pidgin OTR information leakage

Pidgin transmits OTR off-the-record conversations over DBUS in plaintext. This makes it possible for attackers that have gained user-level access on a host, to listen in on private conversations associated with the victim account. Pidgin is a popular Instant Messenger application that runs on a...

Fedora 16 : libvirt-0.9.6-4.fc16 (2011-17267)

This release of libvirt fixes a minor security problem with extraneous iptables rules being added when an externally managed network new feature in 0.9.4 exists, along with several bugfixes. Another important change in this release is code to automatically convert guest definitions containing the...

SuSE 10 Security Update : pure-ftpd, pure-ftpd-debuginfo (ZYPP Patch Number 7724)

The OES Netware add-ons in pure-ftpd had a security problem and some bugs, which are fixed by this update. A local attacker could overwrite local files when the OES remote server feature of pure-ftpd is enabled due to a directory traversal. CVE-2011-3171 Additionally the following bugs have been...

Like Enterprises, Government Agencies Are Struggling With Security

WASHINGTON–The U.S. government has a lot of money. Not as much as it used to have, of course, but still, it has a lot. It also has a lot of computers and servers and routers and other things that move and store data. In fact, they have so many that they don’t really know what all of them are doin...

SuSE 10 Security Update : pure-ftpd (ZYPP Patch Number 7723)

The OES Netware add-ons in pure-ftpd had a security problem and some bugs, which are fixed by this update. A local attacker could overwrite local files when the OES remote server feature of pure-ftpd is enabled due to a directory traversal. CVE-2011-3171 Additionally the following bugs have been...

FreeBSD : gforge -- XSS and email flood vulnerabilities (d7cd5015-08c9-11da-bc08-0001020eed82)

Jose Antonio Coret reports that GForge contains multiple Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities and an e-mail flood vulnerability : The login form is also vulnerable to XSS Cross Site Scripting attacks. This may be used to launch phising attacks by sending HTML e-mails i.e.: saying that you need to...

UK Vodafone Phone Hacking method exposed

UK Vodafone Phone Hacking method exposed The Hacker's Choice announced a security problem with Vodafone's Mobile Phone Network today. An attacker can listen to any UK Vodafone customer's phone call. An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in 3G/UMTS/WCDMA - the latest and most secure mobile phone...

ZabetAgahi SQL injection vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

From abroad website. Can understand place generally sent to everyone The security problem in the file "ZabetAgahiCategory.php" has been created. Appear security file in"ZabetAgahiCategory.php" Injected statement: http://localhost.com/ZabetAgahiCategory.php?cid=SQL -44 UNION SELECT...

The Banker Trojan Epidemic

Banking Trojans have become a major security problem in many regions, particularly South America and Europe. In this video, Kaspersky Lab malware researcher Vicente Diaz discusses the epidemic and what can be done to mitigate it...

Fedora 13 : ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 (2010-14640)

This package fixes a security problem CVE-2010-2055 in ghostscript whereby gs uses the current working directory to look for certain types of system file. This has been fixed by changing the default behaviour. Additionally, several other bugs have been fixed: scripts defining GSEXECUTABLE have be...

Fedora 12 : lvm2-2.02.72-4.fc12 (2010-12250)

This update addresses a security problem when using the clustered LVM daemon clvmd from the package lvm2-cluster on systems where you have non-root users. The lvm2 package on its own is not vulnerable to this problem but if you are using lvm2-cluster you must update both together. Further details...

Fedora 13 : lvm2-2.02.73-2.fc13 / udisks-1.0.1-4.fc13 (2010-13708)

This update addresses a security problem when using the clustered LVM daemon clvmd from the package lvm2-cluster on systems where you have non-root users. The lvm2 package on its own is not vulnerable to this problem but if you are using lvm2-cluster you must update both together. Further details...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for git

Sebastian Harl uploaded new packages for git, a popular distributed revision control system, which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2010-2542, Debian BTS 590026 A buffer overrun was found in the way Git sanitized path of a git directory. If a local attacker would create a specially-craft...

pam_captcha username harvest vulnerability

pamcaptcha is visual text-based CAPTCHA challenge module for PAM that uses figlet to generate the CAPTCHAs. Project site: http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/pamcaptcha/ A site with a screen shot: http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/securing-ssh-access-with-pam-captcha I found a security problem...

CVE-2009-4488

Varnish 2.0.6 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator. NOTE: the vendo...

jruby-openssl Gem for JRuby fails to do proper certificate validation

A security problem involving peer certificate verification was found where failed verification silently did nothing, making affected applications vulnerable to attackers. Attackers could lead a client application to believe that a secure connection to a rogue SSL server is legitimate. Attackers...

proc File Descriptors Directory Permissions bypass

No description provided by source. Hi! This is forward from lkml, so no, I did not invent this hole. Unfortunately, I do not think lkml sees this as a security hole, so... Jamie Lokier said: a the current permission model under /proc/PID/fd has a security hole which Jamie is worried about I belie...

Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-4967 (mingw32-opensc)

The remote host is missing an update to mingw32-opensc announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-4967. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: fcore20094967.nasl 6624 2017-07-10 06:11:55Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory FEDORA-2009-4967 mingw32-opensc Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright:...

CVE-2009-1174

The Web Services Security component in IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS 6.0.2 before 6.0.2.35 and 7.0 before 7.0.0.3 has an unspecified "security problem" in the XML digital-signature specification, which has unknown impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2009-1174

IBM WebSphere Application Server shows a vulnerability in its Web Services Security XML digital-signature handling. Affected products/versions: WebSphere Application Server 6.0.2 prior to 6.0.2.35 and 7.0 prior to 7.0.0.3. Root cause: an unspecified security problem in the XML digital-signature s...