Hack The Galaxy: Hunting Bugs in the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Planner of Bug Bashes Recently, Project Zero researched a popular Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. We discovered and reported 11 high-impact security issues as a result. This post discusses our motivations behind the research, our approach in looking for...

openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2015-683)

wireshark was updated to version 1.12.8 to fix ten security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-6247: The dissectopenflowtablemodv5 function in epan/dissectors/packet-openflowv5.c in the OpenFlow dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.7 did not validate a certain offset value...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-2781-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2781-1 advisory. Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to...

USN-2781-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.46 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.6.27. In addition to security fixes, th...

[USN-2769-1] Apache Commons HttpClient

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2769-1 October 14, 2015 commons-httpclient vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

Security update for MozillaFirefox (important)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 41.0.2 to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2015-7184: Cross-origin restriction bypass using Fetch bsc950686. These non-security issues were fixed: Fix a startup crash related to Yandex toolbar and Adblock Plus bmo1209124 Fix...

RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : java-1.6.0-sun (RHSA-2015:1928)

Updated java-1.6.0-sun packages that fix several security issues are now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detaile...

USN-2770-2: Oxide vulnerabilities

USN-2770-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Oxide in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 15.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ContainerNode::parserInsertBefore in Blink would incorrectly proceed with a DOM tree insertion in some...

RHEL 5 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (RHSA-2015:1921)

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

RHEL 6 / 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2015:1919)

Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ELSA-2015-1919)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1919 advisory. 1:1.8.0.65-0.b17 - October 2015 security update to u65b17. - Add script for generating OpenJDK tarballs from a local Mercurial tree. - Update...

CentOS 6 / 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (CESA-2015:1919)

Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

RHEL 6 / 7 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (RHSA-2015:1920)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1920 advisory. The java-1.7.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 7 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 7 Java Software Development Kit. Multiple...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : libwmf (ELSA-2015-1917)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1917 advisory. - Resolves: rhbz1227428 - CVE-2015-0848 CVE-2015-4588 CVE-2015-4695 CVE-2015-4696 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly fr...

RHEL 6 / 7 : libwmf (RHSA-2015:1917)

Updated libwmf packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

CentOS 6 / 7 : libwmf (CESA-2015:1917)

Updated libwmf packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Social Engineering — Free Online Training for Hackers

For most of us Hacking is Technological in Nature. But, we usually forget the most important element of hacking that makes a successful hack from 10% to over 90%... ...The Human Element. And here the Social Engineering comes in. Social Engineering deals with non-technical kind of intrusion and...

SUSE: Security Advisory for flash-player (SUSE-SU-2015:0236-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2015:1912)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1912 advisory. Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit Blink. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web...

SUSE: Security Advisory for java-1_7_1-ibm (SUSE-SU-2014:1549-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...