Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
June 7, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
June 7, 2016
Several issues have been discovered in the MariaDB database server. The vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MariaDB to the new upstream version 10.0.25. Please see the MariaDB 10.0 Release Notes for further details: For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 10.0.25-0+deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your mariadb-10.0 packages.
June 6, 2016
Risk High Date Discovered March 8, 2016 Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems Microsoft […]
June 6, 2016
Gentoo: 201606-04 GnuPG: Multiple vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in GnuPG and libgcrypt, the worst of which may allow a local attacker to obtain confidential key information. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
June 6, 2016
Gentoo: 201606-03 libjpeg-turbo: Multiple vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in libjpeg-turbo, the worse of which could allow remote attackers access to sensitive information. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
June 6, 2016
Debian: 3595-1: mariadb-10.0: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3595-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 05, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : mariadb-10.0 CVE ID : CVE-2016-0640 CVE-2016-0641 CVE-2016-0643 CVE-2016-0644 CVE-2016-0646 CVE-2016-0647 CVE-2016-0648 CVE-2016-0649 CVE-2016-0650 CVE-2016-0655 CVE-2016-0666 CVE-2016-0668 Debian Bug : 823325 Several issues have been discovered […]
June 6, 2016
Gentoo: 201606-02 Puppet Server and Agent: Multiple vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Puppet Server and Agent, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
June 6, 2016
Gentoo: 201606-01 PuTTY: Multiple vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PuTTY, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service condition. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
June 6, 2016
Debian: 3548-3: samba: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3548-3 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 05, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : samba Debian Bug : 821002 822937 The upgrade to Samba 4.2 issued as DSA-3548-1 introduced several upstream regressions and as well a packaging regression causing […]
June 6, 2016
Debian: 3594-1: chromium-browser: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3594-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert June 04, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : chromium-browser CVE ID : CVE-2016-1696 CVE-2016-1697 CVE-2016-1698 CVE-2016-1699 CVE-2016-1700 CVE-2016-1701 CVE-2016-1702 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1696 A cross-origin bypass […]
June 6, 2016
Slackware: 2016-155-01: ntp: Security Update Posted by Anthony Pell New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…] [slackware-security] ntp (SSA:2016-155-01) New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details […]
June 6, 2016
Debian: 3593-1: libxml2: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3593-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 02, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : libxml2 CVE ID : CVE-2015-8806 CVE-2016-1762 CVE-2016-1833 CVE-2016-1834 CVE-2016-1835 CVE-2016-1836 CVE-2016-1837 CVE-2016-1838 CVE-2016-1839 CVE-2016-1840 CVE-2016-2073 CVE-2016-3627 CVE-2016-3705 CVE-2016-4447 CVE-2016-4449 CVE-2016-4483 Debian Bug : 812807 813613 […]
June 6, 2016
Red Hat: 2016:1201-01: chromium-browser: Important Advisory Posted by Anthony Pell An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: chromium-browser security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1201-01 Product: Red Hat […]
June 6, 2016
Ubuntu: 2991-1: nginx vulnerability Posted by Anthony Pell nginx could be made to crash if it received specially crafted networktraffic. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2991-1 June 02, 2016 nginx vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – Ubuntu 15.10 – Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: […]
June 6, 2016
Ubuntu: 2990-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Several security issues were fixed in ImageMagick. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2990-1 June 02, 2016 imagemagick vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – Ubuntu 15.10 – Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: Several […]
June 6, 2016
The security review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden DNS
Welcome to this week’s security review, including the story of a DNS hijack that sets the victim’s computer to use specific DNS servers. The post The security review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden DNS appeared first on We Live Security.
