Attacks Targeting US Defense Contractors and Universities Tied to China

UPDATE: Researchers have identified an ongoing series of attacks, possibly emanating from China, that are targeting a number of high-profile organizations, including SCADA security companies, universities and defense contractors. The attacks are using highly customized malicious files to entice...

CVE-2012-2375

The nfs4getacluncached function in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c in the NFSv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.2 uses an incorrect length variable during a copy operation, which allows remote NFS servers to cause a denial of service OOPS by sending an excessive number of bitmap words in an...

Design/Logic Flaw

The nfs4getacluncached function in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c in the NFSv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.2 uses an incorrect length variable during a copy operation, which allows remote NFS servers to cause a denial of service OOPS by sending an excessive number of bitmap words in an...

Opera 'X.509' Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability - Windows

Opera is prone to spoofing vulnerability 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802435";...

Opera 'X.509' Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability - Linux

Opera is prone to a spoofing vulnerability 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802436...

Opera 'X.509' Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability - Mac OS X

Opera is prone to spoofing vulnerability 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802437";...

Opera 'X.509' Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability (Mac OS X)

The host is installed with Opera and is prone to spoofing vulnerability OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gboperax509certspoofingvulnmacosx.nasl 5956 2017-04-14 09:02:12Z teissa $ Opera 'X.509' Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability Mac OS X Authors: Antu Sanadi Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone...

Opera 'X.509' Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability (Linux)

The host is installed with Opera and is prone to spoofing vulnerability OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gboperax509certspoofingvulnlin.nasl 5888 2017-04-07 09:01:53Z teissa $ Opera 'X.509' Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability Linux Authors: Antu Sanadi Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Network...

Attackers Can Use 'Self-Destruct' Feature to Kill Flame

The attackers behind Flame can easily clean up compromised computers, according to research by security firm Symantec who found that some attackers have been able to use command-and-control C&C servers to completely remove the malware from certain machines. According to a post on Symantec’s...

More Sophisticated DDoS Attack a New Threat to Apache Servers

A once flawed DDoS attack targeting the world’s most widely used Web servers has improved its cryptography and attack capabilities to become a more serious threat. MP-DDoser, also known as “IP-Killer,” uses a relatively new low-bandwidth, “asymmetrical” HTTP attack to inflict a denial-of-service...

Microsoft IIS - MDAC 'msadcs.dll' RDS DataStub Content-Type Overflow (MS02-065) (Metasploit)

$Id$ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Microsoft IIS MDAC msadcs.dll RD...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: hostapd-0.7.3-2.1.fc15

hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the back- ground and acts as the backe...

CVE-2012-3291

Heap-based buffer overflow in OpenConnect 3.18 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service via a crafted greeting banner...

CVE-2012-3291

CVE-2012-3291: Heap-based buffer overflow in OpenConnect 3.18 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service via a crafted greeting banner. The vulnerability affects OpenConnect prior to the patched builds; Debian/SUSE advisories indicate fixes in OpenConnect packages (sid: 3.18-1; squeeze: 2...

Microsoft IIS MDAC msadcs.dll RDS Arbitrary Remote Command Execution

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core'...

Memory corruption

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or data corruption or obta...

CVE-2012-1667

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or data corruption or obta...

CVE-2012-1251

Opera before 9.63 does not properly verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2012-1667

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or data corruption or obta...

dns/bind9* -- zero-length RDATA can cause named to terminate, reveal memory

ISC reports: Processing of DNS resource records where the rdata field is zero length may cause various issues for the servers handling them. Processing of these records may lead to unexpected outcomes. Recursive servers may crash or disclose some portion of memory to the client. Secondary servers...