[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-17.0.8esr-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For...

Apache suEXEC Privilege Escalation / Information Disclosure

Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Discovered by Kingcope/Aug 2013 The suEXEC feature provides Apache users the ability to run CGI and SSI programs under user IDs different from the user ID of the calling web server. Normally, when a CGI or SSI program executes, it runs as...

Apache suEXEC - Information Disclosure / Privilege Escalation

Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Discovered by Kingcope/Aug 2013 The suEXEC feature provides Apache users the ability to run CGI and SSI programs under user IDs different from the user ID of the calling web server. Normally, when a CGI or SSI program executes, it runs as...

Apache suEXEC Privilege Elevation / Information Disclosure

Apache suEXEC suffers from privilege escalation and information disclosure vulnerabilities. Apache suEXEC privilege elevation / information disclosure Discovered by Kingcope/Aug 2013 The suEXEC feature provides Apache users the ability to run CGI and SSI programs under user IDs different from the...

Tor Users Hit With Firefox Exploit, But No Large Compromise of Network Seen

The vulnerability in Firefox that was being used to exploit some users of Tor in recent days was fixed in a previous Firefox release and the exploit in circulation only works against people running Firefox 17. Over the weekend, word spread that the exploit was in the wild and that the Tor network...

Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used by FBI to shutdown Child porn on Tor Network hosting; Tor Mail Compromised

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, child pornography, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 was used by...

RootPanel SQL Injection Vulnerability

RootPanel suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for account takeover. ============================================================ RootPanel All versions SQL injection/Account takeover. Discovery: AkaStep and CAMOUFL4G3 Vendor: http://www.rootpanel.ru/...

RootPanel SQL Injection

============================================================ RootPanel All versions SQL injection/Account takeover. Discovery: AkaStep and CAMOUFL4G3 Vendor: http://www.rootpanel.ru/ ============================================================ What is RootPanel ? RootPanel is professional hosting...

IPMI Vulnerabilities on BMCs expose servers to attack

Baseboard management controllers, embedded computers present in most servers, are vulnerable to a half dozen critical vulnerabilities that could enable an attacker to gain remote control over the host machine. The vulnerabilities are in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI protocol...

Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks

US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summi...

Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks

US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summi...

shared_hosting

This plugin tries to find out if the web application under test is stored in a shared hosting. The procedure is pretty simple, using bing search engine, the plugin searches for "ip:1.2.3.4" where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the webserver. One configurable option exists: resultlimit Fetch the fir...

Plesk hosting management software remote get shell 0day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

6 month 5 days late, the Great God king cope in foreign countries well-known mailing list seclists burst Plesk latest remote exploit 0day and gives a perl version of the exp. On Plesk with: Plesk is a cross-platform host Management Control Panel software, is a server virtualization and automation...

Operation b54 Knocks 1,000+ Citadel Botnets Offline

UPDATE – Calling it the company’s “most aggressive” botnet operation operation to date, Microsoft has joined with the FBI for a massive disruption of the Citadel botnet. More than 1,400 individual botnets associated with the Citadel malware affecting more than five million people in total were...

CVE-2013-3735

The Zend Engine in PHP before 5.4.16 RC1, and 5.5.0 before RC2, does not properly determine whether a parser error occurred, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption and application crash via a crafted function definition, as demonstrated by an atta...

Code injection

The Zend Engine in PHP before 5.4.16 RC1, and 5.5.0 before RC2, does not properly determine whether a parser error occurred, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption and application crash via a crafted function definition, as demonstrated by an atta...

CVE-2013-3735

The Zend Engine in PHP before 5.4.16 RC1, and 5.5.0 before RC2, does not properly determine whether a parser error occurred, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption and application crash via a crafted function definition, as demonstrated by an atta...

CVE-2013-3735

The Zend Engine in PHP before 5.4.16 RC1, and 5.5.0 before RC2, does not properly determine whether a parser error occurred, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption and application crash via a crafted function definition, as demonstrated by an atta...

ruby

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ruby-1.9.3p429-i486-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue in DL and Fiddle included in Ruby where...

mozilla-thunderbird x86_64 packages

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware64 13.37 and 14.0. These were accidentally omitted from the last upload. Here are the details from the Slackware64 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-17.0.6-x8664-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Here's the package that was...