Deeply Flawed Apple-Owned Fingerprint Reader Software a Tough Fix

Now that word is out on a serious password bug in the ubiquitous UPEK Protector Suite fingerprint readers found in most new laptops today, Apple-owned Authentec surely will be able to fix the issue on the double. Not so fast, says one of the researchers looking at the problem. “It’s a system that...

CVE-2012-4899

WellinTech KingView 6.5.3 and earlier uses a weak password-hashing algorithm, which makes it easier for local users to discover credentials by reading an unspecified file...

CVE-2012-4899

CVE-2012-4899 affects WellinTech KingView 6.5.3 and earlier, where user credentials are not securely hashed, enabling local attackers to discover usernames and passwords by reading a stored file. The vulnerability stems from a weak password-hashing algorithm, and exploitation requires local acces...

CVE-2012-4899

WellinTech KingView 6.5.3 and earlier uses a weak password-hashing algorithm, which makes it easier for local users to discover credentials by reading an unspecified file...

PT-2015-09: Information Disclosure in Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal)

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Information Disclosure vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal. Device user passwords in TIA portal project files are stored using a weak hashing algorithm. Attackers with read access to the project file could possibly...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: openldap security and bug fix update

Updated openldap packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...

Yahoo Sued By User Following Breach of 450,000 Passwords

Internet search conglomerate Yahoo is being sued by one of its users for negligence after the usernames and passwords of approximately 450,000 of its users were leaked by a hacker online last month. According to a complaint .PDF filed earlier this week in a federal court in San Jose, Calif., the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php53 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120627)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was discovered that the PHP XSL extension did not restrict the file writing capability of libxslt. A remote attacker could use this flaw to create or overwrite an arbitrary file that is writable by the user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120625)

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql84 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A signedness issue was found in the way the crypt function in the PostgreSQL pgcrypto module handled 8-bit characters in passwords when using Blowfish hashing. Up to three characters immediately preceding a non-ASCII...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libxml2 on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of various XML standards. It was found that the hashing routine used by libxml2 arrays was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. Sending a specially crafted message to an XML service could result in longer processing...

Scientific Linux Security Update : php on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120118)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was found that the hashing routine used by PHP arrays was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. If an HTTP POST request to a PHP application contained many parameters whose names map to the same hash...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql and postgresql84 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120625)

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed...

Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. A signedness issue was found in the way the crypt function in the PostgreSQL pgcrypto module handled 8-bit characters in passwords when using Blowfish hashing. Up to three characters immediately preceding a non-ASCII...

CentOS Update for postgresql84 CESA-2011:1378 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of postgresql84 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for postgresql84 CESA-2011:1378 centos5 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

CentOS Update for postgresql CESA-2011:1377 centos5 x86_64

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

CentOS Update for postgresql84 CESA-2012:1037 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

CentOS Update for postgresql CESA-2012:1036 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for postgresql CESA-2012:1037 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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...

CentOS Update for php CESA-2012:0019 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...