IP Theft, Supply Chain Security Major Worries for Government, Former Cybersecurity Czar Says

ANAHEIM, CALIF.–The theft of intellectual property through attacks on U.S. networks, both government-owned and private, has become one of the major concerns for officials at the top level of the federal government, not just among security staffs, but at the upper echelons of the White House and...

Adobe Plugs Several Buffer Overflow Holes in Shockwave Player

Adobe announced today it has repaired a host of critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities and an array out of bounds vulnerability in Shockwave Player and urges users to update to the latest version of the software, version 11.6.8.638. The company said it is not aware of active exploits. Both the...

Malware Signed by Adobe Certificate Only Used in Limited Targeted Attacks

Adobe’s revocation of a code-signing certificate that had been used by attackers to sign several malicious utilities sparked concerns in the security community about widespread malware attacks using those utilities. The key concern was that most antimalware systems will implicitly trust files tha...

What's the Meaning of This: Adobe Certificate Attack

The news yesterday that Adobe had been compromised and that the attackers were able to get valid Adobe signatures on a pair of malware utilities is one of the more worrisome and troubling stories in what has become a year of huge hacks and historic change in the security industry. Adobe was...

Valid Adobe Certificate Used to Sign Malicious Utilities Common in Targeted Attacks

Adobe announced today it was the victim of an APT-style attack after two malicious utilities commonly used in targeted attacks for privilege escalation and pivoting within a network were discovered signed by a valid Adobe digital certificate. Adobe said it will revoke the certificate next week...

Symantec Norton Utilities 2006 source code leaked by Anonymous

Symantec is looking into claims more of its products' source code has been leaked online, following a similar incident earlier this year. This time source code from Norton Utilities 2006 was reportedly leaked on The Pirate Bay by Anonymous member STUN. "As you all see its fully 7z packed content,...

New FERC Cybersecurity Office Has Lofty Oversight and Outreach Goals

When it comes to cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, there are generally more questions than answers. And for the last 10 months or so, the volume of concern and uncertainty has ramped up, largely because there’s little in the way of productive information sharing on threats, a serious lac...

CVE-2010-5217

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in TuneUp Utilities 2009 8.0.3310 and 2010 9.0.4600 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse 1 wscapi.dll or 2 vclib32.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .tvs file. NOTE: the...

Design/Logic Flaw

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in TuneUp Utilities 2009 8.0.3310 and 2010 9.0.4600 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse 1 wscapi.dll or 2 vclib32.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .tvs file. NOTE: the...

CVE-2010-5217

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in TuneUp Utilities 2009 8.0.3310 and 2010 9.0.4600 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse 1 wscapi.dll or 2 vclib32.dll file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .tvs file. NOTE: the...

CVE-2010-5217

The CVE-2010-5217 entry concerns TuneUp Utilities 2009 8.0.3310 and 2010 9.0.4600. The issue is a privilege-escalation vulnerability caused by untrusted search paths: local users can gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse file (either wscapi.dll or vclib32.dll) in the current working directory...

Hard-Coded Password Leaves GarrettCom Switches Open to Attack, ICS-CERT Warns

The Department of Homeland Security is warning users of some of GarrettCom’s switches that there is a hard-coded password in a default account on the devices, which are deployed in a number of critical infrastructure industries, that could allow an attacker to take control of them. A researcher a...

Fedora Update for iproute FEDORA-2012-2818

Check for the Version of iproute OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for iproute FEDORA-2012-2818 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...

Fedora Update for wireshark FEDORA-2012-12091

Check for the Version of wireshark OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for wireshark FEDORA-2012-12091 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 t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-1586

mount.cifs in cifs-utils 2.6 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or directories via the file path in the second argument, which reveals their existence in an error message...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: wireshark-1.6.10-1.fc17

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gfs2-utils on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple insecure temporary file use flaws were discovered in GFS2 user level utilities. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by a victim running those utilities typically root with the output of the utilities via a symbolic link attack. CVE-2008-6552 Thi...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL4.x i386/x86_64 (20120213)

The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot function properly. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ecryptfs-utils on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

eCryptfs is a stacked, cryptographic file system. It is transparent to the underlying file system and provides per-file granularity. The setuid mount.ecryptfsprivate utility allows users to mount an eCryptfs file system. This utility can only be run by users in the 'ecryptfs' group. A race...

Scientific Linux Security Update : util-linux on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login program. Multiple flaws were found in the way the mount and umount commands performed mtab...