HD Moore, Project Sonar Crowdsources Vulnerability Analysis

The state of embedded device security is poor, and there hasn’t been much in the way of discussion to the contrary. It’s well established that vendors skimp on security, selling for example, routers and other networking gear protected only by default passwords, or other critical devices engineere...

Cisco NX-OS Software BGP Regex Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol BGP code of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the affected device to reload. The vulnerability is due to an issue with the regex engine used when processing complex regular expressions. An attacker could...

Relax, You Don't Have to Fix Every Vulnerability

Here’s an idea: stop fixing every vulnerability you read about. The best thing to do, it turns out, is to look at the vulnerabilities that are in both Metasploit and the Exploit Database and fix those. That gives you the highest chance of fixing bugs that are likely to be used in an actual attack...

Fedora Update for libkmahjongg FEDORA-2013-10130

Check for the Version of libkmahjongg OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libkmahjongg FEDORA-2013-10130 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

Scientific Linux Security Update : bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64

"The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled certain add-ons. Malicious, remote content could cause an add-on to elevate its privileges, which could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running...

CentOS Update for thunderbird CESA-2011:1438 centos5 x86_64

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",...

Simple Machines 2.0.2 - Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

Simple Machines 2.0.2 - Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54456/info Simple Machines is prone to multiple HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in dynamically generated content...

SMF Board 2.0.2 Cross Site Scripting

Title: ====== SMF Board v2.0.2 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2012-06-25 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=596 VL-ID: ===== 624 Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================== 4.1 Introduction: ============= Simple...

Simple Machines 2.0.2 - Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54456/info Simple Machines is prone to multiple HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in dynamically generated content. Successful exploits will allow attacker-supplied HTML and script cod...

SMF Board v2.0.2 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities

Document Title: =============== SMF Board v2.0.2 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=596 Release Date: ============= 2012-06-25 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 624 Common...

Buffer overflow and use-after-free issues found using Address Sanitizer — Mozilla

Security researcher Abhishek Arya of Google used the Address Sanitizer tool to uncover several issues: two heap buffer overflow bugs and a use-after-free problem. The first heap buffer overflow was found in conversion from unicode to native character sets when the function fails. The use-after-fr...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1430-1)

Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Brian Hackett, Bobby Holley, Gary Kwong, Hilary Hall, Honza Bambas, Jesse Ruderman, Julian Seward, and Olli Pettay discovered memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit these to cau...

Mozilla Thunderbird < 12.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Thunderbird is earlier than 12.0 and thus, is potentially affected by the following security issues : - An error exists with handling JavaScript errors that could lead to information disclosure. CVE-2011-1187 - An off-by-one error exists in the 'OpenType Sanitizer' that...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2457-1] iceweasel security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2457-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff April 24, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Potential XSS through ISO-2022-KR/ISO-2022-CN decoding issues — Mozilla

Security researcher Masato Kinugawa found that during the decoding of ISO-2022-KR and ISO-2022-CN character sets, characters near 1024 bytes are treated incorrectly, either doubling or deleting bytes. On certain pages it might be possible for an attacker to pad the output of the page such that...

Potential XSS via multibyte content processing errors — Mozilla

Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software found a multi-octet encoding issue where certain octets will destroy the following octets in the processing of some multibyte character sets. This can leave users vulnerable to cross-site scripting XSS attacks on maliciously crafted web pages...

seamonkey security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:1440 Updated seamonkey packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: seamonkey security update

Updated seamonkey packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...