Debian DLA-2572-1 : wpa security update

An issue has been found in wpa, a set of tools to support WPA and WPA2 IEEE 802.11i. Missing validation of data can result in a buffer over-write, which might lead to a DoS of the wpasupplicant process or potentially arbitrary code execution. On request, together with this upload support for...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in RC4 stream cipher affects IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications (CVE-2015-2808)

Summary The RC4 “Bar Mitzvah” Attack for SSL/TLS affects IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-2808 DESCRIPTION:The RC4 algorithm, as used in the TLS protocol and SSL protocol, could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. An attacker...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Diffie-Hellman ciphers affects IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry (CVE-2015-4000)

Summary The Logjam Attack on TLS connections using the Diffie-Hellman DH key exchange protocol affects IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry MQXR service. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-4000 DESCRIPTION: The TLS protocol could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the...

openSUSE Security Update : hostapd (openSUSE-2017-1201) (KRACK)

This update for hostapd fixes the following issues : - Fix KRACK attacks on the AP side boo1063479, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13079, CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13081, CVE-2017-13087, CVE-2017-13088 : Hostap was updated to upstream release 2.6 - fixed EAP-pwd last fragment validation...

Cryptographers Concerned Over NSA's Deprecation of ECC

The National Security Agency has long cuddled up to Elliptic Curve Cryptography, swaying standards bodies away from RSA crypto and toward ECC in the late 1990s, as well as recommending it as a strong enough solution for sensitive government agencies to use in guarding their biggest secrets. In...

Fedora 19 : gnutls-3.1.16-1.fc19 (2013-20628)

Minor security update from upstream. New minor upstream release fixing a security issue. Adds ECC NIST Suite B curves support ECDH, ECDSA Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

Fedora 19 : gnutls-3.1.15-1.fc19 (2013-20052)

New minor upstream release fixing a security issue. Adds ECC NIST Suite B curves support ECDH, ECDSA Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as...

Experts Urge ECC crytpo over RSA algorithm

LAS VEGAS – Cryptographic breakthroughs have accelerated in the past six months in areas such as discrete logarithm computations that lead experts to believe that breaking the stalwart RSA algorithm may be in the not-too-distant future. A team of crypto experts today at Black Hat USA 2013 present...

Super Cryptography : The Next Generation Encryption

Super Cryptography : The Next Generation Encryption The next generation of encryption technologies meets this need by using Elliptic Curve Cryptography ECC to replace RSA and DH, and using Galois/Counter Mode GCM of the Advanced Encryption Standard AES block cipher for high-speed authenticated...

Super Cryptography : The Next Generation Encryption

Super Cryptography : The Next Generation Encryption The next generation of encryption technologies meets this need by using Elliptic Curve Cryptography ECC to replace RSA and DH, and using Galois/Counter Mode GCM of the Advanced Encryption Standard AES block cipher for high-speed authenticated...