Security update for wireguard-tools (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for wireguard-tools Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3527-1 Rating: moderate References: 1191224 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. Description: This update for wireguard-tools fixes the...

PT-2021-7641

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WireGuard versions 0.5.3 Description The issue is related to the implementation of the NTP protocol in WireGuard on Windows, which does not fully account for the possibility that an adversary might set a victim's system time to a future value,...

Terraguard - Create And Destroy Your Own VPN Service Using WireGuard

This project's goal is to be simple to create and destroy your own VPN service using WireGuard. Prerequisites Terraform = 1.0.0 Ansible = 2.10.5 How to Deploy Terraform Run with sudo is necessary because we need permission on localhost to install packages, configure a network interface and start ...

Does using a VPN slow down your Internet?

A Virtual Private Network VPN can stop others from snooping on or tampering with your Internet traffic. It does this by concealing your traffic inside an encrypted tunnel between you and your VPN provider. And because your traffic appears to join the the Internet from your VPN providers computer...

A week in security (June 28 – July 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Is it Game Over for VR Advergaming? Lil’ skimmer, the Magecart impersonator What is the WireGuard VPN protocol? Binance receives the ban hammer from UK’s FCA Fired by algorithm: The future’s here and it’s a robot wearing a white collar Second colossal Linkedin...

What is the WireGuard VPN protocol?

In layman’s terms, a VPN uses encryption to create a private online connection between a device and a VPN server. With a good VPN service, you can shield your data from curious eyes. A VPN protocol is the set of rules that shapes how your data travels between your computer, mobile phone, tablet, ...

UVI-2021-1000806 wireguard: allowedips: free empty intermediate nodes when removing single node

wireguard: allowedips: free empty intermediate nodes when removing single node This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.12.10 by commi...

GSD-2021-1000806 wireguard: allowedips: free empty intermediate nodes when removing single node

wireguard: allowedips: free empty intermediate nodes when removing single node This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.12.10 by commi...

GSD-2021-1000771 wireguard: allowedips: free empty intermediate nodes when removing single node

wireguard: allowedips: free empty intermediate nodes when removing single node This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.10.43 by commi...

UVI-2021-1000771 wireguard: allowedips: free empty intermediate nodes when removing single node

wireguard: allowedips: free empty intermediate nodes when removing single node This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.10.43 by commi...

VPN protocols explained and compared

A Virtual Private Network VPN creates a safe "tunnel" between you and a computer you trust normally your VPN provider to protect your traffic from spying and manipulation. Any VPN worth its money encrypts the information that passes through it, so in this article we will ignore those that dont us...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 5.10.33 and fixes at least the following security issues: A race condition in Linux kernel SCTP sockets net/sctp/socket.c before 5.12-rc8 can lead to kernel privilege escalation from the context of a network service or an unprivileged process. If...

Updated kernel packages fix security issues

This kernel update is based on upstream 5.10.25 and fixes at least the following security issues: Unprivileged BPF programs running on affected systems can bypass the protection and execute speculatively out-of-bounds loads from any location within the kernel memory. This can be abused to extract...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0452-1 Security update for connman

This update for connman fixes the following issues: Update to 1.39 boo1181751: Fix issue with scanning state synchronization and iwd. Fix issue with invalid key with 4-way handshake offloading. Fix issue with DNS proxy length checks to prevent buffer overflow. CVE-2021-26675 Fix issue with DHCP...

Security update for connman (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for connman Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0452-1 Rating: moderate References: 1181751 Cross-References: CVE-2021-26675 CVE-2021-26676 CVSS scores: CVE-2021-26675 NVD : 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2021-26676 NVD : 6.5...

openSUSE Security Update : connman (openSUSE-2021-416)

This update for connman fixes the following issues : Update to 1.39 boo1181751 : - Fix issue with scanning state synchronization and iwd. - Fix issue with invalid key with 4-way handshake offloading. - Fix issue with DNS proxy length checks to prevent buffer overflow. CVE-2021-26675 - Fix issue...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0416-1 Security update for connman

This update for connman fixes the following issues: Update to 1.39 boo1181751: Fix issue with scanning state synchronization and iwd. Fix issue with invalid key with 4-way handshake offloading. Fix issue with DNS proxy length checks to prevent buffer overflow. CVE-2021-26675 Fix issue with DHCP...

Security update for connman (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for connman Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0416-1 Rating: moderate References: 1181751 Cross-References: CVE-2021-26675 CVE-2021-26676 CVSS scores: CVE-2021-26675 NVD : 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2021-26676 NVD : 6.5...

Updated kernel and kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update is based on the upstream 5.7.19 kernel and fixes at least the following security issue: In the Linux kernel 5.0.21 and 5.3.11, mounting a crafted btrfs filesystem image, performing some operations, and then making a syncfs system call can lead to a use-after-free in trymergefreespace ...

CVE-2020-9429

In Wireshark 3.2.0 to 3.2.1, the WireGuard dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-wireguard.c by handling the situation where a certain data structure intentionally has a NULL value...