CVE-2016-1880

The Linux compatibility layer in the kernel in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, and 10.2 allows local users to read portions of kernel memory and potentially gain privilege via unspecified vectors, related to "handling of Linux futex robust lists."...

CVE-2016-1880: Undefined Security Weakness

The Linux compatibility layer in the kernel in FreeBSD 9.3, 10.1, and 10.2 allows local users to read portions of kernel memory and potentially gain privilege via unspecified vectors, related to "handling of Linux futex robust lists."...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: tre-0.8.0-18.20140228gitc2f5d13.fc23

TRE is a lightweight, robust, and efficient POSIX compatible regexp matching library with some exciting features such as approximate matching...

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Cross Site Scripting

i? Wowza Streaming Engine 4.5.0 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Vendor: Wowza Media Systems, LLC. Product web page: https://www.wowza.com Affected version: 4.5.0 build 18676 Platform: JSP Summary: Wowza Streaming Engine is robust, customizable, and scalable server software that powe...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: freexl-1.0.0i-1.fc21

FreeXL is a library to extract valid data from within an Excel spreadsheet .xls Design goals: simple and lightweight stable, robust and efficient easily and universally portable completely ignore any GUI-related oddity...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: freexl-1.0.0i-1.fc20

FreeXL is a library to extract valid data from within an Excel spreadsheet .xls Design goals: simple and lightweight stable, robust and efficient easily and universally portable completely ignore any GUI-related oddity...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: mksh-50c-1.fc19

mksh is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn shell pdksh, a bourne-compatible shell which is largely similar to the original AT&T Korn shell. It includes bug fixes and feature improvements in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use,...

Factlink: Password Complexity very low.

There is only one rule which you have set that minimum characters should be 6. But you need to set robust rule for password quality. Because I was able to set my password 123456 which is really common and anyone can hack it. Recommendation - Provide robust rules including upper lower letters,...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 8337)

This update for glibc contains the following fixes : - Fix integer overflows in malloc. CVE-2013-4332, bnc839870 - Fix buffer overflow in glob. bnc691365 - Fix buffer overflow in strcoll. CVE-2012-4412, bnc779320 - Update mount flags in . bnc791928 - Fix buffer overrun in regexp matcher...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 8335)

This update for glibc contains the following fixes : - Fix integer overflows in malloc. CVE-2013-4332, bnc839870 - Fix buffer overflow in glob. bnc691365 - Fix buffer overflow in strcoll. CVE-2012-4412, bnc779320 - Update mount flags in . bnc791928 - Fix buffer overrun in regexp matcher...

Security and policy surrounding bring your own devices (BYOD)

As the proliferation of devices continues to capture the imagination of consumers, and has ignited what is referred to as bring your own device BYOD revolution, many IT departments across the globe are now facing increased security considerations. While organizations encourage BYOD for cost savin...

Linux/x86 - Egghunter (0x5090) Shellcode (38 bytes)

Linux/x86 - Egghunter 0x5090 Shellcode 38 bytes. Shellcode exploit for Linuxx86 platform / Title : egghunter shellcode : hunter 30 bytes, marker 8 bytes, shellcode 28 bytes Date : 28 May 2013 Author : Russell Willis Testd on: Linux/x86 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 i686 Comments: Using sigaction system cal...

Mobile Terminal Application for Intermittent Connectivity: Mosh

Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes. This is a replacement for SSH. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance inks. Mosh is free...

kernel: futex: clear robust_list on execve

The robust futex implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28 does not properly handle processes that make exec system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges by writing to a memory location in a child process...

Reading material

Stuxnet expert and industry gadfly Ralph Langner was in attendance at S4 this year, as he has been in past years. This year, however, Langner had a new book to promote: Robust Control System Networks – a kind of call to arms for the industrial control sector to respond to a ‘post Stuxnet’ world...

Fedora 15 : viewvc-1.1.11-1.fc15 (2011-7185)

security fix: remove user-reachable override of cvsdb row limit - fix broken standalone.py -c and -d options handling - add --help option to standalone.py - fix stack trace when asked to checkout a directory issue 478 - improve memory usage and speed of revision log markup issue 477 - fix broken...

Fedora 13 : viewvc-1.1.11-1.fc13 (2011-7198)

security fix: remove user-reachable override of cvsdb row limit - fix broken standalone.py -c and -d options handling - add --help option to standalone.py - fix stack trace when asked to checkout a directory issue 478 - improve memory usage and speed of revision log markup issue 477 - fix broken...

openSUSE Security Update : openssl-CVE-2009-4355.patch (openssl-CVE-2009-4355.patch-1833)

Incorrect use of an openssl cleanup function can lead to memory leaks in applications. For example an ssl enabled web server such as apache that uses php, curl and openssl leaks memory if a SIGHUP signal was sent to apache. The openssl cleanup function was made more robust to avoid memory leaks...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenLDAP2 (ZYPP Patch Number 6485)

This update of openldap2 makes SSL certificate verification more robust against uses of the special character \0 in the subjects name. CVE-2009-2408 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : OpenLDAP2 (YOU Patch Number 12506)

This update of openldap2 makes SSL certificate verification more robust against uses of the special character \0 in the subject's name. CVE-2009-2408 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...