Linux Australia Breached by Hackers

Linux Australia, a consortium in charge of organizing Linux conferences Down Under, acknowledged over the weekend it was breached by attackers who were able to secure access to one of its servers, and with it, potential user information. In a detailed email to users on Saturday, the group’s...

Gap Widens Between Attackers, BIOS Forensics, Research

Vendors have made important strides in locking down operating systems, patching memory-related vulnerabilities and other bugs that could lead to remote code execution or give hackers a stealthy presence on a machine. As the hurdles get higher for the bad guys, the better ones will certainly look...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Command Execution Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root-level privileges. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of URL requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by requesting an unauthorized command...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory for Prime Infrastructure Command Execution Vulnerability

Cisco has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure software versions 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 2.0 which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root-level privileges. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to...

Netgear D6300B routers backdoor

Specially crafted network packet activates root level telnet access...

Undocumented Test Interface in Cisco Small Business Devices

A vulnerability in the Cisco WAP4410N Wireless-N Access Point, Cisco WRVS4400N Wireless-N Gigabit Security Router, and the Cisco RVS4000 4-port Gigabit Security Router could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain root-level access to an affected device. Note: Additional research...

VUPEN Researchers Say They Have Zero-Day Windows 8 Exploit

Controversial bug hunters and exploit sellers VUPEN claimed to have cracked the low-level security enhancements featured in Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system. VUPEN CEO and head of research Chaouki Bekrar sent out a pair of ominous Tweets yesterday claiming to have developed the firs...

QuickTime Streaming Server - 'parse_xml.cgi' Remote Execution (Metasploit)

$Id: qtssparsexmlexec.rb 9669 2010-07-03 03:13:45Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use...

Red Hat Directory Server Accept-Language HTTP Header Parsing Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-2928)

Red Hat Directory Server is an LDAP-based server that centralizes application settings, user profiles, group data, policies, and access control information into an operating system-independent, network-based registry. Fedora Directory Server is a free version of Red Hat Directory Server. There...

Default Password (debug) for 'user' Account

The account 'user' on the remote host has the password 'debug'. An attacker may use it to gain further privileges on this system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. account = "user"; password = "debug"; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

OpenServer 5.0.7 OpenServer 5.0.6 OpenServer 5.0.5 : SCO Internet Manager - local users can gain root level privileges.

To: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SCO Security Advisory Subject: OpenServer 5.0.7 OpenServer 5.0.6 OpenServer 5.0.5 : SCO Internet Manager - local users can gain root level privileges. Advisory...

Turbolinux 3.5 b2 - 'canuum' Local Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/758/info Canna is a Japanese input system available as free software. Canna provides a unified user interface for inputting Japanese. Canna supports NemacsMule, kinput2 and canuum. All of these tools can be used by a single customization file,...

IRIX 6.5 / Solaris 7.0 / Turbolinux 4.2 - 'uum' Local Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/757/info Canna is a Japanese input system available as free software. Canna provides a unified user interface for inputting Japanese. Canna supports NemacsMule, kinput2 and canuum. All of these tools can be used by a single customization file,...