EvilGnome: A New Backdoor Implant Spies On Linux Desktop Users

Security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Linux spyware that's currently fully undetected across all major antivirus security software products, and includes rarely seen functionalities with regards to most Linux malware, The Hacker News learned. It's a known fact that there are a very...

Tor Linux Sandbox Breakout Via X11

Tor: Linux sandbox breakout via X11 From inside the Linux sandbox described in https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-70-released, it is still possible to talk to the X server without any restrictions. This means that a compromised browser can e.g. use the XTEST X protocol extension at...

Tor (Linux) - X11 Linux Sandbox Breakout

Tor Linux - X11 Linux Sandbox Breakout / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1293&desc=2 EDIT: I mixed up two different sandboxes; see the comment below for a correction. From inside the Linux sandbox described in , it is still possible to talk to the X server withou...

libsndfile 1.0.25 Heap Overflow

!/usr/bin/env perl Author: Marco Romano @nemux - 07 Oct 2015 PoC for libsndfile SWF/Audio play - pulseaudio - libsndfile ?? not tested - Email attachment - TCP socket connection for audio server only - File upload ex. server side audio file manipulation, interactive voice responder - etc...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201402-10

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201402-10 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription...

[ MDVSA-2015:134 ] pulseaudio

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:134 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ Package : pulseaudio Date : March 29, 2015 Affected: Business Server 2.0 Problem Description: Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability:...

PulseAudio DoS

Crash on empty UDP packet...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pulseaudio (MDVSA-2015:134)

Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability : PulseAudio versions shipped in mbs2 were vulnerable to a remote RTP attack which could crash the PulseAudio server simply by sending an empty UDP packet. Additionally, the version of PulseAudio shipped in mbs2 was a pre-release...

MGASA-2014-0440 Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability

PulseAudio versions shipped in Mageia 3 and 4 were vulnerable to a remote RTP attack which could crash the PulseAudio server simply by sending an empty UDP packet. Additionally, the version of PulseAudio shipped in Mageia 4 was a pre-release version of PulseAudio v5 and has been updated to the...

Updated pulseaudio package fixes RTP remote crash vulnerability

PulseAudio versions shipped in Mageia 3 and 4 were vulnerable to a remote RTP attack which could crash the PulseAudio server simply by sending an empty UDP packet. Additionally, the version of PulseAudio shipped in Mageia 4 was a pre-release version of PulseAudio v5 and has been updated to the...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : pulseaudio (SAT Patch Number 9568)

The following security issue is fixed in this update : - Fixed a remote denial of service attack in module-rtp-recv. CVE-2014-3970 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text...

openSUSE Security Update : pulseaudio (openSUSE-2014-477)

This update fixes the following security issue: bnc881524 CVE-2014-3970 - Denial of service in module-rtp-recv %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2014-477. The text...

openSUSE Security Update : openSUSE-2014- (openSUSE-2014--1)

This update fixes the following security issue: bnc881524 CVE-2014-3970 - Denial of service in module-rtp-recv %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2014/08/08. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Fedora Update for pulseaudio FEDORA-2014-8183

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: pulseaudio-5.0-7.fc20

PulseAudio is a sound server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon ESOUND...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: qmmp-0.7.7-1.fc20.1

This program is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to winamp or xmms. Main opportunities: Winamp and xmms skins support plugins support Ogg Vorbis support native FLAC support Musepack support WavePack support ModPlug support PCM WAVE support CD Audio...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: paprefs-0.9.10-7.fc20

PulseAudio Preferences paprefs is a simple GTK based configuration dialog for the PulseAudio sound server...

Fedora 20 : qt-mobility-1.2.2-0.16.20140317git169da60c.fc20 / audacious-plugins-3.4.3-2.fc20 / etc (2014-8183)

Rebase current post-4.0 snapshot to 5.0 release, see also: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5.0/ This update restores compatibility with pulseaudio upstream ABI, and includes rebuilds of affected fedora packages. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

PulseAudio 0.9.5 Assert() Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23240/info PulseAudio is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability. Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to consume excessive system resources until the software becomes unresponsive to further calls,...

openSUSE Security Update : java-1_7_0-openjdk (openSUSE-SU-2013:0199-1)

java-170-openjdk was updated to icedtea-2.3.4 fixing bugs and also severe security issues : - Security fixes - S8004933, CVE-2012-3174: Improve MethodHandle interaction with libraries - S8006017, CVE-2013-0422: Improve lookup resolutions - S8006125: Update MethodHandles library interactions - Bug...