USN-3151-4: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or run arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : vim (SUSE-SU-2016:2942-1)

This update for vim fixes the following security issues : - Fixed CVE-2016-1248 an arbitrary command execution vulnerability bsc1010685 This update for vim fixes the following issues : - Fix build with Python 3.5. bsc988903 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding descriptio...

Raspberry Pi Zero Malicious USB Attack: PoisonTap

Raspberry Pi Zero Malicious USB Attack Exploits locked/password protected computers over USB, drops persistent WebSocket-based backdoor, exposes internal router, and siphons cookies using Raspberry Pi Zero & Node.js. PoisonTap produces a cascading effect by exploiting the existing trust in variou...

PoisonTap Steals Cookies, Drops Backdoors From Password Protected Computers

Even locked, password-protected computers are no rival for Samy Kamkar and his seemingly endless parade of gadgets. His latest, PoisonTap, is a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero device running Node.js that’s retrofitted to emulate an Ethernet device over USB. Assuming a victim has left their web browser open,...

USN-3129-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Ondrej Kozina discovered that the keyring interface in the Linux kernel contained a buffer overflow when displaying timeout events via the /proc/keys interface. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-7042...

Lynis 2.4.0 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

USN-3107-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges...

USN-3106-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability (USN-3106-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3106-3 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mapping...

USN-3099-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive Offload GRO processing implementations in the Linux kernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption, leading to a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-7039 Marco Grassi discovered a...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3084-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3084-3 advisory. Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt...

USN-3084-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt system-call auditing. CVE-2016-6136 It was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM implementation in the Linux kernel for did...

MITM BLE Security Assessment: gattacker

MITM BLE Security Assessment A Node.js package for BLE Bluetooth Low Energy Man-in-the-Middle & more The tool creates exact copy of attacked device in Bluetooth layer, and then tricks mobile application to interpret its broadcasts and connect to it instead the original device. At the same time, i...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3070-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3070-2 advisory. A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL...

USN-3070-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. CVE-2016-1237 Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacke...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: cryptobone-1.0.5-1.fc23

The Crypto Bone is a secure messaging system that makes sure a user's email is always encrypted without burdening the user with the message key management. Based on a GUI and a separate daemon, both ease-of-use and security are assured by a novel approach to encryption key management. While the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: cryptobone-1.0.5-1.fc24

The Crypto Bone is a secure messaging system that makes sure a user's email is always encrypted without burdening the user with the message key management. Based on a GUI and a separate daemon, both ease-of-use and security are assured by a novel approach to encryption key management. While the...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3056-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3056-1 advisory. Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could u...

USN-3056-1: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

This ATM Hack Allows Crooks to Steal Money From Chip-and-Pin Cards

Forget about security! It turns out that the Chip-and-PIN cards are just as easy to clone as magnetic stripe cards. It took researchers just a simple chip and pin hack to withdraw up to $50,000 in cash from an ATM in America in under 15 minutes. We have been told that EMV Europay, MasterCard and...