Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security and bug fix update

Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings...

Wireless and Wired Network Interceptor: the Interceptor

The Interceptor is a wireless wired network tap. Basically, a network tap is a way to listen in to network traffic as it flows past. I haven’t done extensive research but all the ones I found when looking passed the copy of the traffic onto a specified wired interface which was then plugged into ...

Code injection

Apple iPhone 2.1 with firmware 5F136, when Require Passcode is enabled and Show SMS Preview is disabled, allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by performing an Emergency Call tap and then reading SMS messages on the device screen, aka Apple bug number 6267416...

CVE-2008-3876: Undefined Security Weakness

Apple iPhone 2.0.2, in some configurations, allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, and obtain sensitive information or make arbitrary use of the device, via an Emergency Call tap and a Home double-tap, followed by a tap of any contact's blue arrow...

FreeBSD : openvpn -- denial of service: malicious authenticated 'tap' client can deplete server virtual memory (1986449a-8b74-40fa-b7cc-0d8def8aad65)

James Yonan reports : A malicious authenticated client in 'dev tap' ethernet bridging mode could theoretically flood the server with packets appearing to come from hundreds of thousands of different MAC addresses, causing the OpenVPN process to deplete system virtual memory as it expands its...

CVE-2005-2533

OpenVPN before 2.0.1, when running in "dev tap" Ethernet bridging mode, allows remote authenticated clients to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion via a flood of packets with a large number of spoofed MAC addresses...

CVE-2005-2533: Undefined Security Weakness

OpenVPN before 2.0.1, when running in "dev tap" Ethernet bridging mode, allows remote authenticated clients to cause a denial of service memory exhaustion via a flood of packets with a large number of spoofed MAC addresses...

openvpn -- denial of service: malicious authenticated "tap" client can deplete server virtual memory

James Yonan reports: A malicious authenticated client in "dev tap" ethernet bridging mode could theoretically flood the server with packets appearing to come from hundreds of thousands of different MAC addresses, causing the OpenVPN process to deplete system virtual memory as it expands its...