StrongSwan v4.5.0 - New Version

Our first post regarding strongSwan can be found here. Now, an update has been released – strongSwan v4.5.0. "strongSwan is an OpenSource IPsec implementation for the Linux operating system. It is based on the discontinued FreeS/WAN project and the X.509 patch which we developped over the last...

Allow to specify which user to be used in trusted connection with JIRA

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-21127. panel This is an improvement request to allow specifying which user to be used in trusted connection with JIRA. Proposed...

Allow to specify which user to be used in trusted connection with JIRA

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-21127. panel This is an improvement request to allow specifying which user to be used in trusted connection with JIRA. Proposed...

Allow to specify which user to be used in trusted connection with JIRA

This is an improvement request to allow specifying which user to be used in trusted connection with JIRA. Proposed example next to the documented examples in Jira Issues Macro|http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/JIRA+Issues+Macro bq. Anonymous=false: EITHER use the user credentials define...

firefox/nss: doesn't handle IP-based wildcards in X509 certificates safely

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 recognize a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL serve...

Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering File Permissions Security Bypass Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to perform unauthorized actions against the administrative shares on the failover cluster disk. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Itanium...

[ MDVSA-2010:195 ] libesmtp

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:195 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : libesmtp Date : October 4, 2010 Affected: 2008.0, 2009.0, 2009.1, 2010.0, 2010.1, Corporate 4.0, Enterprise Server 5.0 Problem Description: Multiple...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libesmtp (MDVSA-2010:195)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in libesmtp : libESMTP, probably 1.0.4 and earlier, does not properly handle a '\0' NUL character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL...

Microsoft Proposes 'Health Certificates' For Internet Access

Microsoft is proposing a new Internet-wide security model, based on the concepts of public health, that is designed to address the problem of how to prevent infected machines from affecting the security and performance of PCs elsewhere on the Web. The model would require each PC to present a...

Microsoft Internet Explorer - Unsafe Scripting Misconfiguration (Metasploit)

$Id: ieunsafescripting.rb 10394 2010-09-20 08:06:27Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use...

Microsoft Windows Tracing Registry Key ACL Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges. Successful exploits will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Technologies Affected Avaya Aura...

OpenJDK Applet Trusted Methods Chaining Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (6904691)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0 Update 23, and 1.4.225 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from...

OpenJDK Applet Trusted Methods Chaining Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (6904691)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0 Update 23, and 1.4.225 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from...

Oracle WebLogic Server Plug-in HTTP Injection

The remote web server is using the WebLogic plug-in for Apache, IIS, or Sun web servers, a module included with Oracle formerly BEA WebLogic Server and used to proxy requests from an HTTP server to WebLogic. The version of this plug-in on the remote host is affected by an HTTP injection...

Microsoft Shifts to 'Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure' Policy

Microsoft is changing the way in which it handles vulnerability disclosures, now moving to a model it calls coordinated vulnerability disclosure, in which the researcher and the vendor work together to verify a vulnerability and allow ample time for a patch. However, the new philosophy also...

This Week In Security: Black Hat, Spammers and Trusted Rootkits

The old saying that there’s nothing new under the sun is just as true in the security industry as it is anywhere else. Many new attacks are variants or tweaks of existing ones, new software fails in exactly the same way as old software and new technologies crop up to solve problems that are 30...

Government Details Vision of Trusted Identities

The White House has published a draft of a strategy designed to make the concept of trusted identities and authentication more of a reality in the digital world. Read the full article. eWEEK...

OpenJDK Applet Trusted Methods Chaining Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (6904691)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0 Update 23, and 1.4.225 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from...

OpenJDK Applet Trusted Methods Chaining Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (6904691)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0 Update 23, and 1.4.225 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from...

CVE-2010-1885

The MPC::HexToNum function in helpctr.exe in Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 does not properly handle malformed escape sequences, which allows remote attackers to bypass the trusted documents whitelist fromHCP option and execute arbitrary commands v...