Yahoo Patches Vulnerability that Led to 450,000-Password Breach

Yahoo announced today it’s fixed the security hole that allowed a hacker group this week to post some 450,000 email addresses and passwords belonging to freelance writers. “We have taken swift action and have now fixed this vulnerability, deployed additional security measures for affected Yahoo!...

Default configuration

The default configuration of the auth/saml plugin in Mahara before 1.4.2 sets the "Match username attribute to Remote username" option to false, which allows remote SAML IdP servers to spoof users of other SAML IdP servers by using the same internal username...

Design/Logic Flaw

The CBC mode in the TLS protocol, as used in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, and other products, allows remote web servers to obtain plaintext data by triggering multiple requests to a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: clamav-0.97.5-1600.fc16

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers attachment scanning. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs ar...

DNSChanger FAQ: The Internet Is Not Broken

You know things have gone sideways when NPR and local TV news are talking about the “Internet doomsday” or “Black Monday”. We have DNSChanger to thank for this latest bout of Internet paranoia, and there’s a ton of misinformation and craziness circulating about the malware. We’re here to provide...

CVE-2012-3372

The default configuration of Cyberoam UTM appliances uses the same Certification Authority certificate and same private key across different customers' installations, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers by leveraging the presence of the CyberoamSSLCA...

RedHat Update for dhcp RHSA-2011:1819-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Most of What You've Read About DNSChanger Is Wrong. Here's How.

If you’ve been scanning the headlines or watching the evening news, you may have heard that tens of thousands of Internet users in the U.S. – hundreds of thousands around the world – will be cut off from the Internet on Monday, July 9, after servers set up at the bequest of the U.S. government go...

Bulgarian Hackers Group arrested

Bulgarian Hackers Group arrested Bulgarian authorities say that after months of investigation they have busted the "most powerful hacker group" in the country, the Cyber Warrior Invasion. The operation was conducted by Bulgaria's Sector for Computer Crimes, Intellectual Property and Gambling and...

CVE-2012-2318

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash by placing these characters in a text/plain message...

CVE-2011-2716

The DHCP client udhcpc in BusyBox before 1.20.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the 1 HOSTNAME, 2 DOMAINNAME, 3 NISDOMAIN, and 4 TFTPSERVERNAME host name options...

CVE-2011-2716

The DHCP client udhcpc in BusyBox before 1.20.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the 1 HOSTNAME, 2 DOMAINNAME, 3 NISDOMAIN, and 4 TFTPSERVERNAME host name options...

Microsoft IIS Authentication Bypass and Source Code Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Microsoft IIS is prone to an authentication-bypass vulnerability and a source-code disclosure vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C...

Code injection

QSslSocket in Qt before 4.7.0-rc1 recognizes a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority...

CVE-2010-5076

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2010-5076

QSslSocket in Qt before 4.7.0-rc1 recognizes a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority...

Debian DSA-2486-1 : bind9 - denial of service

It was discovered that BIND, a DNS server, can crash while processing resource records containing no data bytes. Both authoritative servers and resolvers are affected. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

New Fraud Ring 'Operation High Roller' Targets the Rich

A recent fraud ring through which attackers raided high-value bank accounts, nicknamed Operation High Roller .PDF, employed attacks that were quick, required no human interaction and have already affected several tiers of credit unions, regional banks and large global banks, over the last several...

GLSA-201206-25 : Apache HTTP Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201206-25 Apache HTTP Server: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache HTTP Server. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker might obtain...

New Fake Android Security App is Zeus Malware

There’s a new series of malicious Android applications masquerading as a premium security app for the mobile platform, and researchers say that the malware is part of the Zeus empire. The fake security apps began showing up in researchers’ malware traps in early June and newer versions have...