Symantec Releases Security Updates

Symantec has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in its Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance software. Exploitation of one of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Symantec...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Symantec Messaging Gateway is a suite of anti-spam, anti-virus, advanced content filtering and data leakage protection technologies from Symantec. A security vulnerability exists in the management console of Symantec Messaging Gateway versions prior to 10.6.0-7. The vulnerability can be exploited...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Stored AD Password Vulnerability

Symantec Messaging Gateway is a suite of anti-spam, anti-virus, advanced content filtering and data leakage protection technologies from Symantec. A security vulnerability exists in the management console of Symantec Messaging Gateway versions prior to 10.6.0-7. An attacker could exploit the...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Multiple Security Issues

SUMMARY Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance management console was susceptible to potential recovery of the AD password by any user with at least authorized read access to the appliance. Also, an admin or support user could potentially escalate a lower-privileged access to root on the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: springframework-amqp-1.3.9-4.fc24

The Spring AMQP project applies core Spring concepts to the development of AMQP-based messaging solutions. It provides a "template" as a high-level abstraction for sending and receiving messages. It also provides support for Message driven POJOs with a "listener container". These libraries...

Security update for samba (important)

samba was updated to version 4.2.4 to fix 14 security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2015-5370: DCERPC server and client were vulnerable to DOS and MITM attacks bsc936862. - CVE-2016-2110: A man-in-the-middle could have downgraded NTLMSSP authentication bsc973031. - CVE-2016-2111...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: qpid-proton-0.12.1-1.fc23

Proton is a high performance, lightweight messaging library. It can be used in the widest range of messaging applications including brokers, client librar ies, routers, bridges, proxies, and more. Proton is based on the AMQP 1.0 messag ing standard. Using Proton it is trivial to integrate with th...

iMessage Executes JavaScript URIs as Clickable Links

At the height of the Apple-FBI battle, researchers at Johns Hopkins University tunneled their way through the encryption protocol protecting iMessage to get at content sent via the Apple application Last week, a decidedly less complicated approach surfaced. Rather than having to learn crypto,...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in the createsmpdialog function in gtk-dialog.c in the Off-the-Record Messaging OTR pidgin-otr plugin before 4.0.2 for Pidgin allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the "Authenticate buddy" menu item...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2016-3298

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Internet Messaging API improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could allow the attacker to test for the presence of files on disk...

KLA10781 Code execution vulnerability in pidgin-otr plugin.

Use-after-free vulnerability was found in Off-the-Record Messaging OTR pidgin-otr plugin. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via vectors related to the “Authenticate buddy” menu item. Technical details This...

CVE-2015-8833

Use-after-free vulnerability in the createsmpdialog function in gtk-dialog.c in the Off-the-Record Messaging OTR pidgin-otr plugin before 4.0.2 for Pidgin allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the "Authenticate buddy" menu item...

CVE-2015-8833: Undefined Security Weakness

Use-after-free vulnerability in the createsmpdialog function in gtk-dialog.c in the Off-the-Record Messaging OTR pidgin-otr plugin before 4.0.2 for Pidgin allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the "Authenticate buddy" menu item...

WhatsApp Encryption: A Good Start, but Far from a Security Panacea

WhatsApp’s addition of end-to-end encryption is a good start, but does not present users with a complete solution that protects against the prying eyes of intrusive governments and nosey third-parties. That’s the consensus among privacy and security experts that commend Facebook-owned WhatsApp fo...

WhatsApp turns on End-to-End Encryption by default for its 1 Billion Users

WhatsApp is updating its messaging app so that every text message and voice call will be encrypted for the company’s one billion users. Yes, Whatsapp has finally implemented full end-to-end encryption, as promised a year ago. This means, from now every message, image or voice call you made will b...

Data Leaking 'Surreptitious Sharing' Vulnerability Identified in Android API

Researchers have identified a vulnerability in an Android API used by messaging apps such as Skype and perhaps more concerning, privacy-centric apps such as Signal, and Telegram, that could lead to privilege escalation and data loss including private keys. Dominik Schürmann and Lars Wolf,...

Family Locator & Messaging - Customized SSL, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Family Locator & Messaging published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Messaging+ 6 - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Messaging+ 6 published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Callgram messaging with calls - Customized SSL, GPL license, MIT license vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Callgram messaging with calls published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Phreasy - Messaging Helper - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Phreasy - Messaging Helper published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...