Hootsuite Recovers from Denial of Service Attack

Social media management system Hootsuite recovered rapidly from a denial of service DoS attack late last week, bouncing back after being offline for a few hours Thursday morning. During that time, starting around 9:45 a.m. EST., users of the site were unable to use the service after a malicious...

Mozilla Thunderbird < 24.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Thunderbird is a version prior to 24.4 and is, therefore, potentially affected the following vulnerabilities: - Memory issues exist that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1494 - An issue exists where extracted files for updates are not...

Thunderbird < 24.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)

The installed version of Thunderbird is a version prior to version 24.4. It is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Memory issues exist that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1494 - An issue exists where extracted files for updates ar...

Firefox ESR 24.x < 24.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)

The installed version of Firefox ESR 24.x is prior to 24.4 and is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Memory issues exist that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1494 - A flaw exists in the checkHandshake function due to improper...

Firefox ESR 24.x < 24.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Firefox ESR 24.x is a version prior to 24.4. It is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Memory issues exist that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1494 - A flaw exists in the checkHandshake function due to...

MGASA-2014-0056 Updated plexus-archiver package fixes security vulnerability

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream BZip2CompressorOutputStream in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a file with many repeating inputs CVE-2012-2098. plexus-archiver...

Snapchat user accounts vulnerable to Brute-Force Attack

Snapchat, a Smartphone application that lets users share snapshots with friends is catching fire among teenagers. It was first hacked in December when 4.6 million Snapchat users were exposed in a database breach. Later, the denial-of-service attack and CAPTCHA Security bypass were discovered by...

Snapchat app vulnerable to denial-of-service attack, allows remotely crash iPhone

SNAPCHAT, photo sharing app is the majority choice for variety of users. Recently, the company has faced data breach and Captcha bypass vulnerability, and just yesterday a new denial-of-service attack has been revealed which can crash an iPhone. Jamie Sanchez, a security researcher has found the...

CVE-2013-6336

The ieee802154maprec function in epan/dissectors/packet-ieee802154.c in the IEEE 802.15.4 dissector in Wireshark 1.8.x before 1.8.11 and 1.10.x before 1.10.3 uses an incorrect pointer chain, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted packet...

MGASA-2013-0284 Updated python-django package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Updated python-django package fixes security vulnerabilities: Rainer Koirikivi discovered a directory traversal vulnerability with 'ssi' template tags in python-django, a high-level Python web development framework. It was shown that the handling of the 'ALLOWEDINCLUDEROOTS' setting, used to...

[(D)DoS Deflate] Script designed to block a denial of service attack

DoS+Deflate.gif DDoS Deflate is a lightweight bash shell script designed to assist in the process of blocking a denial of service attack. It utilizes the command below to create a list of IP addresses connected to the server, along with their total number of connections. It is one of the simplest...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: rubygem-passenger security update

Updated rubygem-passenger packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.2.2. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Fedora 18 : wordpress-3.5.2-1.fc18 (2013-11630)

WordPress 3.5.2 is now available. This is the second maintenance release of 3.5, fixing 12 bugs. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. The WordPress security team resolved seven security issues, and this release also...

FreeBSD : dns/bind9* -- A recursive resolver can be crashed by a query for a malformed zone (72f35727-ce83-11e2-be04-005056a37f68)

ISC reports : A bug has been discovered in the most recent releases of BIND 9 which has the potential for deliberate exploitation as a denial-of-service attack. By sending a recursive resolver a query for a record in a specially malformed zone, an attacker can cause BIND 9 to exit with a fatal...

dns/bind9* -- A recursive resolver can be crashed by a query for a malformed zone

ISC reports: A bug has been discovered in the most recent releases of BIND 9 which has the potential for deliberate exploitation as a denial-of-service attack. By sending a recursive resolver a query for a record in a specially malformed zone, an attacker can cause BIND 9 to exit with a fatal...

Anonymous Hackers Launch #OpUSA against US Banking and Government Agencies

OpUSA campaign is officially started, the day has come, today May 7 as announced by Anonymous, a coordinated online attack will hit Banking and government websites. The announcement made by popular group of hacktivists is creating great concerns between US security experts in charge of defense th...

CVE-2013-1184

CVE-2013-1184 affects Cisco UCS Manager (XML API management service) in UCS 1.x before 1.2(1b). The Management API can be triggered by a malformed request to cause a denial-of-service (service outage). Affected component: XML API management service in the Manager. Root cause: malformed request ha...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDVSA-2013:113)

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that Perl's 'x' string repeat operator is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code CVE-2012-5195. The compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2662-1 (xen - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2013-1917 The SYSENTER instruction can be used by PV guests to accelerate system call processing. This instruction, however, leaves the EFLA...

HDFC Bank website vulnerable to ID Theft and Account Blockade

Indian Security Researcher Jiten Jain from Xebia Architects today revealed that one of the Largest Private Banks in India, HDFC Bank's e-Banking website could be easy target of Unique type of Denial of Service Attack which could result in blocking of e-banking accounts of all its customers. Here ...