HTSlib Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

HTSlib is a library written in C for accessing high-throughput sequencing data such as SAM, CRAM and VCF. A competitive condition vulnerability exists in the cram/cramio.c file in HTSlib version 1.8. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by performing a symbolic link attack to overwrite...

Introduction to DNS Data Exfiltration

Written by Asaf Nadler and Avi Aminov Spyware is a malicious software malware used to gather information about a person or organization without their consent. In a typical setting, a remote server, that acts as a command and control server C&C, waits for an incoming connection from the spyware th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: xstream-1.4.9-1.fc24

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. A high level facade is supplied that simplifies common use cases. Custom objects can be serialized without need for specifying mappings. Speed and low memory footprint are a crucial part of the design, making it suitable for...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: condor-8.3.6-1.fc21

HTCondor is a workload management system for high-throughput and high-performance jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, HTCondor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs ...

RHEL 6 : Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid 2.3 (RHSA-2013:0565)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0565 advisory. Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging, Realtime, and Grid is a next-generation IT infrastructure for enterprise computing. MRG offers increased performanc...

RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2012:0099)

Updated Grid component packages that fix multiple security issues, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid 2.0 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Updated Grid component packages that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid 2.0 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Updated Grid component packages that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common...