A week in security (September 18 – September 24)

Last week, we kept you updated on our blog about the infected versions of CCleaner that were offered as downloads on the official servers. We also warned you against a fake IRS notice that delivers a customized spying tool, some of the threats currently facing gamers, and a Netflix scam that has...

Adobe Private PGP Key Leak a Blunder, But It Could Have Been Worse

Adobe suffered at a minimum a PR black eye on Friday when one of its private PGP keys was inadvertently published to its Product Incident Security Response Team PSIRT blog. The company’s public and private key pair were published together, both of which could be used to either decrypt messages se...

Easy Intelligence Gathering: theHarvester

The objective of this program is to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database. This tool is intended to help Penetration testers in the early stages of the penetration te...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1087-2] icedove/thunderbird regression update

Package : icedove Version : 1:52.3.0-4deb7u2 The update for icedove/thunderbird issued as DLA-1087-1 did not build on i386. This update corrects this. For reference, the original advisory text follows. Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Multiple memor...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1090-1] tcpdump security update

Package : tcpdump Version : 4.9.0-1deb7u2 CVE ID : CVE-2017-11108 CVE-2017-11541 CVE-2017-11542 CVE-2017-11543 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump, a command-line network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities might result in denial of service application crash. For Debian 7...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1080-1] gnupg security update

Package : gnupg Version : 1.4.12-7+deb7u9 CVE ID : CVE-2017-7526 Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal and Yuval Yarom discovered that gnupg is prone to a local side-channel attack allowing full key...

About the security content of Safari 10.1 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: cryptlib-3.4.3.1-7.fc26

Cryptlib is a powerful security toolkit that allows even inexperienced cryp to programmers to easily add encryption and authentication services to their software. The high-level interface provides anyone with the ability to add strong security capabilities to an application in as little as half a...

Apache Subversion Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Apache Subversion has released version 1.9.7 which addresses an arbitrary code execution vulnerability. I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.9.7. Please choose the mirror closest to you by visiting: http://subversion.apache.org/download.cgi?update=201708081800recommended-relea...

gnutls: Heap read overflow in read-packet.c

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the readattribute function in GnuTLS before 3.3.26 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8 allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted OpenPGP certificate...

Authentication flaw

s2k.js in OpenPGP.js will decrypt arbitrary messages regardless of passphrase for crafted PGP keys which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication if message decryption is used as an authentication mechanism via a crafted symmetrically encrypted PGP message...

About the security content of iCloud for Windows 6.2.2 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

CVE-2017-11353

yadm yet another dotfile manager 1.10.0 has a race condition related to the behavior of git commands in setting permissions for new files and directories, which potentially allows access to SSH and PGP keys...

CVE-2017-11353

yadm yet another dotfile manager 1.10.0 has a race condition related to the behavior of git commands in setting permissions for new files and directories, which potentially allows access to SSH and PGP keys...

Race condition

yadm yet another dotfile manager 1.10.0 has a race condition related to the behavior of git commands in setting permissions for new files and directories, which potentially allows access to SSH and PGP keys...

CVE-2017-11353

yadm yet another dotfile manager 1.10.0 has a race condition related to the behavior of git commands in setting permissions for new files and directories, which potentially allows access to SSH and PGP keys...

CVE-2017-11353

yadm yet another dotfile manager 1.10.0 has a race condition related to the behavior of git commands in setting permissions for new files and directories, which potentially allows access to SSH and PGP keys...

CVE-2017-11353

yadm yet another dotfile manager 1.10.0 has a race condition related to the behavior of git commands in setting permissions for new files and directories, which potentially allows access to SSH and PGP keys...

CVE-2017-11353

CVE-2017-11353 affects yadm (yet another dotfile manager) version 1.10.0. The issue is a race condition related to how git commands set permissions for new files and directories, which potentially allows access to SSH and PGP keys. The connected documents provide this description but do not inclu...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: pius-2.2.4-1.fc25

The PGP Individual UID Signer PIUS is a tool for individually signing all of the UIDs on a set of keys and encrypt-emailing each one to it's respective email address. This drastically reduces the time and errors involved in signing keys after a key signing party...