What does ‘consent to tracking’ really mean?

Thanks to Jerome Boursier for contributions. Post GDPR, many social media platforms will ask end users to consent to some form of tracking as a condition of using the service. It's easy to make assumptions as to what that means, especially when the actual terms of service or data policy for the...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

bind is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists as ISC BIND 9.1.0 through 9.8.4-P2 and 9.9.0 through 9.9.2-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit via malformed options data in an OPT resource record...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14719

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to block the blaze-ds-opt and blaze-ds-core classes from polymorphic deserialization...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14719

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to block the blaze-ds-opt and blaze-ds-core classes from polymorphic deserialization...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers fo...

CVE-2018-14644

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers fo...

CVE-2018-14644

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers fo...

PT-2018-12638 · Powerdns +3 · Powerdns Recursor +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PowerDNS Recursor versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.4 Description: A remote attacker can send a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT, leading to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. This issue arises when the parent zone is signed...

Equifax Has Chosen Experian. Wait, What?

A year after offering free credit monitoring to all Americans on account of its massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 148 million people, Equifax now says it has chosen to extend the offer by turning to a credit monitoring service offered by a top competitor --...

Microsoft Office: Disable Opt-in Wizard on first run

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: officeoptinwizard.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Disable Opt-in Wizard on first run Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is...

CVE-2016-7069

An issue has been found in dnsdist before 1.2.0 in the way EDNS0 OPT records are handled when parsing responses from a backend. When dnsdist is configured to add EDNS Client Subnet to a query, the response may contain an EDNS0 OPT record that has to be removed before forwarding the response to th...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7069

An issue has been found in dnsdist before 1.2.0 in the way EDNS0 OPT records are handled when parsing responses from a backend. When dnsdist is configured to add EDNS Client Subnet to a query, the response may contain an EDNS0 OPT record that has to be removed before forwarding the response to th...

CVE-2016-7069

An issue has been found in dnsdist before 1.2.0 in the way EDNS0 OPT records are handled when parsing responses from a backend. When dnsdist is configured to add EDNS Client Subnet to a query, the response may contain an EDNS0 OPT record that has to be removed before forwarding the response to th...

CVE-2016-7069

An issue has been found in dnsdist before 1.2.0 in the way EDNS0 OPT records are handled when parsing responses from a backend. When dnsdist is configured to add EDNS Client Subnet to a query, the response may contain an EDNS0 OPT record that has to be removed before forwarding the response to th...

llvm/llvm-opt-fuzzer--x86_64-instcombine: Heap-use-after-free in llvm::Value::assertModuleIsMaterializedImpl

Project: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5722313073360896 Project: llvm Fuzzer: libFuzzerllvmllvm-opt-fuzzer--x8664-instcombine Fuzz target binary: llvm-opt-fuzzer--x8664-instcombine Job Type: libfuzzerasanllvm Platform Id: linux Crash...

Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature

Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in the news after a San Diego man has filed the first lawsuit against Google over this issue. Last week,...

PT-2018-2765

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FasterXML jackson-databind versions 2.0.0 through 2.9.6 FasterXML jackson-databind versions 2.8.0 through 2.8.11.2 FasterXML jackson-databind versions 2.7.0 through 2.7.9.4 Description The issue is caused by the lack of protection of the...

Google Tracks its Users Even if They Opt-Out of Tracking

Google is tracking you, even if you turn off tracking: Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you've been. Google's support page on the subject states: "You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored." Tha...

opt-k.net XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-661011 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| opt-k.net Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

CCleaner Adds Data Collection Feature With No Way to Opt-Out

Like many others, do you also believe that the popular system-cleaning tool CCleaner was performing well before Avast acquired the software from Piriform last year? If yes, then pop-up advertisements in the previous CCleaner software version was not the last thing you have to deal with. Avast has...