Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers via Wi-Fi Signals (Without Wi-Fi Hardware)

A security researcher has demonstrated that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from air-gapped computers via a novel technique that leverages Wi-Fi signals as a covert channel—surprisingly, without requiring the presence of Wi-Fi hardware on the targeted systems. Dubbed "AIR-FI," the attack hing...

Scientific Linux Security Update : NetworkManager on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was discovered that NetworkManager would set device MTUs based on MTU values received in IPv6 RAs Router Advertisements, without sanity checking the MTU value first. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to create a denial of service attack, by sending a specially crafted IPv6 RA packet to...

RHEL 7 : NetworkManager (RHSA-2015:2315)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2315 advisory. NetworkManager is a system network service that manages network devices and connections. It was discovered that NetworkManager would set...