Mozilla: Key pinning is ignored when overridable errors are encountered (MFSA 2015-67)

It was found that Firefox skipped key-pinning checks when handling an error that could be overridden by the user for example an expired certificate error. This flaw allowed a user to override a pinned certificate, which is an action the user should not be able to perform...

firefox: multiple issues

CVE-2015-2722, CVE-2015-2733 Use-after-free in workers while using XMLHttpRequest: Security researcher Looben Yan used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two related use-after-free vulnerabilities that occur when using XMLHttpRequest in concert with either shared or dedicated workers. These...

Key pinning is ignored when overridable errors are encountered — Mozilla

Mozilla security engineer David Keeler reported that when an overridable error is encountered, such as those for expired certificates or a host name does not match a certificate, pinning checks can be be skipped. This would allow for a user to override a pinned certificate when they should not be...

Amazon Patches Certificate Vulnerabilities in Fire Phones

Amazon last week patched three vulnerabilities in its Fire smartphones, including two in its Certinstaller package that put devices at risk. An attacker could take advantage of the vulnerability in the package, which allows mobile apps to install certificates on Amazon Fire devices without user...

Fedora 22 : curl-7.40.0-5.fc22 (2015-10155)

implement public key pinning for NSS backend 1195771 - fix lingering HTTP credentials in connection re-use CVE-2015-3236 - prevent SMB from sending off unrelated memory contents CVE-2015-3237 - curl-config --libs now works on x8664 without libcurl-devel.x8664 1228363 Note that Tenable Network...

Reddit to Move to HTTPS-Only

In the two years since the details of the NSA’s deep penetration of the Internet infrastructure began to emerge, there has been a major movement afoot among Web companies to encrypt more and more of their resources and services. The latest large property to make this move is Reddit, which by the...

Second Crypto Bug in Networking Library Could Affect 25,000 Apps

A few weeks after the developers of the AFNetworking library that’s popular among iOS and OS X app developers patched a serious bug in the library that enabled man-in-the-middle attacks, another, similar flaw has surfaced. The new vulnerability is related to how the AFNetworking library handles...

Shopify: Multiple issues on Checkout Process

Description While reviewing the Shopify POS application we found that the application was encrypting the CHD information, but it was leaving the amount outside of the payload and the post lacked any sort of HMAC signature preventing replay attacks. In addition, given the application does not...

Shopify: Lack of SSL Pinning on POS Application ( iOS )

Description Given that this is a POS application and handle CHD, cryptographic security is of most importance. Applications such as Square, Amazons POS, etc. have already implemented this. The iOS application is correctly checking for SSL certs using the os keychain, but due to the lack of checki...

CA Tied to Chinese Registrar Issued Unauthorized Google Certificates

Google security engineers, investigating fraudulent certificates issued for several of the company’s domains, discovered that a Chinese certificate authority was using an intermediate CA, MCS Holdings, that issued the unauthorized Google certificates, and could have issued certificates for...

Mozilla Firefox < 36.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3014)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-3014 advisory. - kvm: fix excessive pages un-pinning in kvmiommumap error path. Quentin Casasnovas Orabug: 20687314 CVE-2014-3601 CVE-2014-8369 CVE-2014-3601 -...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.248.3 - kvm: fix excessive pages un-pinning in kvmiommumap error path. Quentin Casasnovas Orabug: 20687314 CVE-2014-3601 CVE-2014-8369 CVE-2014-3601 - Revert 'mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madviseMADVWILLNEED support' Guangyu Sun Orabug: 20673281 CVE-2014-8173 2.6.39-400.248.2 -...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-504.12.2 - infiniband core: Prevent integer overflow in ibumemget address arithmetic Doug Ledford 1181173 1179327 CVE-2014-8159 2.6.32-504.12.1 - fs splice: perform generic write checks Eric Sandeen 1163798 1155900 CVE-2014-7822 2.6.32-504.11.1 - virt kvm: excessive pages un-pinning in...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2505-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2505-1 advisory. Matthew Noorenberghe discovered that Mozilla domains in the allowlist could make UITour API calls from background tabs. If one of these domains were...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0832

Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 does not properly recognize the equivalence of domain names with and without a trailing . dot character, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the HPKP and HSTS protection mechanisms by constructing a URL with this character and leveraging access to an X.5...

Firefox < 36 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 36.0. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue exists that allows whitelisted Mozilla domains to make 'UITour' API calls while UI Tour pages are present in background tabs. This allows an...

Appended period to hostnames can bypass HPKP and HSTS protections — Mozilla

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura reported that when certificate pinning is set to "strict" mode, a period '.' appended to a hostname in the address of a site allowed the bypass key pinning HPKP and HTTP Strict Transport Security HSTS. Sites with a period appended were treated as having a...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2015:0077-2)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 35.0 bnc910669 Notable features : - Firefox Hello with new rooms-based conversations model - Implemented HTTP Public Key Pinning Extension for enhanced authentication of encrypted connections Security fixes : - MFSA 2015-01/CVE-2014-8634/CVE-2014-8635...

Security update for MozillaFirefox (important)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 35.0 bnc910669 Notable features: Firefox Hello with new rooms-based conversations model Implemented HTTP Public Key Pinning Extension for enhanced authentication of encrypted connections Security fixes: MFSA 2015-01/CVE-2014-8634/CVE-2014-8635 Miscellaneous...