Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS): TLS RSA decryption timing attack

Background The Mozilla Network Security Service is a library implementing security features like SSL v.2/v.3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME and X.509 certificates. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in Mozilla Network Security Service NSS. Please review the CVE...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: mariadb (CVE-2023-6935)

The version of mariadb installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-6935 advisory. - wolfSSL SP Math All RSA implementation is vulnerable to the Marvin Attack, new variation of a timing...

SUSE-SU-2018:4068-1 Security update for compat-openssl098

This update for compat-openssl098 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-0734: Fixed timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation bsc1113652. - CVE-2018-5407: Fixed elliptic curve scalar multiplication timing attack defenses bsc1113534. - CVE-2016-8610: Adjusted current...

How the RSA Attackers Swung and Missed at Lockheed Martin

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO–The attack that resulted in the compromise of RSA’s SecurID database in 2011 had a lot of ramifications and sent shockwaves through much of the security industry. But it could have had much broader consequences had the security team at Lockheed Martin not discovered the same...

760+ Organizations, Including Google, Facebook, Targeted by RSA Attack

More than 760 organizations, 20 percent of them Fortune 100 companies, may have been compromised by RSA’s now infamous data breach in March, 2011, according to a report on Krebsonsecurity. Facebook, Google and Cisco Systems are just a few of the many organizations who were targets of malware usin...

Researchers Discover File Used to Hack RSA

Researchers at anti-malware company F-Secure say they have found the actual infected Excel file that was used in the attack on RSA earlier this year, eventually forcing the company to replace millions of its SecurID tokens. The Outlook email message containing the malicious file apparently was...

Malicious PDF Attack Baiting Defense Industry Victims

There has been a spate of spear-phishing attacks against a number of high-profile targets in the last few months, including RSA and others, and that trend is continuing unabated. Researchers have come across a fresh attack using the familiar malicious PDF attachment that appears to be targeting...

Adobe Flash Player AVM Bytecode Verification Vulnerability

This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player versions 10.2.152.33 and earlier. This issue is caused by a failure in the ActionScript3 AVM2 verification logic. This results in unsafe JITJust-In-Time code being executed. This is the same vulnerability that was used for the RSA attack ...

Paul Kocher on the RSA Attack

Dennis Fisher talks with Paul Kocher of Cryptography Research about the details of the attack on RSA, what the attackers might have stolen and what the compromise of the seed file for the SecurID tokens would mean for customers. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

Back-End Software May Be Real Worry in RSA Attack

The attack on RSA that the company revealed last week raises a multitude of questions about the security of the company’s network and its own internal procedures. But the most important issues the RSA attack brings to the surface concern exactly what the attackers may have been after and what the...

SuSE 10 Security Update : IBM Java (ZYPP Patch Number 2461)

This update brings IBM Java 1.4.2 to Service Release 7. It contains several undisclosed security fixes, including the fix for the RSA attack similar to Mitre CVE ID CVE-2006-4790. It also contains timezone updates : - US daylightsaving time update starting 2007. - Western Australia daylight savin...

Stunnel: RSA timing attacks / key discovery

Release Date: 2003-Mar-21 Package: stunnel Versions: Stunnel 3.x x = 22 Stunnel 4.x x = 04 Problem type: Key discovery / Information Leakage Exploit script: None publicly available Severity: High Network-accessible: yes Network-accessible: yes Discovery: D. Boneh, D. Brumley Writeup: Brian Hatch...