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Pentaho BI Server 1.7.0.1062 and earlier does not set the autocomplete tag to off on web pages using a password field, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain the password...

Microsoft Windows Bluetooth Stack 'bthport.sys' Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges. Successful exploits will completely compromise affected computers. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnome-screensaver (MDVSA-2010:040)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in gnome-screensaver : gnome-screensaver 2.28.0 does not resume adherence to its activation settings after an inhibiting application becomes unavailable on the session bus, which allows physically proximate attackers to access an unattend...

CVE-2009-4642

The vulnerability CVE-2009-4642 affects gnome-screensaver 2.26.1, which relies on the gnome-session D-Bus interface to determine session idle time. This occurs even on Xfce environments (e.g., Xubuntu/Mythbuntu), enabling physically proximate attackers to access an unattended workstation where sc...

CVE-2010-0414

gnome-screensaver before 2.28.2 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass screen locking and access an unattended workstation by moving the mouse position to an external monitor and then disconnecting that monitor...

CVE-2010-0226

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives do not prevent password replay attacks, which allows physically proximate attackers to access the cleartext drive contents by providing a key that was captured in a USB data stream at an earlier time...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in xscreensaver in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris before snv112, when Xorg or Xnewt is used and RandR is enabled, allows physically proximate attackers to read a locked screen via unknown vectors related to XRandR resize events...

The Difficulty of Un-Authentication

By Bruce Schneier In computer security, a lot of effort is spent on the authentication problem. Whether it’s passwords, secure tokens, secret questions, image mnemonics, or something else, engineers are continually coming up with more complicated — and hopefully more secure — ways for you to prov...

Microsoft Windows Wireless LAN AutoConfig Frame Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability because the Wireless LAN AutoConfig Service fails to properly validate certain network frames. To exploit this issue, an attacker must be within close physical proximity of the affected computer. Attackers can exploit...

GLSA-200907-08 : Multiple Ralink wireless drivers: Execution of arbitrary code

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200907-08 Multiple Ralink wireless drivers: Execution of arbitrary code Aviv reported an integer overflow in multiple Ralink wireless card drivers when processing a probe request packet with a long SSID, possibly related to an...

Code injection

Toshiba Face Recognition 2.0.2.32 allows physically proximate attackers to obtain notebook access by presenting a large number of images for which the viewpoint and lighting have been modified to match a stored image of the authorized notebook user...

CVE-2009-0656

Asus SmartLogon 1.0.0005 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass "security functions" by presenting an image with a modified viewpoint that matches the posture of a stored image of the authorized notebook user...

OpenSC: Insufficient protection of smart card PIN

Background OpenSC is a smart card application that allows reading and writing via PKCS11. Description Chaskiel M Grundman reported that OpenSC uses weak permissions ADMIN file control information of 00 for the 5015 directory on smart cards and USB crypto tokens running Siemens CardOS M4. Impact A...

CVE-2008-4540

Windows Mobile 6 on the HTC Hermes device makes WLAN passwords available to an auto-completion mechanism for the password input field, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass password authentication and obtain WLAN access...

CVE-2008-4540

Windows Mobile 6 on the HTC Hermes device makes WLAN passwords available to an auto-completion mechanism for the password input field, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass password authentication and obtain WLAN access...

CVE-2008-4278

VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 before Update 3 build 119838 on Windows displays a user's password in cleartext when the password contains unspecified special characters, which allows physically proximate attackers to steal the password...

CVE-2008-3972

pkcs15-tool in OpenSC before 0.11.6 does not apply security updates to a smart card unless the card's label matches the "OpenSC" string, which might allow physically proximate attackers to exploit vulnerabilities that the card owner expected were patched, as demonstrated by exploitation of...

CVE-2008-2314

CVE-2008-2314 affects Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.4 where, if Exposé hot corners are enabled, a physically proximate attacker can access a locked session in sleep or screen saver mode without entering a password. This is a local access vulnerability, not clearly described as exploitable via a...

CVE-2008-1453

The Bluetooth stack in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, and Vista Gold and SP1, allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large series of Service Discovery Protocol SDP packets...

Microsoft Windows Bluetooth Stack Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability because its implementation of the Bluetooth stack fails to adequately handle a flood of specially crafted SDP Service Discovery Protocol requests. To exploit this issue, an attacker must be within close physical...