Someone Just Tried to Take Down Internet's Backbone with 5 Million Queries/Sec

Someone just DDoSed one of the most critical organs of the Internet anatomy – The Internet's DNS Root Servers. Early last week, a flood of as many as 5 Million queries per second hit many of the Internet's DNS Domain Name System Root Servers that act as the authoritative reference for mapping...

Internet Root Name Servers DDoS Attack

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. The attacks happened on Nov. 30 and again on Dec. 1, and each time, massive volumes of traffic, peaking at five million...

Oracle Linux 7 : ntp (ELSA-2015-2231)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2231 advisory. - check origin timestamp before accepting KoD RATE packet CVE-2015-7704 - allow only one step larger than panic threshold with -g CVE-2015-5300 -...

ntp security, bug fix, and enhancement update

4.2.6p5-22 - check origin timestamp before accepting KoD RATE packet CVE-2015-7704 - allow only one step larger than panic threshold with -g CVE-2015-5300 4.2.6p5-20 - validate lengths of values in extension fields CVE-2014-9297 - drop packets with spoofed source address ::1 CVE-2014-9298 - rejec...

ntp: drop packets with source address ::1

It was found that because NTP's access control was based on a source IP address, an attacker could bypass source IP restrictions and send malicious control and configuration packets by spoofing ::1 addresses...

OracleVM 3.3 : ntp (OVMSA-2015-0102)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - reject packets without MAC when authentication is enabled CVE-2015-1798 - protect symmetric associations with symmetric key against DoS attack CVE-2015-1799 - fix generation of MD5 keys with ntp-keyge...

ntp: drop packets with source address ::1

It was found that because NTP's access control was based on a source IP address, an attacker could bypass source IP restrictions and send malicious control and configuration packets by spoofing ::1 addresses...

ntp: drop packets with source address ::1

It was found that because NTP's access control was based on a source IP address, an attacker could bypass source IP restrictions and send malicious control and configuration packets by spoofing ::1 addresses...

qemu: slirp: NULL pointer deref in sosendto()

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way QEMU handled UDP packets with a source port and address of 0 when QEMU's user networking was in use. A local guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest...

ntp: multiple issues

CVE-2014-9297 information disclosure, denial of service The vallen packet value is not validated in several code paths in ntpcrypto.c which can lead to information leakage or a possible crash. - CVE-2014-9298 access restriction bypass While available kernels will prevent 127.0.0.1 addresses from...

OpenJDK: DatagramSocket connected socket missing source check (Libraries, 8039509)

It was discovered that the DatagramSocket implementation in OpenJDK failed to perform source address checks for packets received on a connected socket. A remote attacker could use this flaw to have their packets processed as if they were received from the expected source...

OpenJDK: DatagramSocket connected socket missing source check (Libraries, 8039509)

It was discovered that the DatagramSocket implementation in OpenJDK failed to perform source address checks for packets received on a connected socket. A remote attacker could use this flaw to have their packets processed as if they were received from the expected source...

OpenJDK: DatagramSocket connected socket missing source check (Libraries, 8039509)

It was discovered that the DatagramSocket implementation in OpenJDK failed to perform source address checks for packets received on a connected socket. A remote attacker could use this flaw to have their packets processed as if they were received from the expected source...

Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: Multiple flaws were discovered in the Libraries, 2D, and Hotspot components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2014-6506, CVE-2014-6531, CVE-2014-6502, CVE-2014-6511, CVE-2014-6504, CVE-2014-65...

OpenJDK: DatagramSocket connected socket missing source check (Libraries, 8039509)

It was discovered that the DatagramSocket implementation in OpenJDK failed to perform source address checks for packets received on a connected socket. A remote attacker could use this flaw to have their packets processed as if they were received from the expected source...

OpenJDK: DatagramSocket connected socket missing source check (Libraries, 8039509)

It was discovered that the DatagramSocket implementation in OpenJDK failed to perform source address checks for packets received on a connected socket. A remote attacker could use this flaw to have their packets processed as if they were received from the expected source...

Origin: Command execution as root via downloadable cartridge source-url

cartridgerepository.rb in OpenShift Origin and Enterprise 1.2.8 through 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a Source-Url ending with a 1 .tar.gz, 2 .zip, 3 .tgz, or 4 .tar file extension in a cartridge manifest file...

NetworkTrafficView - Monitor the traffic on your network adapter

NetworkTrafficView is a network monitoring tool that captures the packets pass through your network adapter, and displays general statistics about your network traffic. The packets statistics is grouped by the Ethernet Type, IP Protocol, Source/Destination Addresses, and Source/Destination ports...

NTP Amplification Flaw To Blame For Gaming DDoS Attacks

US-CERT has issued an advisory that warns enterprises about distributed denial of service attacks flooding networks with massive amounts of UDP traffic using publicly available network time protocol NTP servers. Known as NTP amplification attacks, hackers are exploiting something known as the...

hypervkvpd security and bug fix update

0-0.7.0.1.el59.3 - Add support for oracle os 0-0.7.3 - Fix for one more file descriptor leak rhbz953502 0-0.7.2 - Validate Netlink source address CVE-2012-5532 rhbz953560 0-0.7.1 - Fix for file descriptor leak rhbz953502...