ubuntu 19.10. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been updated to MySQL 5.7.29. In addition to security fixes, the updated package...

Mandatory IoT Security in the Offing with U.K. Proposal

The U.K. government has unveiled a proposed law aimed at securing internet of things IoT devices, which have historically been riddled with basic security issues. The drafted law, announced on Monday, comprises three main mandates for IoT manufacturers. First, all consumer IoT device passwords mu...

PYSEC-2020-164

An invalid memory access flaw is present in libyang before v1.0-r3 in the function resolvefeaturevalue when an if-feature statement is used inside a bit. Applications that use libyang to parse untrusted input yang files may crash...

openSUSE Security Update : libredwg (openSUSE-2020-68)

This update for libredwg fixes the following issues : libredwg was updated to release 0.9.3 : - Added the -x,--extnames option to dwglayers for r13-r14 DWGs. - Fixed some leaks: SORTENTSTABLE, PROXYENTITY.ownerhandle for r13. - Add DICTIONARY.itemhandles for r13 and r14. - Fixed some dwglayers NU...

openSUSE Security Update : php7-imagick (openSUSE-2020-14)

This update for php7-imagick fixes the following issues : Upgrade to version 3.4.4 : Added : - function Imagick::optimizeImageTransparency - METRICSTRUCTURALSIMILARITYERROR - METRICSTRUCTURALDISSIMILARITYERROR - COMPRESSIONZSTD - https://github.com/facebook/zstd - COMPRESSIONWEBP -...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0024-1 Security update for ffmpeg-4

This update for ffmpeg-4 fixes the following issues: ffmpeg-4 was updated to version 4.0.5, fixes boo1133153 - CVE-2019-11339: The studio profile decoder in libavcodec/mpeg4videodec.c in FFmpeg 4.0 allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-array access or possibly have...

Citrix SD-WAN Software Feature Cheat Sheet

The purpose of this article is to provide guidance of what software, hardware, license and management tool is supported per release. Citrix SD-WAN Software Feature Cheat Sheet also attached for reference R11.4.2 – Nov 2,2021| • You can now configure the LTE interface-based WAN link as a Private...

XSS vulnerability in jeecms

jeecms is Jiangxi Jinlei Technology Development Co., Ltd. developed a support for WeChat small program, WeChat public number / service number, column model, content model cross-customization, as well as with payment and financial settlement of the content of the e-commerce as one of the content...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2710-1 Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker

This update for spectre-meltdown-checker fixes the following issues: - feat: implement TAA detection CVE-2019-11135 bsc1139073 - feat: implement MCEPSC / iTLB Multihit detection CVE-2018-12207 bsc1117665 - feat: taa: add TSXCTRL MSR detection in hardware info - feat: fwdb: use both Intel GitHub...

UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.4.0

MITRE CALDERA 2.4.0 is now available! It has been just four months since the release of MITRE CALDERA 2.3.0. As you remember, this awesome adversary emulation system was listed in my older post titled – List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This release has a lot of new feature, breaking and...

CVE-2013-4318

File injection vulnerability in Ruby gem Features 0.3.0 allows remote attackers to inject malicious html in the /tmp directory...

Design/Logic Flaw

File injection vulnerability in Ruby gem Features 0.3.0 allows remote attackers to inject malicious html in the /tmp directory...

CVE-2013-4318

CVE-2013-4318 affects the Ruby Gems Features package (Ruby Features 0.3.0). The issue is a file handling flaw where input submitted to /tmp/out.html is not properly validated, enabling a local cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Some sources describe the risk as a local XSS, while others reference...