CVE-2018-13054

An issue was discovered in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of for example other users' icon files in onfacebrowsemenuitemactivated and onfacemenuitemactivated. These icon files are written to the respective user's $HOME/.face...

CVE-2018-13054

An issue was discovered in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of for example other users' icon files in onfacebrowsemenuitemactivated and onfacemenuitemactivated. These icon files are written to the respective user's $HOME/.face...

OpenSLP Double Release Vulnerability

OpenSLP Service Location Protocol is an IETF standard protocol developed by the OpenSLP project for dynamic service discovery within the Internet. The protocol supports looking up services in the network by their types and attributes. A double release vulnerability exists in the slpdprocess.c fil...

Google Home and Chromecast Design Vulnerabilities

Google Home and Chromecast are both products of Google Inc. Google Home is a smart speaker device and Chromecast is an Internet TV set-top box device. There is a security vulnerability in the API services in Google Home and Chromecast. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to determine t...

Microsoft Windows 10: Search and Cortana use location

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winsearchcortanalocation.nasl 11344 2018-09-12 06:57:52Z emoss $ Check value for Allow search and Cortana to use location Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net Thi...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the scanresults JSON data, which allows remote attackers to determine the physical location of most web browsers by leveraging the presence of one of these devices on its...

Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy rights, but experts say it may have limited bearing on the selling of real-time customer location data by...

U.S. Supreme Court Bolsters Mobile-Phone Privacy Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a decision that bolsters digital privacy rights of cellphone users. In a 5-4 vote, the court ruled law enforcement needs a warrant to obtain mobile phone tower records that can reveal a user’s location over time. The ruling was made on Friday in a case involving...

Event id 1 "An error occurred running the command: 'Install-DSFeatureClasses' " while propagating changes after adding StoreFront Server to a Server Group

You may be unable to propagate changes after adding StoreFront Server to existing Server Group. The propagation fails with following event inCitrix Delivery Services event log: Log Name: Citrix Delivery Services Source: Citrix Configuration Replication Service Date: dd/mm/yyyy hr:min:sec AM/PM...

Flaw in Google Home and Chromecast devices reveals user location

By Waqas Craig Young, an IT security expert from Tripwire has found This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Flaw in Google Home and Chromecast devices reveals user location...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12097

The liblnklocationinformationreaddata function in liblnklocationinformation.c in liblnk through 2018-04-19 allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted lnk file. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this as described in libyal/liblnk issue 33 on...

AT&T, Sprint, Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, the four major wireless carriers have responded to requests from a U.S. senator for more details about how the carriers are managing acce...

Google to Fix Location Data Leak in Google Home, Chromecast

Google in the coming weeks is expected to fix a location privacy leak in two of its most popular consumer products. New research shows that Web sites can run a simple script in the background that collects precise location data on people who have a Google Home or Chromecast device installed...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM Platform Symphony and IBM Spectrum Symphony (CVE-2016-3610 CVE-2016-3598 CVE-2016-3606 CVE-2016-3587 CVE-2016-3511 CVE-2016-3550 CVE-2016-3485)

Summary Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM Platform Symphony and IBM Spectrum Symphony Vulnerability Details CVE IDs: CVE-2016-3610 CVE-2016-3598 CVE-2016-3606 CVE-2016-3587 CVE-2016-3511 CVE-2016-3550 CVE-2016-3485 Affected Products and Versions IBM Platform Symphony: 5.2, 6.1.0.1, 6.1.1,...

Microsoft Windows: Require domain users to elevate when setting a networks location

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winncstddomainusersetlocation.nasl 11337 2018-09-11 14:23:53Z emoss $ Check value for Require domain users to elevate when setting a networks location Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Microsoft Windows: User Account Control: Only elevate UIAccess applications that are installed in secure locations

This policy setting enforces the requirement that apps that request running with a UIAccess integrity level by means of a marking of UIAccess=true in their app manifest, must reside in a secure location on the file system. Relatively secure locations are limited to the following directories: -...

CVE-2017-5394

A location bar spoofing attack where the location bar of loaded page will be shown over the content of another tab due to a series of JavaScript events combined with fullscreen mode. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability...

CVE-2017-5395

Malicious sites can display a spoofed location bar on a subsequently loaded page when the existing location bar on the new page is scrolled out of view if navigations between pages can be timed correctly. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected...

CVE-2017-5395

Malicious sites can display a spoofed location bar on a subsequently loaded page when the existing location bar on the new page is scrolled out of view if navigations between pages can be timed correctly. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected...

CVE-2017-5394

A location bar spoofing attack where the location bar of loaded page will be shown over the content of another tab due to a series of JavaScript events combined with fullscreen mode. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability...