Avoiding the Dark Security Future

LAS VEGAS—Nick Percoco has been thinking a lot about the future of technology, and some of the things he’s dreamed up aren’t very pretty: farms of people renting out their spare brain cycles, autonomous cars that freak out and careen into oncoming traffic and hacking groups hijacking users’...

RHEL 5 : php (RHSA-2014:1824)

Updated php packages that fix three 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, are available for...

Oracle Linux 7 : shim (ELSA-2014-1801)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1801 advisory. - out-of-bounds memory read flaw in DHCPv6 packet processing Resolves: CVE-2014-3675 - heap-based buffer overflow flaw in IPv6 address parsing Resolves...

CentOS 6 : mod_auth_mellon (CESA-2014:1803)

An updated modauthmellon package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

polarssl: multiple issues

CVE-2014-8627 weak signature negotiation A mistake resulted in servers negotiating the lowest common hash from signaturealgorithms extension in TLS 1.2. - CVE-2014-8628 memory leaks Two issues were found that result in remotely triggerable memory leaks when parsing crafted ClientHello messages or...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-31.2.0esr-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.1 / current : php (SSA:2014-307-03)

New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-307-03. The text itself is copyright C...

CentOS 5 : php53 (CESA-2014:1768)

Updated php53 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, are available...

CentOS 6 / 7 : php (CESA-2014:1767)

Updated php 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...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1724)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1724 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fixes: A race condition flaw was found in the...

Samsung Rebuffs Criticism of Knox Crypto, Password Management

Replies and rebuttals are flying about regarding a report critical of the encryption and password management functions deployed with Samsung’s Knox technology in its Android-based Galaxy and Note mobile devices. Last week, a researcher published an advisory that said a PIN chosen during setup of...

SUSE-SU-2015:0545-2 Security update for OpenSSL

This OpenSSL update fixes the following issues: Session Ticket Memory Leak CVE-2014-3567 Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete CVE-2014-3568 Add support for TLSFALLBACKSCSV to mitigate CVE-2014-3566 POODLE Security Issues: CVE-2014-3567 CVE-2014-3566 CVE-2014-3568...

[slackware-security] glibc

New glibc packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/glibc-2.17-i486-8slack14.1.txz: Rebuilt. This update fixes several security issues, and adds an extra security hardening patch from...

SUSE-RU-2015:0769-1 Security update for openssl1

This OpenSSL update fixes the following issues: SRTP Memory Leak CVE-2014-3513 Session Ticket Memory Leak CVE-2014-3567 Build option no-ssl3 is incomplete CVE-2014-3568 Add support for TLSFALLBACKSCSV to mitigate CVE-2014-3566 POODLE Security Issues: CVE-2014-3513 CVE-2014-3567 CVE-2014-3566...

CentOS 6 / 7 : wireshark (CESA-2014:1676)

Updated wireshark 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 Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

RHEL 6 / 7 : wireshark (RHSA-2014:1676)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1676 advisory. Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network. Multiple flaws wer...

RHEL 5 / 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2014:1648)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1648 advisory. The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in. This update fixes multiple...

CentOS 5 / 6 : thunderbird (CESA-2014:1647)

An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. 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,...

USN-2384-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes a new upstream MySQL version to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.40. In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new features, and possibly incompatible changes. Please see the...

Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities (October 2014 CPU) (Unix)

The version of Oracle formerly Sun Java SE or Java for Business installed on the remote host is prior to 8 Update 25, 7 Update 71, 6 Update 85, or 5 Update 75. It is, therefore, affected by security issues in the following components : - 2D - AWT - Deployment - Hotspot - JAXP - JSSE - JavaFX -...