SUSE-SU-2015:1844-1 Security update for glibc

glibc was updated to fix bugs and security issues. Security issues fixed: A buffer overflow in nssdns was fixed that could lead to crashes. CVE-2015-1781, bsc927080, BZ 18287 A denial of service attack out of memory in the NSS files backend was fixed CVE-2014-8121, bsc918187, GLIBC BZ 18007 Non...

Cisco Fixes Denial of Service, Bypass Vulnerabilities in IOS

Cisco pushed out on Wednesday its usual semiannual round of patches for IOS, the software the company uses for most of its routers and switches. This month’s security advisories addressed four vulnerabilities, three which could lead to denial of service situations, and another that could have let...

NetworkManager: Denial of service

Background NetworkManager is an universal network configuration daemon for laptops, desktops, servers and virtualization hosts. Description IPv6 Neighbour Discovery ICMP broadcast containing a non-route with a low hop limit causes a Denial of Service by lowering the hop limit on existing IPv6...

Evil FOCA - MITM, DoS, DNS Hijacking in IPv4 and IPv6 Penetration Testing Tool

Evil Foca is a tool for security pentesters and auditors whose purpose it is to test security in IPv4 and IPv6 data networks. The tool is capable of carrying out various attacks such as: MITM over IPv4 networks with ARP Spoofing and DHCP ACK Injection. MITM on IPv6 networks with Neighbor...

Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software IPv6 First Hop Security Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities in the IPv6 first hop security feature of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds to mitigate these...

Debian DLA-310-1 : linux-2.6 security update

This update fixes the CVEs described below. CVE-2015-0272 It was discovered that NetworkManager would set IPv6 MTUs based on the values received in IPv6 RAs Router Advertisements, without sufficiently validating these values. A remote attacker could exploit this attack to disable IPv6 connectivit...

Debian DSA-3364-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation or denial of service. - CVE-2015-8215 It was discovered that NetworkManager would set IPv6 MTUs based on the values received in IPv6 RAs Router Advertisements, without sufficiently validating...

DHCP exhaustion attack: DHCPig

dhcpig – an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack DHCPig initiates an advanced DHCP exhaustion attack. It will consume all IPs on the LAN, stop new users from obtaining IPs, release any IPs in use, then for good measure send gratuitous ARP and knock all windows hosts offline. It requires scapy =2.1...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3364-1] linux security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3364-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Ben Hutchings September 21, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3364-1] linux security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3364-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Ben Hutchings September 21, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-3364-1 linux - security update

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Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3364-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Apple iOS IPv6 Routing Notification Handling Insufficiency Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. Apple iOS handles IPv6 route announcements without sufficient checksums, allowing local LAN attackers to exploit a vulnerability to disable IPv6 routing...

CVE-2015-5869

The Neighbor Discovery ND protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Apple iOS before 9 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hoplimit value in a Router Advertisement RA message...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Neighbor Discovery ND protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Apple iOS before 9 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hoplimit value in a Router Advertisement RA message...

CVE-2015-5869

The CVE-2015-5869 entry concerns Apple iOS (pre-9) IPv6 Neighbor Discovery: an attacker can reconfigure the hop-limit by sending a small hop_limit RA, due to insufficient validation. Impact stated as enabling hop-limit manipulation without authentication. Remediation: update to iOS 9 or later (as...

The vulnerability of the Cisco IOS operating system, which allows a intruder to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the Cisco IOS operating system is related to resource management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to cause service interruptions using a specially crafted IPv6 packet...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2013-148)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2013-233)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2011-26)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...