Biometrics' Researchers Say Follow Your Nose

Forget iris and fingerprint scans — scanning noses could be a quicker and easier way to verify a person’s identity, according to scientists at the University of Bath. With worries about illegal immigration and identity theft, authorities are increasingly looking to using an individual’s physical...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: snort-2.8.5.1-1.fc10

Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows,...

CVE-2008-7201

Lantronix MSS485-T allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service unstable performance and service loss via certain vulnerability scans, as demonstrated using 1 Nessus and 2 nmap...

CVE-2008-7201

Lantronix MSS485-T allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service unstable performance and service loss via certain vulnerability scans, as demonstrated using 1 Nessus and 2 nmap...

Design/Logic Flaw

3CX Phone System 6.0.806.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service unstable service or crash via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by vulnerability scans from Nessus or SAINT...

Specifically Crafted Archive/Container Files can Bypass Initial Scans

SUMMARY Specifically-crafted archive and container files can potentially bypass initial malware scans in some products. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Products --- Symantec Mail Security for Domino Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Symantec Brightmail Gateway Symant...

Defense Industrial Base information-sharing program a good start

The recent flood of stories on attacks against the electrical grid, various government agencies and other portions of the critical infrastructure has renewed the calls for improvements in federal cybersecurity and, especially, information sharing between the government and the private sector on...

ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7.0 - AntiVirus Directory Path Buffer Overflow (PoC)

ZoneAlarm Security Suite 7.0 - AntiVirus Directory Path Buffer Overflow PoC source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31124/info ZoneAlarm Security Suite is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input when...

FTP bounce vulnerability in multiple Canon digital multifunction copiers and laser beam printers

Overview Multiple Canon digital multifunction copiers and laser beam printers contain a vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to access other network devices via a built-in FTP server. The Canon Color imageRUNNER Series, imageRUNNER Series, imagePRESS Series, and laser beam printer...

JVN#10056705 FTP bounce vulnerability in multiple Canon digital multifunction copiers and laser beam printers

The Canon Color imageRUNNER Series, imageRUNNER Series, imagePRESS Series, and laser beam printer series are digital multifunction copiers and printers. Some of these products contain a vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to access other network devices via a built-in FTP server...

Canon digital multifunction copiers FTP bounce vulnerability

Overview Some models of Canon digital multifunction copiers are vulnerable to the FTP bounce attack. Description From the Problems With The FTP PORT Command document:The FTP Bounce Attack To conform with the FTP protocol, the PORT command has the originating machine specify an arbitrary destinati...

US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-355A -- Adobe Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA07-355A Adobe Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: December 21, 2007 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Adobe Flash Player 9.0.48.0 and earlier Adobe...

Code injection

The Disk Mount scanner in Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh 9.x and 10.x, Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.0 and 10.1, and Norton Internet Security for Macintosh 3.x, uses a directory with weak permissions group writable, which allows local admin users to gain root privileges by replacing...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: snort-2.7.0.1-3.fc7

Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows,...

CVE-2007-2896

Race condition in the Symantec Enterprise Security Manager ESM 6.5.3 managers and agents on Windows before 20070524 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption and application hang via certain network scans to ESM ports...

Race condition

Race condition in the Symantec Enterprise Security Manager ESM 6.5.3 managers and agents on Windows before 20070524 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption and application hang via certain network scans to ESM ports...

CVE-2007-2896

CVE-2007-2896 affects Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) 6.5.3 on Windows prior to 20070524. The issue is a race condition that allows remote attackers to cause denial of service via certain network scans directed at ESM ports, leading to CPU consumption and application hang. Descriptions...

DSA-1103 kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities

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USN-281-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

The sysmbind function did not properly verify the validity of the 'maxnod' argument. A local user could exploit this to trigger a buffer overflow, which caused a kernel crash. CVE-2006-0557 The SELinux module did not correctly handle the tracer SID when a process was already being traced. A local...

spank.c

Your machine answers to TCP packets that are coming from a multicast address. This is known as the 'spank' denial of service attack. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: spank.nasl 8145 2017-12-15 13:31:58Z cfischer $ spank.c Authors: Michel Arboi Copyright: Copyright C 2003 Michel Arboi This program ...