Instagram Patches Brute-Force Authentication Flaws

Facebook on Thursday patched a pair of vulnerabilities that enabled brute-force attacks against Instagram passwords, and also hardened its password policy. Researcher Arne Swinnen privately disclosed the flaws in December and in February respectively. One bug was patched in February, while the...

Deluge of Apple Patches Fix Vulnerabilities in OS X, iOS, Safari, and More

In addition to fixing the serious crypto vulnerabilities in iMessage that surfaced yesterday, Apple also deployed patches for nearly all of its products, including Safari, OS X, iOS, Apple TV’s tvOS, and watchOS. The iOS update, 9.3, is arguably the most pressing given the cryptographic issue dug...

Johns Hopkins Researchers: Crypto Flaws Endanger iMessage Integrity

When Apple released its iOS Security Guide for public consumption, it was an unprecedented look inside the security architecture behind its products. For cryptographer and professor Matthew Green and a team of four Johns Hopkins University graduate students, it was a road map to understanding not...

Fedora 23 : okhttp-2.7.4-1.fc23 / okio-1.6.0-1.fc23 (2016-65b7608d8b)

This update fixes a security vulnerability which allows an attacker to bypass certificate pinning and cause OkHttp not not to validate that the pinned certificate was in the chain to a trusted certificate authority. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

Here's How Websites Are Tracking You Online

Webmasters can track all your activities on the Internet – even if you have already cleared your browsing history and deleted all saved cookies. A researcher demonstrated two unpatched flaws that can be exploited to track Millions of Internet users, allowing malicious website owners: 1. List...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-0674)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

XenMobile New Port Requirement for ADS Connectivity

Overview Citrix is making security enhancements to XenMobile in the form of certificate pinning. This feature includes a new Citrix Auto Discovery Service ADS access requirement that must be enabled in every customer environment whether you choose to use the certificate pinning feature or not. Wh...

Mozilla Firefox < 39.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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CentOS Update for thunderbird CESA-2015:1455 centos5

Check the version of thunderbird SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882229";...

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...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2656-2) (Logjam)

USN-2656-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and later releases. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to...

USN-2656-2: Firefox vulnerabilities

USN-2656-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and later releases. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remot...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2015-480) (Logjam)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 39.0 to fix 21 security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-2724/CVE-2015-2725/CVE-2015-2726: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards bsc935979. - CVE-2015-2727: Local files or privileged URLs in pages can be opened into new tabs bsc935979. -...

Security update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss (important)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 39.0 to fix 21 security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2015-2724/CVE-2015-2725/CVE-2015-2726: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards bsc935979. - CVE-2015-2727: Local files or privileged URLs in pages can be opened into new tabs bsc935979. -...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2656-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2656-1 advisory. Karthikeyan Bhargavan discovered that NSS incorrectly handled state transitions for the TLS state machine. If a remote attacker were able to perform a...

thunderbird: multiple issues

CVE-2015-2724, CVE-2015-2725, CVE-2015-2726 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards: Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under...

Firefox ESR < 38.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Logjam)

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 38.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A security downgrade vulnerability exists due to a flaw in Network Security Services NSS. When a client allows for a ECDHEECDSA exchange, but the server doe...

Firefox ESR < 38.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X) (Logjam)

The version of Firefox ESR installed on the remote Mac OS X host is\ prior to 38.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A security downgrade vulnerability exists due to a flaw in Network Security Services NSS. When a client allows for a ECDHEECDSA exchange, but the server...

CVE-2015-2741

Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1, and Thunderbird before 38.1 do not enforce key pinning upon encountering an X.509 certificate problem that generates a user dialog, which allows user-assisted man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by triggerin...

Design/Logic Flaw

Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1, and Thunderbird before 38.1 do not enforce key pinning upon encountering an X.509 certificate problem that generates a user dialog, which allows user-assisted man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by triggerin...