Healthcare IT Security Practices Poor, Systems Compromised

A new report from the SANS Institute warns that the push to digitize all health care records along with the emergence of HealthCare.gov and the general proliferation of electronic protected health information ePHI online will only exacerbate the security problems faced by those that store sensiti...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2112-1)

Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2013-2929 Dave Jones and Vince Weaver reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's perf event subsystem that allows...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-2108-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's compat ioctls for Adaptec AACRAID scsi raid devices. An unprivileged local user could send administrative commands to these devices potentially compromising the data stored on the device. CVE-2013-6383 mpd reported an information leak in the recvfrom,...

Unsupported Cisco Operating System

According to its version, the remote Cisco operating system is obsolete and is no longer supported. Lack of support implies that no new security patches for the product will be released by the vendor. As a result, it is likely to contain security vulnerabilities. TRUSTED...

Fedora 20 : kernel-3.13.3-201.fc20 (2014-2576)

The 3.13.3 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The 3.13.2 rebase contains support for additional hardware, some new features and a number of important bug fixes across the tree. Fixes CVE-2014-0069 cifs: incorrect handling of bogus user pointers Note that Tenable...

Microsoft Windows SMB Registry : Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 Service Pack Detection

It was possible to determine the service pack version of the Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 system by reading the registry key 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\CSDVersion'. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid72543; scriptversion"1.5";...

Fedora 20 : python-2.7.5-10.fc20 (2014-2394)

Buffer overflow fix. See upstream issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue20246 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...

CSWorks Software SQL Injection Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Researcher John Leitch, working with HP’s Zero Day Initiative ZDI, has identified an SQL injection vulnerability in CSWorks’ CSWorks software framework. CSWorks has produced an updated version that mitigates this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED...

Phony SSL Certs Spoof Google, Facebook, GoDaddy, others

Dozens of phony SSL certificates were discovered this week mocking legitimate certs from banks, e-commerce sites, ISPs and social networks. If a user stumbled over one of the bogus certificates on a mobile device it could put them at risk for a man-in-the-middle attack. Disguised as official...

400 Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack Alarmingly Simple

The largest distributed denial of service attack on public record was reported this week, and with it came many alarming numbers, not only in the volume of traffic generated 400 Gbps at its peak, but in the number of Network Time Protocol servers involved 4,592 on 1,298 networks as well as the...

Fedora 19 : firefox-27.0-1.fc19 / xulrunner-27.0-1.fc19 (2014-2051)

See following page for changes: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/27.0/releasenotes/ 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 witho...

Mozilla Network Security Services释放后重利用内存破坏漏洞(CVE-2014-1490)

BUGTRAQ ID: 65335 CVECAN ID: CVE-2014-1490 Mozilla Network Security Services是一组库，用于支持跨平台开发安全的客户端和服务器应用。 Mozilla Network Security Services 3.15.4之前版本中，libssl存在竞争条件，可使远程攻击者用恢复握手触发会话票据错误重置，导致拒绝服务。 0 Mozilla Network Security Services = 3.15.4 厂商补丁： Mozilla -------...

[BSA-091] Security Update for nss

intrigeri uploaded new packages for nss which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2013-1739 DSA-2790-1 A flaw was found in the way the Mozilla Network Security Service library nss read uninitialized data when there was a decryption failure. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a...

[AFF v0.1] Anonymous FTP Finder

Anonymous FTP Scanner AFF is a Security tool for penetration testers, network admins etc. The tool is written in Python with wxPython as GUI and compiled with Py2exe. AFF can scan large networks for Anonymous FTP Servers and regular FTP:s. Example of Anonymous FTP Server is network equipment, Mul...

Fedora 20 : libpng10-1.0.60-6.fc20 (2014-1778)

This update fixes an issue in which an image with a missing or empty palette could cause a crash of a libpng10-using application CVE-2013-6954. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1490

Race condition in libssl in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibl...

CVE-2014-1491

Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote...

CVE-2014-1490

Race condition in libssl in Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibl...

CVE-2014-1491

Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote...

Authentication flaw

Mozilla Network Security Services NSS before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, does not properly restrict public values in Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, which makes it easier for remote...