Fedora Update for php-symfony2-Yaml FEDORA-2013-22422

Check for the Version of php-symfony2-Yaml OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for php-symfony2-Yaml FEDORA-2013-22422 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2050-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

Omphaloskepsis and the December 2013 Security Update Release

There are times when we get too close to a topic. We familiarize ourselves with every aspect and nuance, but fail to recognize not everyone else has done the same. Whether you consider this myopia, navel-gazing, or human nature, the effect is the same. I recognized this during the recent webcast...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-2039-1

Check for the Version of linux-ti-omap4 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN20391.nasl 8672 2018-02-05 16:39:18Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-2039-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program i...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2038-1)

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-2038-1

Check for the Version of linux OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN20381.nasl 8483 2018-01-22 06:58:04Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-2038-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; y...

UN Says US Surveillance Violates Human Rights

The United Nations has joined the growing chorus of people, organizations and activists denouncing government mass surveillance of citizens without cause and says that such programs are a violation of basic human rights. The Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural – Third Committee of the United Natio...

Privacy, Human Rights Groups Form New Anti-Surveillance Coalition

A large group of privacy and digital rights organizations has put together a new effort to urge politicians to curtail the mass surveillance operations that have been exposed in the last few months. The new coalition has developed a set of 13 principles for governments to follow in their...

MGASA-2013-0346 Updated kernel-vserver package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-vserver update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate...

MGASA-2013-0345 Updated kernel-rt package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-rt update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attackers t...

MGASA-2013-0344 Updated kernel-tmb package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-tmb update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attackers ...

MGASA-2013-0343 Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel-linus update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attacker...

MGASA-2013-0342 Updated kernel package fixes security vulnerabilites.

This kernel update provides the upstream 3.4.69 kernel and fixes the following security issues: The ext4orphandel function in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.3 does not properly handle orphan-list entries for non-journal filesystems, which allows physically proximate attackers to...

Kernel: HID: memory corruption flaw

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-core.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption via a crafted device that provides an invalid Repor...

Kernel: HID: pantherlord: heap overflow flaw

drivers/hid/hid-pl.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDPANTHERLORD is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds write via a crafted device...

Ubuntu 13.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2023-1)

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement RA messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently obtain sensitive...

Kernel: HID: ntrig: NULL pointer dereference

drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIGHIDNTRIG is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and OOPS via a crafted device...

Kernel: HID: memory corruption flaw

Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-core.c in the Human Interface Device HID subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption via a crafted device that provides an invalid Repor...

EU Petition Seeks to Restrict Export of 'Digital Arms'

A Dutch member of the European parliament is supporting a grass-roots effort to restrict the export of surveillance software such as FinFisher and others, which are used by some governments and law-enforcement agencies to monitor their citizens’ activities. The effort, dubbed Stop Digital Arms, i...

Google Retools reCAPTCHA Authentication System

Google announced a change to its reCAPTCHA authentication system late Friday wherein the company will begin creating different types of puzzles for different users, use numeric CAPTCHAs and move away from more obscure, hard-to-read distorted letters. CAPTCHAs are the series of distorted letter...