Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability (USN-3151-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3151-3 advisory. Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial o...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3150-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

USN-3151-3: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or run arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

Weak Encryption

session-file-store is vulnerable to a weak encryption implementation. The library encrypts files by using the filename as the key, thereby bypassing the point of encrypting the files to begin with. A malicious user can decrypt the json files as long as they have access to it's filename...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2976-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. For the PowerPC64 a new 'bigmem' flavor has been added to support big Power machines. FATE319026 The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc....

nghttp2: Heap-use-after-free

Background Nghttp2 is an implementation of HTTP/2 and its header compression algorithm HPACK in C. Description A heap-use-after-free vulnerability has been discovered in nghttp2. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact The impact of the vulnerability is still unknown...

Doing things the NTP----CVE-2016-7434 vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The NTP Protocol Analysis with CVE-2016-7434 About the client and the NTP server, the NTP Protocol interaction, the synchronous time of process I is no longer described in detail, with a pair of figure can be a brief description of the time synchronization process, in this process, the data take...

Ubuntu 16.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-3147-1)

Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not clear the setgid bit during a setxattr call. A local attacker could use this to possibly elevate group privileges. CVE-2016-7097 Marco Grassi discovered that the driver for Areca RAID...

USN-3147-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not clear the setgid bit during a setxattr call. A local attacker could use this to possibly elevate group privileges. CVE-2016-7097 Marco Grassi discovered that the driver for Areca RAID...

USN-3146-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the getuserasmex implementation in the Linux kernel for x86/x8664 contained extended asm statements that were incompatible with the exception table. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2016-9644 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : OpenSSL vulnerability (K93600123)

The AES-NI implementation in OpenSSL before 1.0.1t and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2h does not consider memory allocation during a certain padding check, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information via a padding-oracle attack against an AES CBC session, NOTE: this vulnerability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: tomcat-8.0.38-1.fc25

Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. Tomcat is developed in an open and participator...

Debian DSA-3716-1 : firefox-esr - security update

Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, buffer overflows and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or bypass of the same-origin policy. Also, a man-in-the-middle attack in the addon update...

USN-3126-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Ondrej Kozina discovered that the keyring interface in the Linux kernel contained a buffer overflow when displaying timeout events via the /proc/keys interface. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-7042 Dmitry Vyukov discovered a use-after-free...

python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.7.5-48.0.1 - Add Oracle Linux distribution in platform.py orabug 20812544 2.7.5-48 - Fix for CVE-2016-1000110 HTTPoxy attack Resolves: rhbz1359164 2.7.5-47 - Fix for CVE-2016-5636: possible integer overflow and heap corruption in zipimporter.getdata Resolves: rhbz1356364 2.7.5-46 - Drop patch 2...

Over 1 Billion Mobile App Accounts can be Hijacked Remotely with this Simple Hack

Security researchers have discovered a way to target a huge number of Android and iOS apps that could allow them to remotely sign into any victim's mobile app account without any knowledge of the victim. A group of three researchers – Ronghai Yang, Wing Cheong Lau, and Tianyu Liu – from the Chine...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3705-1 (curl - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in cURL, an URL transfer library: CVE-2016-8615 It was discovered that a malicious HTTP server could inject new cookies for arbitrary domains into a cookie jar. CVE-2016-8616 It was discovered that when re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : OpenSSL vulnerability (K23512141)

The DTLS implementation in OpenSSL before 1.1.0 does not properly restrict the lifetime of queue entries associated with unused out-of-order messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by maintaining many crafted DTLS sessions simultaneously, related to...

NVIDIA Driver - Escape 0x100010b Missing Bounds Check

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=927 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for escape code 0x100010b looks like: char escape100010bNvMiniportDeviceContext miniportcontext, HANDLE handle, unsigned int idx PVOID Object; if !handle dodebugthingo; Object = PVOID...

NVIDIA Driver - Escape 0x100010b Missing Bounds Check

NVIDIA Driver - Escape 0x100010b Missing Bounds Check Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=927 The DxgkDdiEscape handler for escape code 0x100010b looks like: char escape100010bNvMiniportDeviceContext miniportcontext, HANDLE handle, unsigned int idx PVOID Object; if...