Windows Botnet Spreading Mirai Variant

A Chinese-speaking attacker is spreading a Mirai variant from a repurposed Windows-based botnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab published a report today, and said the code was written by an experienced developer who also built in the capability to spread the IoT malware to Linux machines under...

Simple OpenVPN Raspberry Pi Installer: piVPN

Simple OpenVPN Raspberry Pi Installer This is a set of shell scripts that serve to easily turn your Raspberry Pi TM into a VPN server using the free, open-source OpenVPN software. The master branch of this script installs and configures OpenVPN on Raspbian Jessie and has been tested on Ubuntu 14....

USB Key Cleaner: CIRCLean

USB Key Cleaner Malware regularly uses USB sticks to infect victims, and the abuse of USB sticks is a common vector of infection. CIRCLean is an independent hardware solution to clean documents from untrusted obtained USB keys / USB sticks. The device automatically converts untrusted documents in...

USN-3190-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Mikulas Patocka discovered that the asynchronous multibuffer cryptographic daemon mcryptd in the Linux kernel did not properly handle being invoked with incompatible algorithms. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10147 It was discovered that a...

USN-3189-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mikulas Patocka discovered that the asynchronous multibuffer cryptographic daemon mcryptd in the Linux kernel did not properly handle being invoked with incompatible algorithms. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-10147 Qidan He discovered that the...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities (USN-3169-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3169-3 advisory. Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after- free in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel...

USN-3170-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ipv6 icmp implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check data structures on send. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-9919 Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer overflows existed in the...

USN-3169-3 linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities

Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after- free in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-9794 Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer...

USN-3169-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after- free in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-9794 Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer...

Raspberry Pi launches PIXEL OS for Mac and PCs

Here's the Raspberry Pi's Christmas treat for tech community! The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released an experimental version of its lightweight Linux-based Debian operating system called PIXEL OS that can run on most standard desktop computers ships with Windows and Mac OS X without the need of...

USN-3162-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the...

USN-3161-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2015-8964 It was discovered that the Video For Linux Two v4l2 implementation in the Linux kernel d...

USN-3152-2: 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerability (USN-3151-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3151-4 advisory. 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 o...

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...