X (Formerly Twitter): Profile Pic padding (Length-hiding) fails due to use of GZIP

Back in August, I noted that Twitter was appending anywhere from dozens to thousands of junk 0x20 bytes on the end of the JPEG and PNG files they serve for users’ profile images. It was suggested that, though invalid, they were doing this deliberately, as an information-hiding mechanism. The HTTP...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: suricata-2.0.4-1.fc21

The Suricata Engine is an Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. This engine is not intended to just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but will bring new ideas and technologies to the field. This new Engine supports Multi-threading, Automatic...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ark-4.14.1-1.fc20

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha if appropriate command-line programs are installed...

USN-2348-1 apt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that APT did not re-verify downloaded files when the If-Modified-Since wasn't met. CVE-2014-0487 It was discovered that APT did not invalidate repository data when it switched from an unauthenticated to an authenticated state. CVE-2014-0488 It was discovered that the APT...

Xcode OpenBase <= 9.1.5 - Local Root Exploit (OSX)

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/perl http://www.digitalmunition.com written by kf kflistsatdigitalmunitiondotcom http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 This won't help ftp://www.openbase.com/pub/OpenBase10.0 This will This is an exploit for a 3rd party program that has...

Zimbra Collaboration Server - LFI

No description provided by source. This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' require 'rexml/document' class Metasploit3 Msf::Exploit::Remote include Msf::Exploit::Remote::HttpClient include...

PT-2014-5359 · Red Hat · Openshift Origin +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: OpenShift Origin and Enterprise versions 1.2.8 through 2.1.1 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a Source-Url ending with certain file extensions in a cartridge manifest fil...

openSUSE Security Update : python (openSUSE-SU-2014:0380-1)

Python was updated to 2.7.6 to fix bugs and security issues : - bugfix-only release - SSL-related fixes - upstream fix for CVE-2013-4238 - upstream fixes for CVE-2013-1752 - added patches for CVE-2013-1752 bnc856836 issues that are missing in 2.7.6: python-2.7.6-imaplib.patch...

openSUSE Security Update : python3 (openSUSE-SU-2014:0498-1)

Python was updated to 3.3.5 fixing bugs and security issues : - bugfix-only release, closes several security bugs - CVE-2013-1752 bnc856836 - DoS flaws with unbounded reads from network - disable SSLv2 by default - DoS on maliciously crafted zip files CVE-2013-7338, bnc869222 -...

Answers is vulnerable to BREACH (SSL/HTTP gzip) attack

This is an external report, and not a high priority - certainly much lower impact than ANSWERS-648. This issue was reported by Nakul Mohan , 11 May - the email is too long to reproduce here. An attacker with the ability to: Inject partial chosen plaintext into a victim's requests Measure the size...

Gzip Memory Bomb Denial Of Service

This module generates and hosts a 10MB single-round gzip file that decompresses to 10GB. Many applications will not implement a length limit check and will eat up all memory and eventually die. This can also be used to kill systems that download/parse content from a user-provided URL...

Fedora Update for ark FEDORA-2013-13499

Check for the Version of ark OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for ark FEDORA-2013-13499 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 terms of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ark-4.10.5-1.fc17

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha if appropriate command-line programs are installed...

Oracle Linux 5 : gzip (ELSA-2010-0061)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0061 advisory. 1.3.5-11.0.1.el54.1 - Updated description in specfile to be product neutral 1.3.5-11:.1 - Added fix for CVE-2010-0001: 64 bit Integer underflow by decompressing...

Oracle Linux 3 / 4 : gzip (ELSA-2006-0667)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2006:0667 : Updated gzip packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The gzip package contains the GNU gzip data...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ark-4.10.4-1.fc17

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha if appropriate command-line programs are installed...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: ark-4.10.4-1.fc18

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha if appropriate command-line programs are installed...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: ark-4.10.4-1.fc19

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha if appropriate command-line programs are installed...

Fedora Update for pigz FEDORA-2013-2589

Check for the Version of pigz OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pigz FEDORA-2013-2589 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 terms of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: pigz-2.2.5-1.fc17

pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data...