Fedora 21 : golang-1.3.3-1.fc21 (2014-14130)

update to go1.3.3 bz1146882 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Fedora 21 : freeipa-4.1.1-1.fc21 / slapi-nis-0.54.1-1.fc21 (2014-14427)

freeipa : - Update to upstream 4.1.1 - see http://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/4.1.1 - fix CVE-2014-7828 slapi-nis : - support FreeIPA overrides in LDAP BIND callback - ignore FreeIPA override searchs outside configured schema compat subtrees Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Fedora 21 : qemu-2.1.2-6.fc21 (2014-13993)

CVE-2014-7815 vnc: insufficient bitsperpixel from the client sanitization bz 1157647, bz 1157641 - CVE-2014-3689 vmwarevga: insufficient parameter validation in rectangle functions bz 1153038, bz 1153035 Fix dep on numactl-devel to be build time not install time Note that Tenable Network Security...

RHEL 5 : nss (RHSA-2013:1841)

Updated nss packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Long Life, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 5.9 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability...

CVE-2014-3437

The management console in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager SEPM 12.1 before RU5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or send TCP requests to intranet servers via XML data containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External...

Fedora 20 : hostapd-2.3-1.fc20 (2014-13783)

Security fix for CVE-2014-3686. Update to version 2.3 from upstream Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Fedora 19 : python-rhsm-1.13.6-1.fc19 (2014-13794)

New features : - Send list of compliance reasons on dbus - Added client-side support for --matches on the list command. Security : - 1153375: Support TLSv1.2 and v1.1 by default. CVE-2014-3566 Bug fixes : - 1120772: Don't traceback on missing /ostree/repo - 1094747: add appdata metdata file -...

Michael Chertoff Risk Management ACSC Keynote

BOSTON – Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff gave enterprises a pep talk Wednesday during his keynote address at the Advanced Cyber Security Center’s annual conference. In a climate where massive financial services organizations such as JP Morgan Chase have been breached, the Whit...

Fedora 19 : fedup-0.9.0-2.fc19 (2014-14252)

This update works around a serious problem in Fedora 21 Beta which makes systems automatically shut down 15 minutes into the upgrade. Other improvements : - Adds --product=PRODUCT flag, required for upgrades to F21 - Uses host's config files in upgrade.img, which should fix various upgrade proble...

Google Releases Nogotofail Tool to Test Network Security

The last year has produced a rogues’ gallery of vulnerabilities in transport layer security implementations and new attacks on the key protocols, from Heartbleed to the Apple gotofail flaw to the recent POODLE attack. To help developers and security researchers identify applications that are...

Fedora 21 : sysklogd-1.5-18.fc21 (2014-12875)

Added patch for remote syslog PRI vulnerability 1142373 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora 21 : python-oauth2-1.5.211-8.fc21 (2014-12483)

Actually apply patch to fix CVE-2013-4347 thanks to Jason Green, Matt Wilson. Fix CVE-2013-4346 and CVE-2013-4347, thanks to Philippe Makowski. Fix CVE-2013-4346 and CVE-2013-4347, thanks to Philippe Makowski. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block direct...

Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2396-1)

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...

Fedora 21 : kernel-3.17.2-300.fc21 (2014-14126)

Linux v3.17.2. A wide variety of fixes across the tree. Even more KVM CVE fixes CVE fixes for KVM and SCTP. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as mu...

Fedora 20 : python-oauth2-1.5.211-8.fc20 (2014-12475)

Actually apply patch to fix CVE-2013-4347 thanks to Jason Green, Matt Wilson. Fix CVE-2013-4346 and CVE-2013-4347, thanks to Philippe Makowski. Fix CVE-2013-4346 and CVE-2013-4347, thanks to Philippe Makowski. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block direct...

Fedora 20 : rubygem-httpclient-2.4.0-2.fc20 (2014-13040)

Updated to 2.4.0 which stops hard-coding ssl v3 and allows ssl negotiation Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducin...

Fedora 20 : kernel-3.16.6-203.fc20 (2014-13773)

More KVM CVE fixes. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Government, Industry Focusing on Issue of Resiliency

WASHINGTON–As things stand right now, the United States has no overarching national information security policy or centralized agency responsible for defending the government’s networks in the event of a serious cyberattack. There have been many pushes over the years to change that and put one...

CVE-2014-4812

CVE-2014-4812 (IBM Security AppScan Source 8.x–9.0.1) : The installer exposes an open network port for a debug service, enabling remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by connecting to that port. The primary affected component is the installer for IBM Security AppScan Source; the underl...

The Bash Vulnerability: How to Protect your Environment

A recently discovered hole in the security of the Bourne-Again Shell bash has the majority of Unix/Linux including OS X admins sweating bullets. You should be, too--attackers have already developed exploits to unleash on unpatched web servers, network services and daemons that use shell scripts...