UltraDNS Dealing with DDoS Attack

UPDATE – UltraDNS said it has mitigated a distributed denial of service DDoS attack for most of its customers after the service was held down for most of the day. “Currently, only customers utilizing a segment of UltraDNS Name Server addresses are experiencing resolution latency due to intermitte...

Memory corruption

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHostResolver::ConditionallyRefreshRecord function in libxul.so in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap...

CVE-2014-1532

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHostResolver::ConditionallyRefreshRecord function in libxul.so in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2185-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2185-1 advisory. Bobby Holley, Carsten Book, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Nathan Froyd, John Schoenick, Karl Tomlinson, Vladimir Vukicevic a...

Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsHostResolver (MFSA 2014-46)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHostResolver::ConditionallyRefreshRecord function in libxul.so in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An updated firefox package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsHostResolver (MFSA 2014-46)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHostResolver::ConditionallyRefreshRecord function in libxul.so in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap...

SeaMonkey < 2.26 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of SeaMonkey is a version prior to 2.26 and is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue exists in the Network Security NSS library due to improper handling of IDNA domain prefixes for wildcard certificates. This issue could allow man-in-...

Firefox < 29.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Firefox is a version prior to 29.0 and is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue exists in the Network Security NSS library due to improper handling of IDNA domain prefixes for wildcard certificates. This issue could allow man-in-...

Use-after-free in nsHostResolver — Mozilla

Security researchers Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber of the BlackBerry Security Automated Analysis Team used the Address Sanitizer tool while fuzzing to discover a use-after-free during host resolution in some circumstances. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash...

Thunderbird < 24.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)

The installed version of Thunderbird is a version prior to version 24.5. It is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Memory issues exist that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2014-1518, CVE-2014-1519 - An out-of-bounds read issue exists when decoding...

POCO C++ Libraries NetSSL library fails to properly validate wildcard certificates

Overview The POCO C++ Libraries NetSSL library fails to properly validate wildcard certificates, allowing an attacker to trick the victim application into trusting a malicious certificate. Description CWE-350: Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action Guenter Obiltschnig o...

CVE-2014-0054

The Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.8 and 4.0.0 before 4.0.2 does not disable external entity resolution, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via crafted XML, aka an XML Extern...

Framework: XML External Entity (XXE) injection flaw

The SourceHttpMessageConverter in Spring MVC in Spring Framework before 3.2.5 and 4.0.0.M1 through 4.0.0.RC1 does not disable external entity resolution, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via crafted XML, aka an XML External...

Framework: XML External Entity (XXE) injection flaw

The Spring OXM wrapper in Spring Framework before 3.2.4 and 4.0.0.M1, when using the JAXB marshaller, does not disable entity resolution, which allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via an XML external entity declaration in...

Crack: Arbitrary code execution

Background Crack is a really simple JSON and XML parsing Ruby gem, ripped from Merb and Rails. Description An XML parameter parsing vulnerability has been discovered in Crack. Impact A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service...

grep: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background grep is the GNU regular expression matcher. Description An integer overflow flaw has been discovered in grep. Impact An attacker could entice a user to run grep on a specially crafted file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial...

ESA-2014-018: EMC Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ESA-2014-018.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2014-018: EMC Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition Information Disclosure Vulnerability EMC Identifier: ESA-2014-018 CVE Identifier: CVE-2014-2276 Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: CVSS: 5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N...

Framework: XML External Entity (XXE) injection flaw

The Spring OXM wrapper in Spring Framework before 3.2.4 and 4.0.0.M1, when using the JAXB marshaller, does not disable entity resolution, which allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, and conduct CSRF attacks via an XML external entity declaration in...

[security bulletin] HPSBMU02966 rev.1 - HP Operations Orchestration, Unauthorized Access to Information

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Note: the current version of the following document is available here: https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/ docDisplay?docId=emrna-c04125866 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c04125866 Version: 1 HPSBMU02966 rev....