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Todd Miller Sudo Local Security Bypass Vulnerability

Sudo is a program that allows users to securely execute commands with other user privileges and is widely used under Linux and Unix operating systems. A local security bypass vulnerability exists in Todd Miller Sudo, which allows local attackers to exploit the vulnerability to bypass security...

Podcast: Threatpost Previews Black Hat 2014

In this special edition of the Digital Underground Podcast, Dennis Fisher interviews fellow Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso and also Threatpost reporter Brian Donohue about the Black Hat security conference, which begins this week in Las Vegas. Topics of discussion include Chris Valasek and Charlie...

botan -- cryptographic vulnerability

MITRE reports: The Miller-Rabin primality check in Botan before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.9 improperly uses a single random base, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a DH group...

Todd Miller Sudo 'validate_env_vars()'本地权限提升漏洞

BUGTRAQ ID: 65997 CVECAN ID: CVE-2014-0106 Sudo是允许系统管理员让普通用户执行一些或者全部的root命令的一个工具，减少了root用户的登陆和管理时间，提高了安全性。 sudo 1.6.9-1.8.4p5版本启用后envreset后，没有正确过滤某些环境变量，在实现上存在本地权限提升漏洞，本地攻击者可利用此漏洞以提升的权限运行任意命令。 0 Todd Miller Sudo 1.6.9 - 1.8.4p5 厂商补丁： Todd Miller ----------- 目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复这个安全问题，请到厂商的主页下载：...

RedHat Update for sudo RHSA-2014:0266-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Oracle Linux 5 : sudo (ELSA-2014-0266)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0266 advisory. 1.7.2p1-29 - added patch for CVE-2014-0106: certain environment variables not sanitized when envreset is disabled Resolves: rhbz1072210 Tenable has extracted th...

sudo security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0266 An updated sudo package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

How to Fail at Black Hat

Every summer, the hacker intelligentsia descends on Las Vegas like a swarm of thirsty locusts that spends seven days chasing free drinks and avoiding sunlight at all costs. Black Hat and DEF CON week can be an overwhelming and confusing experience, especially for the uninitiated or agoraphobic. B...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2010)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2010 advisory. - block check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blkrqmapuseriov Xiaotian Feng CVE-2010-4668 - scm: lower SCMMAXFD Eric Dumazet...

PlayStation hacker gets year of House Arrest for destroying evidence of Hack

23-year-old Todd Miller, suspected of hacking into Sony's PlayStation Network, was due to be arrested, will spend a year on house arrest, but not for the hacking. Instead, he was sentenced yesterday in federal court for obstructing a federal investigation because he smashed his computers, halting...

PlayStation hacker gets year of House Arrest for destroying evidence of Hack

23-year-old Todd Miller, suspected of hacking into Sony’s PlayStation Network, was due to be arrested, will spend a year on house arrest, but not for the hacking. Instead, he was sentenced yesterday in federal court for obstructing a federal investigation because he smashed his computers, halting...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1/-2.6.10/-2.6.12 vulnerabilities (USN-219-1)

Al Viro discovered a race condition in the /proc file handler of network devices. A local attacker could exploit this by opening any file in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf// and waiting until that interface was shut down. Under certain circumstances this could lead to a kernel crash or even arbitrary co...

Groundbreaking Cyber Fast Track Research Program Ending

VANCOUVER–When Peiter Zatko, the security researcher and pioneering hacker known as Mudge, joined the federal government several years ago to help run a DARPA research program, some in the security industry wondered what effect someone with his background could have in an organization as famously...

Moxie Marlinspike Leaving Twitter Security Team

Twitter has been collecting a lot of security talent in the last year or so, but now a major piece of the company’s security team is leaving. Moxie Marlinspike, the creative security and privacy researcher who founded Whisper Systems, which was acquired by Twitter in 2011, said on Friday that he ...

Researcher Charlie Miller Joins Twitter Security Team

Twitter quietly is assembling a serious security team, with the most recent addition being Charlie Miller, the security researcher known for finding a long line of bugs in the iPhone and other Apple products. Miller, a respected and prolific researcher, will join the social network’s security tea...

Charlie Miller Takes on NFC, Charlie Miller Wins

LAS VEGAS–Do not stand near Charlie Miller. Actually, you might not even want to let him walk past you. It’s not that Miller is a bad person, you understand. The problem is that Miller has figured out a couple of methods that enable him–or an attacker–to use the NFC chip in some phones to exploit...

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department Andrew James Miller, a 23-year-old resident of Devon, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of access device fraud, according to a statement issued by the...

Researchers bypass Google Bouncer Android Security

Researchers bypass Google Bouncer Android Security Google's Android platform has become the most popular mobile operating system both among consumers and malware writers, and the company earlier this year introduced the Bouncer system to look for malicious apps in the Google Play market. Bouncer,...

Think Safer

Not even a techno-religion is immune from security snafus, as the folks at Apple are steadily discovering. After years of watching the bad guys use crimeware kits like Zeus against Microsoft, the iGang finally got a malware construction tool to call its own in May of this year. Modeled on the...