Firefox 3.0.14 Insufficient warning for PKCS11 module installation and removal

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 does not properly implement certain dialogs associated with the 1 pkcs11.addmodule and 2 pkcs11.deletemodule operations, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into installing or removing an arbitrary PKCS11 module...

Martin Hellman on Soaring, Nuclear Weapons and Cryptography

Martin Hellman, the co-inventor of public key cryptography, uses his background in security and cryptography to bring insights to two seemingly unrelated issues: nuclear weapons and soaring...

Nate Lawson: Crypto Strikes Back!

This Google Tech Talk features researcher Nate Lawson discussing recent vulnerabilities in crypto libraries, why public key cryptography is like a Ford Pinto in a demolition derby and the password-hashing mess created by Web 2.0 sites...

Google Internet Summit 2009: Security Session

Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, moderates a panel of security experts, including Howard Schmidt, Steve Crocker, Chris DiBona and Eric Grosse, discussing a variety of security topics...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc ADV FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from ADV FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft...

NTP.org 'ntpd' Autokey Stack Overflow Vulnerability

NTP.org SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:ntp:ntp"; ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900652";...

OpenSSL RSA Signature Forgery Vulnerability

OpenSSL versions 0.9.7j and prior and 0.9.8b and prior contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to successfully pass a forged X.509 certificate. The vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to pass a forged Public-Key Cryptography Standards...

MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Background MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography. Description Unchecked calls to setuid in krshd and v4rcp, as well as unchecked calls ...

GnuPG contains format-string vulnerability in handling of encrypted data filename

Overview Some versions of Gnu Privacy Guard GPG contain a format-string vulnerability from improper handling of filenames when decrypting files. Description GPG is an OpenPGP-compliant alternative to PGP to protect electronic communications using public-key cryptography. Versions of GPG prior to...