GHOST glibc Vulnerability Affects WordPress and PHP applications

After the disclosure of extremely critical GHOST vulnerability in the GNU C library glibc — a widely used component of most Linux distributions, security researchers have discovered that PHP applications, including the WordPress Content Management System CMS, could also be affected by the bug...

Important: xorg-x11-server

Issue Overview: Multiple integer overflow flaws and out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the way the X.Org server calculated memory requirements for certain X11 core protocol and GLX extension requests. A malicious, authenticated client could use either of these flaws to crash the X.Org server...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID13024: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on January 6, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 36922 First Published: 2015 January 7 14:31 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID13024 may contain the following files: Name |...

[USN-2435-1] Graphviz vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2435-1 December 09, 2014 graphviz vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

[USN-2407-1] OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2407-1 November 11, 2014 nova vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Rootpipe — Critical Mac OS X Yosemite Vulnerability Allows Root Access Without Password

A Swedish Security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in Apple’s OS X Yosemite that gives hackers the ability to escalate administrative privileges on a compromised machine, and allows them to gain the highest level of access on a machine, known as root access. The vulnerability,...

Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2014-399)

An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in glibc's internal gconvtranslitfind function. An attacker able to make an application call the iconvopen function with a specially crafted argument could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that...

[USN-2362-1] Bash vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2362-1 September 24, 2014 bash vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Medium: php55

Issue Overview: A denial of service flaw was found in the way the File Information fileinfo extension parsed certain Composite Document Format CDF files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application using fileinfo via a specially crafted CDF file. gdctx.c in the GD component i...

Thousands of High-Risk Vulnerabilities Found in NOAA Satellite System

The informational systems that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA run are loaded with several critical vulnerabilities that could leave it vulnerable to cyber attacks. According to the findings of an audit recently conducted by the Department of Commerce’s Office of the...

[USN-2303-1] Unity vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2303-1 July 31, 2014 unity vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu...

[USN-2289-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2289-1 July 17, 2014 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubun...

Low: chrony

Issue Overview: It was reported that the cmdmon protocol implemented in chrony was found to be vulnerable to DDoS attacks using traffic amplification. By default, commands are allowed only from localhost, but it's possible to configure chronyd to allow commands from any address. This could allow ...

Medium: openssh

Issue Overview: sshd in OpenSSH before 6.6 does not properly support wildcards on AcceptEnv lines in sshdconfig, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended environment restrictions by using a substring located before a wildcard character. The verifyhostkey function in sshconnect.c in the...

[USN-2171-1] rsync vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2171-1 April 23, 2014 rsync vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubunt...

PT-2015-14: Password Access in Schneider Electric InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition 2014

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Password Access vulnerability in Schneider Electric InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition 2014. Systems do not encrypt user passwords, which allows attackers to access them. How to fix Update your system up to the latest...

Important: postgresql8

Issue Overview: Multiple stack-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the date/time implementation of PostgreSQL. An authenticated database user could provide a specially crafted date/time value that, when processed, could cause PostgreSQL to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with...

Solaris 8 (sparc) : 143320-05

Sun Management Center 4.0: Patch for Solaris 8. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Apr/05/12 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

Medium: subversion

Issue Overview: The isthislegal function in moddontdothat for Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.13 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.4 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and possibly cause a denial of service resource consumption via a relative URL in a REPORT request. The...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: The Linux kernel before 3.12, when UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO is enabled, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that us...