Getting Back on the Field

Growing up as a foreign service brat, I was obsessed with security. Living in Guatemala in the 80s you had to adapt and become resilient as child. As there was no TV in our household, 10-year-old Tom began to tinker with my father’s computer and soon it became my oasis from the stress of living i...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: konversation-1.7.4-1.fc25

A simple and easy to use IRC client with support for strikeout; multi-channel joins; away / unaway messages; ignore list functionality; support for foreign language characters; auto-connect to server; optional timestamps to chat windows; configurable background colors and much more...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: konversation-1.7.4-1.fc26

A simple and easy to use IRC client with support for strikeout; multi-channel joins; away / unaway messages; ignore list functionality; support for foreign language characters; auto-connect to server; optional timestamps to chat windows; configurable background colors and much more...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : postgresql (EulerOS-SA-2017-1231)

According to the versions of the postgresql packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - It was found that authenticating to a PostgreSQL database account with an empty password was possible despite libpq's refusal to send an emp...

October 4, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Nobel Prize” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 4, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Kangaroo Ransomware uses...

postgresql: pg_user_mappings view discloses passwords to users lacking server privileges

An authorization flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled access to the pgusermappings view on foreign servers. A remote, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the...

postgresql: pg_user_mappings view discloses passwords to users lacking server privileges

An authorization flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled access to the pgusermappings view on foreign servers. A remote, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the...

postgresql: pg_user_mappings view discloses passwords to users lacking server privileges

An authorization flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled access to the pgusermappings view on foreign servers. A remote, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : posrgresql (EulerOS-SA-2017-1216)

According to the versions of the posrgresql packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - It was found that some selectivity estimation functions did not check user privileges before providing information from pgstatistic, possibl...

Security Flaw in Estonian National ID Card

We have no idea how bad this really is: On 30 August, an international team of researchers informed the Estonian Information System Authority RIA of a vulnerability potentially affecting the digital use of Estonian ID cards. The possible vulnerability affects a total of almost 750,000 ID-cards...

BSA-2017-395

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-395 Component : PostgreSQL Revision : 1.0: Interim An authorization flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled access to the pgusermappings view on foreign servers. A remote authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to retrieve passwords from the use...

CVE-2017-6329

Symantec VIP Access for Desktop prior to 2.2.4 can be susceptible to a DLL Pre-Loading vulnerability. These types of issues occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, the...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-7547

PostgreSQL versions before 9.2.22, 9.3.18, 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to authorization flaw allowing remote authenticated attackers to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so...

CVE-2017-7547

PostgreSQL versions before 9.2.22, 9.3.18, 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to authorization flaw allowing remote authenticated attackers to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so...

CVE-2017-7547

PostgreSQL versions before 9.2.22, 9.3.18, 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to authorization flaw allowing remote authenticated attackers to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so...

rustgo: calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead

русский Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptography is unforgiving. Wouldn't it ...

rustgo: calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead

русский Go has good support for calling into assembly, and a lot of the fast cryptographic code in the stdlib is carefully optimized assembly, bringing speedups of over 20 times. However, writing assembly code is hard, reviewing it is possibly harder, and cryptography is unforgiving. Wouldn't it ...

CVE-2017-7547

An authorization flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled access to the pgusermappings view on foreign servers. A remote, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the...

KLA11091 Multiple vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions and obtain sensitive information. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. An improper handling of empty passwords in libpq can be exploited...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7547

PostgreSQL versions before 9.2.22, 9.3.18, 9.4.13, 9.5.8 and 9.6.4 are vulnerable to authorization flaw allowing remote authenticated attackers to retrieve passwords from the user mappings defined by the foreign server owners without actually having the privileges to do so...