Infighting, Politics Hampering Cybersecurity Progress in Washington

WASHINGTON–The United States government and private sector are unprepared for a major cyber attack on the country’s critical infrastructure, a former Congressman said, thanks to a divided, risk-averse Congress and an inability for agencies and other organizations to share information effectively...

NAT-PMP Protocol vulnerability 1 2 0 0 million routers at risk-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

Present in the embedded device vulnerability, especially the kind of small office and home office route, is never a steady stream. This week security researchers discovered a serious vulnerability, because theNAT-PMP Protocol improper design will affect more than 1 2 0 0 million of the router...

Folder Plus 2.5.1 Script Injection

Document Title: =============== Folder Plus v2.5.1 iOS - Persistent Item Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1348 Release Date: ============= 2014-10-24 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 134...

Folder Plus 2.5.1 iOS - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Folder Plus 2.5.1 iOS - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Document Title: =============== Folder Plus v2.5.1 iOS - Persistent Item Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1348 Release Date: ============= 2014-10-24 Vulnerability...

Folder Plus 2.5.1 iOS - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Document Title: =============== Folder Plus v2.5.1 iOS - Persistent Item Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1348 Release Date: ============= 2014-10-24 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 134...

NAT-PMP Security Vulnerability Affects 1.2M Routers

Vulnerabilities in embedded devices, in particular small office and home office routers, have been relentless. Another serious issue was discovered this week that affects more than 1.2 million such devices due to improper NAT-PMP protocol implementations, most of which run counter to the...

Cybersecurity Legislation Forecast is Grim

MINNEAPOLIS – If you’re expecting federal cybersecurity legislation any time soon, forget it. Despite the number of prospective bills on the Hill right now, Congress is unlikely to move anything forward any time soon, according to Matthew Rhoades, director cyberspace and security program Truman...

Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 (Oct 2014) - Windows

Mozilla Thunderbird is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird";...

Mozilla Firefox ESR Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 (Oct 2014) - Windows

Mozilla Firefox ESR is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefoxesr";...

Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities-01 (Oct 2014) - Mac OS X

Mozilla Thunderbird is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird";...

CVE-2014-4441

NetFS Client Framework in Apple OS X before 10.10 does not ensure that the disabling of File Sharing is always possible, which allows remote attackers to read or write to files by leveraging a state in which File Sharing is permanently enabled...

Code injection

NetFS Client Framework in Apple OS X before 10.10 does not ensure that the disabling of File Sharing is always possible, which allows remote attackers to read or write to files by leveraging a state in which File Sharing is permanently enabled...

CVE-2014-4441

CVE-2014-4441 : Affected product is Apple Mac OS X prior to 10.10, specifically the NetFS Client Framework. The issue is a state management bug in File Sharing: disabling File Sharing may not be reliably enforced, allowing a state where File Sharing remains enabled and permitting remote read/writ...

Facebook “Safety Check” Allows You to Connect with Family during Natural Disasters

Facebook is moving a step ahead from others and making its social media service as an information sharing platform in serious situations as well. The social networking giant has announced a new tool, which lets users notify their family and friends that they are safe during or after natural...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (9c1495ac-8d8c-4789-a0f3-8ca6b476619c)

The Mozilla Project reports : MFSA 2014-74 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:33.0 / rv:31.2 MFSA 2014-75 Buffer overflow during CSS manipulation MFSA 2014-76 Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms MFSA 2014-78 Further uninitialized memory use during GIF MFSA 2014-79...

Easy file sharing web server - persist XSS in forum msgs

I saw a posting a month or 2 ago for a BOF in an FTP server belonging to EFS Software here: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19243 At first there was no additional details provided and I hunted up and down before finding it after some fuzzing stack smash in password. While on the hunt, I found on...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-2373-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2373-1 advisory. Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen and Jon Coppeard discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were trick...

USN-2373-1 thunderbird vulnerabilities

Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen and Jon Coppeard discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service vi...

CVE-2014-1586

content/base/src/nsDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 does not consider whether WebRTC video sharing is occurring, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from the local camera in certain IFRAME...

Information disclosure

The WebRTC video-sharing feature in dom/media/MediaManager.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 does not properly recognize Stop Sharing actions for videos in IFRAME elements, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive informati...