Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)

railsadmin, and several other libraries, are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. Non-GET methods in the affect libraries are found to not validate CSRF tokens. It is possible for an attacker to gain access to a site's administrative endpoints that are exposed by the gem. The...

Tests Crypto Libraries Against Known Attacks: Wycheproof

Rests Crypto Libraries Against Known Attacks Project Wycheproof tests crypto libraries against known attacks. It is developed and maintained by members of Google Security Team, but it is not an official Google product. In cryptography, subtle mistakes can have catastrophic consequences. Good...

uninitialized random

libcurl's new internal function that returns a good 32-bit random value was implemented poorly and overwrote the pointer instead of writing the value into the buffer the pointer pointed to. This random value is used to generate nonces for Digest and NTLM authentication, for generating boundary...

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:0563-1 Security update for Chromium

This update to Chromium 55.0.2883.75 fixes the following vulnerabilities: - CVE-2016-9651: Private property access in V8 - CVE-2016-5208: Universal XSS in Blink - CVE-2016-5207: Universal XSS in Blink - CVE-2016-5206: Same-origin bypass in PDFium - CVE-2016-5205: Universal XSS in Blink -...

Code Reuse a Peril for Secure Software Development

The amount of insecure software tied to reused third-party libraries and lingering in applications long after patches have been deployed is staggering. It’s a habitual problem perpetuated by developers failing to vet third-party code for vulnerabilities, and some repositories taking a hands-off...

openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2016-1453)

This update to Chromium 55.0.2883.75 fixes the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2016-9651: Private property access in V8 - CVE-2016-5208: Universal XSS in Blink - CVE-2016-5207: Universal XSS in Blink - CVE-2016-5206: Same-origin bypass in PDFium - CVE-2016-5205: Universal XSS in Blink -...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-ibm (SUSE-SU-2016:3078-1)

This update for java-180-ibm fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-5568: Unspecified vulnerability allowed remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to AWT - CVE-2016-5556: Unspecified vulnerability allowed remote attackers to affect...

openSUSE Security Update : X Window System client libraries (openSUSE-2016-1420)

This update for X Window System client libraries fixes a class of privilege escalation issues. A malicious X server could send specially crafted data to X clients, which allowed for triggering crashes, or privilege escalation if this relationship was untrusted or crossed user or permission level...

Fedora Update for openvas-libraries FEDORA-2016-73e509d4e4

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...

CVE-2016-2946

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ax Shared Libraries in the Agent in IBM Tivoli Monitoring ITM 6.2.2 before FP9, 6.2.3 before FP5, and 6.3.0 before FP2 on Linux and UNIX allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors...

The installers of multiple Japan Pension Service software may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries

Overview The installers of multiple Japan Pension Service software contain an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries. Yuji Tounai of NTT Communications Corporation reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer und...

JVN#08868688: The installers of multiple Japan Pension Service software may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries

The installers of multiple Japan Pension Service software contain an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries. Impact This vulnerability can be exploited when the following condition is met. If this vulnerability is exploited, an arbitrary code m...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: bind99-9.9.9-4.P4.fc23

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. This package set contains only export version of BIND libraries, that are used for building ISC DHCP...

Linux Kernel 4.6.3 Netfilter Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require "msf/core" class MetasploitModule 'Linux Kernel 4.6.3 Netfilter Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module attempts to exploit a netfilter bug on Linux...

SUSE-SU-2016:2828-1 Security update for X Window System client libraries

This update for the X Window System client libraries fixes a class of privilege escalation issues. A malicious X Server could send specially crafted data to X clients, which allowed for triggering crashes, or privilege escalation if this relationship was untrusted or crossed user or permission...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : X Window System client libraries (SUSE-SU-2016:2828-1)

This update for the X Window System client libraries fixes a class of privilege escalation issues. A malicious X Server could send specially crafted data to X clients, which allowed for triggering crashes, or privilege escalation if this relationship was untrusted or crossed user or permission...

Fedora 25 : ca-certificates (2016-d1408c3ba3)

This is an update to the Mozilla CA certificates list version 2.9, which has been published as part of Mozilla NSS 3.26. This update reverts the CA list to the unmodified upstream CA list. The legacy CA modifications, which had previously been shipped with Fedora, have been reverted to an empty...

Fedora 25 : openvas-gsa / openvas-libraries / openvas-manager / openvas-scanner (2016-73e509d4e4)

Bump to the latest patch release of the openvas 8.0 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

OpenJDK: missing algorithm restrictions for jar verification (Libraries, 8155973)

It was discovered that the Libraries component of OpenJDK did not restrict the set of algorithms used for JAR integrity verification. This flaw could allow an attacker to modify content of the JAR file that used weak signing key or hash algorithm...

OpenJDK: missing algorithm restrictions for jar verification (Libraries, 8155973)

It was discovered that the Libraries component of OpenJDK did not restrict the set of algorithms used for JAR integrity verification. This flaw could allow an attacker to modify content of the JAR file that used weak signing key or hash algorithm...