kernel: DoS with syscall auditing

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's system call auditing implementation. On a system with existing audit rules defined, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory to user space or, potentially, crash the system...

Innominate mGuard Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Innominate Security Technologies has identified a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all mGuard devices. Innominate has produced a firmware patch that mitigates this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following Innominate mGuard...

Tails 1.1.1 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...

Throttling Rules Not Being Applied

Challenge A configured Network Throttling rule does not appear to be taking effect. Solution Traffic can only be throttled between backup infrastructure components where the Veeam Data Movers are deployed. These components differ depending on a data protection scenario. For more information, revi...

Verizon to Pay Largest Ever Consumer Privacy Settlement

Verizon will pay the Federal Communications Commission $7.4 million as part of a settlement over the company’s failure to adequately inform and obtain consent from customers before using their personal information to develop thousands of tailored marketing campaigns. Officials say this fine...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

openstack-neutron: Denial of Service in Neutron allowed address pair

A denial of service flaw was found in neutron's handling of allowed address pairs. As there was no enforced quota on the amount of allowed address pairs, a sufficiently authorized user could possibly create a large number of firewall rules, impacting performance or potentially rendering a compute...

openstack-neutron: Denial of Service in Neutron allowed address pair

A denial of service flaw was found in neutron's handling of allowed address pairs. As there was no enforced quota on the amount of allowed address pairs, a sufficiently authorized user could possibly create a large number of firewall rules, impacting performance or potentially rendering a compute...

SA-CONTRIB-2014-083 - Rules Link - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

This module allows you to create links which trigger arbitrary functionality with the help of the Rules module. The module doesn't sufficiently sanitize the question and description strings when confirmation forms are displayed for triggering Rules links. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fa...

Samsung To Pay $2.3 Million Fine for Deceiving the U.S. Government

The United States division of Samsung has been charged with deceiving the US government into believing that several of its products met the necessary US government policies, resulting in the US government buying unauthorised Chinese-made electronics. The South Korean electronics giant has agreed ...

openstack-nova: RBAC policy not properly enforced in Nova EC2 API

It was found that RBAC policies were not enforced in certain methods of the OpenStack Compute EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API. A remote attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges beyond the user group they were originally restricted to. Note that only certain setups using...

AlienVault Releases Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Best Practices

Network security practitioners rely heavily on intrusion detection systems IDS to identify malicious activity on their networks by examining network traffic in real time. IDS are available in Network NIDS and Host HIDS forms, as well as for Wireless WIDS. Host IDS is installed via an agent on the...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-neutron security update

Updated openstack-neutron packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

openstack-neutron: Denial of Service in Neutron allowed address pair

A denial of service flaw was found in neutron's handling of allowed address pairs. As there was no enforced quota on the amount of allowed address pairs, a sufficiently authorized user could possibly create a large number of firewall rules, impacting performance or potentially rendering a compute...

WAF-FLE v0.6.4 - OpenSource ModSecurity Console

WAF-FLE is a OpenSource ModSecurity Console, allows modsecurity admin to store, view and search events sent by sensors using a graphical dashboard to drill-down and find quickly the most relevant events. It is designed to be fast and flexible, while keeping a powerful and easy to use filter, with...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : apache2-mod_security2 (SAT Patch Number 9585)

This apache2-modsecurity2 update fixes the following security issue : - bypass of intended rules via chunked requests CVE-2013-5705. bnc871309 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information...

Cobham SATCOM products' web interface contains a weak password recovery vulnerability

Overview Some Cobham products have a web interface that contains a weak password recovery mechanism for the administrator account. Description CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password IOActive has reported that Cobham SAILOR 900 VSAT, SAILOR FleetBroadBand 150/250/500,...

Cobham thraneLINK improper verification of firmware updates vulnerability

Overview Cobham's thraneLINK protocol does not verify cryptographic signatures for firmware updates before installing them. This may allow an attacker to deploy a malicious firmware update to the device. Description CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature IOActive reports that...

file: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type rules

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension handled indirect rules. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to crash or consume an excessive amount of CPU...

file: out-of-bounds access in search rules with offsets from input file

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension handled search rules. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a PHP application using fileinfo to crash or consume an excessive amount of CPU...