openSUSE Security Update : librsvg (openSUSE-2016-608)

This librsvg update to version 2.40.15 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-4348: DoS parsing SVGs with circular definitions rsvgcssnormalizefontsize function boo977986 Bugs fixed : - Actually scale the image if required, regression fix from upstream git bgo760262. -...

OpenSSL Past, Present and Future

Rarely does anything have a defined turning point in its history, a single day where people can point and say that was the day everything changed. For OpenSSL, that day was April 7, 2014, the day that Heartbleed became part of the security lexicon. Heartbleed was a critical vulnerability in the...

Content with inherited restrictions still appears in search results

I don't know the full story here but there have been numerous reports on EAC now of cases where clicking on a search result gives a 'Not permitted' response. Further investigation by an admin will show that in these cases a parent or grandparent has viewing restrictions applied. It would appear...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sudo on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131121)

A flaw was found in the way sudo handled time stamp files. An attacker able to run code as a local user and with the ability to control the system clock could possibly gain additional privileges by running commands that the victim user was allowed to run via sudo, without knowing the victim's...

[VSD] (Virtual Section Dumper) Just another Virtual Section Dumper for Windows Processes

What's VSD? VSD Virtual Section Dumper is intented to be a tool to visualize and dump the memory regions of a running 32 bits or a 64 bits process in many ways. For example, you can dump the entire process and fix the PE Header , dump a given range of memory or even list and dump every virtual...

Scientific Linux Security Update : spice-xpi on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The spice-xpi package provides a plug-in that allows the SPICE client to run from within Mozilla Firefox. A race condition was found in the way the SPICE Firefox plug-in and the SPICE client communicated. A local attacker could use this flaw to trick the plug-in and the SPICE client into...

kernel security update

kernel: 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 - xen x8664: check address on trap handlers or guest callbacks Paolo Bonzini 813430 813431 CVE-2012-0217 - xen x8664: Do not execute sysret with a non-canonical return address Paolo Bonzini 813430 813431 CVE-2012-0217 - xen x86: prevent hv boot on AMD CPUs with Erratum...

Book Review: IPhone Applications Tune-up

Book Review: IPhone Applications Tune-up Packt recently published a new book- IPhone Applications Tune-up. The book is of course about programming for the iPhone. But there is one chapter on maintainability that is far broader applicability than just the iPhone. This review was written by Wes...

HttpBlitz Web Server - Denial of Service

HttpBlitz Web Server - Denial of Service !/usr/bin/python Title: HttpBlitz DOS Date: 12/24/2010 Author: otoy Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/httpblitz/files/HttpBlitz.msi/download Tested on: Windows XP SP3 ====================================================================== / / /...

CVE-2008-3970

pammount 0.10 through 0.45, when luserconf is enabled, does not verify mountpoint and source ownership before mounting a user-defined volume, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a local mount...