VUPEN Researchers Say They Have Zero-Day Windows 8 Exploit

Controversial bug hunters and exploit sellers VUPEN claimed to have cracked the low-level security enhancements featured in Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system. VUPEN CEO and head of research Chaouki Bekrar sent out a pair of ominous Tweets yesterday claiming to have developed the firs...

TPM Chip in Windows 8 Lays Foundation for Widespread Enhancements to Hardware-Based Security

Today’s release of the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system brings embedded hardware-level security to the forefront. Microsoft, going forward, will require the Trusted Platform Module TPM chip on Windows PCs, phones and tablets, moving security checks to the platoform’s lowest level. TPM isn’t...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: trousers-0.3.9-1.fc17

TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Sta ck TSS specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make u se of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys securely without ever being exposed in memory, verify a platform's soft...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - Flaws in the AGPGART driver implementation when handling certain IOCTL commands could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - IPv6 fragment identification value generation could allow a remote attacker to disrupt a target system's networking, preventing legitimate users from accessing...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - Using PCI passthrough without interrupt remapping support allowed Xen hypervisor guests to generate MSI interrupts and thus potentially inject traps. A...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:1479 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:1479 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...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1350-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1350-01 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 ter...

CVE-2011-1160

The tpmopen function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2011-1160

The tpmopen function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2011-1160: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The tpmopen function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2011-1162

The tpmread function in the Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly clear memory, which might allow local users to read the results of the previous TPM command...

CVE-2011-1162

The tpmread function in the Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly clear memory, which might allow local users to read the results of the previous TPM command...

Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1345-1)

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1345-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1345-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN13451.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1345-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1341-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1341-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN13411.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1341-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1341-1)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1337-1)

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...

USN-1345-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1337-1)

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel...