Data in the body of XHR HEAD requests leads to CSRF attacks — Mozilla

Security researcher Johnathan Kuskos reported that Firefox is sending data in the body of XMLHttpRequest XHR HEAD requests, which goes against the XHR specification. This can potentially be used for Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF attacks against sites which do not distinguish between HEAD and PO...

CSP 1.0 Added to Firefox to Block XSS Attacks

After years of discussion and waiting, Mozilla has finally added Content Security Policy 1.0, a defense against some common attacks such as XSS, to its Firefox browser. CSP already has been implemented in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and there was a limited implementation of it in Firefox...

Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2013-4187

Check for the Version of puppet OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for puppet FEDORA-2013-4187 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 under the term...

Fedora Update for rubygem-json FEDORA-2013-3052

Check for the Version of rubygem-json OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for rubygem-json FEDORA-2013-3052 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...

Fedora Update for rubygem-json FEDORA-2013-3050

Check for the Version of rubygem-json OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for rubygem-json FEDORA-2013-3050 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: rubygem-json-1.6.8-1.fc17

This is a implementation of the JSON specification according to RFC 4627 in Ruby. You can think of it as a low fat alternative to XML, if you want to store data to disk or transmit it over a network rather than use a verbose markup language...

[SE-2012-01] One more attack affecting Oracle's Java SE 7u15

Hello All, Last week, Oracle disputed our claim regarding one of the Issues reported to the company on Feb 25, 2012. This was Issue 54 that was partly responsible for a successful attack demonstrated in the environment of Java SE 7 Update 15. It turns out Oracle's attempt to deny Issue 54 turned...

RHEL 4 / 5 : jbossws-common (RHSA-2011:1306)

An updated jbossws-common package that fixes one security issue is now available for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

Fedora Update for php-symfony2-HttpFoundation FEDORA-2012-19442

Check for the Version of php-symfony2-HttpFoundation OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for php-symfony2-HttpFoundation FEDORA-2012-19442 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: php-symfony2-HttpFoundation-2.1.4-1.fc18

The HttpFoundation Component defines an object-oriented layer for the HTTP specification. In PHP, the request is represented by some global variables $GET, $POST, $FILE, $COOKIE, $SESSION... and the response is generated by some funct ions echo, header, setcookie, .... The Symfony2 HttpFoundation...

Webwork direct method invocation can bypass validatingStack through Action aliases

WebWork supports the concept of action aliases, which allow a single action class to serve requests mapping to different names. This allows a developer to reuse the same action logic, but provide different results based on interceptors. When an action is invoked, Webwork will typically call its...

Fedora Update for bcfg2 FEDORA-2012-10402

Check for the Version of bcfg2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for bcfg2 FEDORA-2012-10402 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: bcfg2-1.2.3-1.fc16

Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is the fifth generation of configuration management tools developed in the Mathematics...

Juniper Junos BGP UPDATE DoS (PSN-2012-10-733)

According to its self-reported version number, the remote Junos device could crash when processing a BGP UPDATE message containing a specially crafted flow specification NLRI. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ...

USN-1611-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Henrik Skupin, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Soroush Dalili and others discovered several memory corruption flaws in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, an attacker could exploit these to execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL4.x i386/x86_64 (20120213)

The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot function properly. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120315)

The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly. An integer overflow flaw was found in the implementation of the printf functions family. This could allow an attacker...

CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2011:0412 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of glibc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2011:0412 centos5 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2012:0393 centos6

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",...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: puppet-2.6.17-2.fc16

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system usin g a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, an...