[SECURITY] [DSA 4098-1] curl security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4098-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Alessandro Ghedini January 26, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000007

libcurl 7.1 through 7.57.0 might accidentally leak authentication data to third parties. When asked to send custom headers in its HTTP requests, libcurl will send that set of headers first to the host in the initial URL but also, if asked to follow redirects and a 30X HTTP response code is...

Korea In The Crosshairs

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres and with contributions from Jungsoo An. A one year review of campaigns performed by an actor with multiple campaigns mainly linked to South Korean targets. Executive Summary This article exposes the malicious activities of Group 123...

Bitwarden: Vulnerable exported broadcast receiver

Good evening, This is actually in your code base this time. : Since the following broadcast receiver has export=true it can be exploited by 3rd parties. Vulnerability com.x8bit.bitwarden.PackageReplacedReceiver has exported set to true making the receiver vulnerable to tampering. F238236 POC I wa...

E-Mail Tracking

Interesting survey paper: on the privacy implications of e-mail tracking: Abstract: We show that the simple act of viewing emails contains privacy pitfalls for the unwary. We assembled a corpus of commercial mailing-list emails, and find a network of hundreds of third parties that track email...

CVE-2017-14988

Header::readfrom in IlmImf/ImfHeader.cpp in OpenEXR 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive memory allocation via a crafted file that is accessed with the ImfOpenInputFile function in IlmImf/ImfCRgbaFile.cpp. NOTE: The maintainer and multiple third parties believe tha...

Countdown to GDPR: Assess Vendor Risk

To comply with GDPR, organizations typically must overhaul and update a number of internal processes and systems, but they can’t ignore a critical area: risk from vendors and other third parties such as contractors, partners, suppliers and service providers. It’s a point that’s stressed repeatedl...

CVE-2017-8459

Brave 0.12.4 has a Status Bar Obfuscation issue in which a redirection target is shown in a possibly unexpected way. NOTE: third parties dispute this issue because it is a behavior that might have legitimate applications in for example the display of web-search results...

Secure (and Simple) SharePoint Remote Access

SharePoint, Microsoft's 16-year-old flagship file storage and collaboration product, is used by over 200 million worldwide users. Likened to a Swiss Army knife, SharePoint performs so many functions that it has become an integral part of most enterprise IT fabrics. Of course, it is not perfect - ...

[slackware-security] mcabber

New mcabber packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/loudmouth-1.5.3-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update is needed for the mcabber security update...

Lightweight themes on Firefox for Android do not verify a secure connection — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Margaret Leibovic reported when Firefox for Android installs lightweight themes, it does not check to verify that they are served over an HTTPS connection. Instead, themes can be installed over an unencrypted connection, which could allow for a man-in-the-middle MITM attack by...

Key pinning is ignored when overridable errors are encountered — Mozilla

Mozilla security engineer David Keeler reported that when an overridable error is encountered, such as those for expired certificates or a host name does not match a certificate, pinning checks can be be skipped. This would allow for a user to override a pinned certificate when they should not be...

Apple Admits Siri Voice Data is Being shared with Third Parties

It has been known from year 2013 that commands we have been whispering to Siri are being stored on Apple servers for up to two years for analysis, but this news might be the most shocking development yet. Apple admits that its Siri — an intelligent personal assistant for iPhone, iPad and iPod Tou...

itBit Exchange: Leakage of sensitive wallet tokens to third party sites

Hello Itbit team This is Shahmeer and i am reporting a very critical issue in which the wallet tokens such as the one below are being leaked to third party websites https://beta.itbit.com/trading-history/402bd136-be8f-45e2-89ea-46e3283f8118 The above listed URL contains the wallet token that is...

Apple Strongly Denies Claims of Installing iOS Backdoor

The allegations from a data forensic expert and security researcher that iOS contains a “backdoor” permitting third parties to potentially gain access to large amount of users' personal data instigated Apple to give a strong response. The company has completely denied to the claims published over...

Health and Fitness Apps Poor at Protecting Privacy FTC Says

A recent study conducted by the Federal Trade Commission examined 12 mobile health and fitness apps and found them sending users’ personal information to 76 different third parties. Jah-Juin Ho, an attorney in the FTC’s Mobile Technology Unit shared the research yesterday during a seminar regardi...

Dropbox Patches Shared Links Privacy Vulnerability

Dropbox has acknowledged and disabled a vulnerable shared links feature that exposed documents stored by the service to third parties. Shared links are a collaboration feature that allows user, especially in a business environment, to share and edit documents. Dropbox rival Intralinks reported th...

US-CERT Warns of More CryptoLocker Ransomware Infections

CryptoLocker is a devious evolution of now-familiar ransomware schemes in which the malware encrypts files it finds on a number of network resources and demands a ransom for the decryption key. US-CERT issued an advisory today warning businesses and consumers of the risks presented by CryptoLocke...

Another Android Master Key Attack Published

A second Android Master Key attack has been reported that takes advantage of the vulnerability in the way Android reads APK files, enabling hackers to modify signed legitimate apps with malware. The vulnerability occurs in the way Android conducts integrity checks on APK files. An attacker could...

CVE-2012-6520

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the advanced search in Wikidforum 2.10 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the 1 selectsort or 2 optsearchselect parameters. NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by third parties...