June 6, 2016
5 trends shaking up multi-factor authentication
June 6, 2016
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1696 A cross-origin bypass was found in the bindings to extensions. CVE-2016-1697 Mariusz Mlynski discovered a cross-origin bypass in Blink/Webkit. CVE-2016-1698 Rob Wu discovered an information leak. CVE-2016-1699 Gregory Panakkal discovered an issue in the Developer Tools feature. CVE-2016-1700 Rob Wu discovered a use-after-free issue […]
June 5, 2016
Hackers Leak 36 million+ MongoDB Accounts
June 4, 2016
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause a denial-of-service against the application, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the […]
June 3, 2016
There’s a lot that happens in the security world, with many stories getting lost in the mix. In an effort to keep our readers informed and updated, we present the Webroot Threat Recap, highlighting 5 major security news stories of the week. MySpace Hack Could Be Largest in Recent History Recently, LeakedSource announced that they had obtained […]
June 3, 2016
Discovered: June 2, 2016 Updated: June 3, 2016 3:43:31 PM Also Known As: IronGate [FireEye] Type: Trojan Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP Trojan.Gatenori is a Trojan horse that may attempt to gain access to […]
June 3, 2016
Beware online fraudsters jumping on the back of recent data breaches
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a public service announcement warning people about online fraudsters, who are attempting to exploit a recent spate of data breaches that have only just come to light. This includes historic security incidents at Myspace, Tumblr and LinkedIn, for example, which have collectively compromised hundreds of millions of […]
June 3, 2016
The huge Dropbox password leak that wasn’t
June 3, 2016
How to delete your smartphone data securely before selling your device
Some people change their smartphone or tablet almost as casually as they change their clothes. They buy and later sell mobile devices without the slightest concern about the information that, one device after another, they keep putting in the hands of total strangers. This article is aimed at all those people, and in it you will be […]
June 3, 2016
Nearly all phishing emails now contain ransomware
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June 3, 2016
8 reasons why your security awareness program sucks
June 3, 2016
How the Top 5 PC Makers Open Your Laptop to Hackers
June 3, 2016
Exposed! The tricks that ransomware plays
June 3, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
June 3, 2016
Debian: 3592-1: nginx: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3592-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff June 01, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : nginx CVE ID : CVE-2016-4450 It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the Nginx code responsible for saving client request bodies to a […]
June 2, 2016
Crouching Tiger, Hidden DNS
Working in customer care you get to see every kind of issue computer users can have. This can lead to extremely interesting situations. One particularly noteworthy issue we are seeing is an interesting DNS hijack that sets the victim’s computer to use specific DNS servers. While this attack might not sound that interesting and may […]
June 2, 2016
Judge Tosses Evidence Gathered by FBI’s Tor Exploit
June 2, 2016
Network ELOFANTS and other insider threat insights from the DBIR and beyond
If you’re concerned about the security of your organization’s data you should be looking out for elofants on your network. I’ve seen them myself and, if your organization’s network is statistically average, then it is statistically likely to be harboring at least one ELOFANT, otherwise known as: Employee Left Or Fired, Access Not Terminated. While […]
June 2, 2016
Code red: Health IT must fix its security crisis
June 2, 2016
Add-ons bring Windows Hello to all Windows 10 PCs
June 2, 2016
Discovered: June 2, 2016 Updated: June 2, 2016 11:39:43 AM Type: Trojan Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP Trojan.Uverat.B is a Trojan horse that opens a back door on the compromised computer. It may also […]
June 2, 2016
University of Calgary Network Suffers Malware Attack
June 1, 2016
An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: chromium-browser security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1190-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1190 Issue date: 2016-06-01 CVE Names: […]
June 1, 2016
Debian: 3591-1: imagemagick: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3591-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello June 01, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : imagemagick CVE ID : CVE-2016-5118 Debian Bug : 825799 Bob Friesenhahn from the GraphicsMagick project discovered a command injection vulnerability in ImageMagick, a program suite […]
June 1, 2016
Ubuntu: 2989-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2989-1 June 01, 2016 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software Description: […]
June 1, 2016
Debian: 3590-1: chromium-browser: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3590-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert June 01, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : chromium-browser CVE ID : CVE-2016-1667 CVE-2016-1668 CVE-2016-1669 CVE-2016-1670 CVE-2016-1672 CVE-2016-1673 CVE-2016-1674 CVE-2016-1675 CVE-2016-1676 CVE-2016-1677 CVE-2016-1678 CVE-2016-1679 CVE-2016-1680 CVE-2016-1681 CVE-2016-1682 CVE-2016-1683 CVE-2016-1684 CVE-2016-1685 CVE-2016-1686 CVE-2016-1687 CVE-2016-1688 […]
June 1, 2016
Ubuntu: 2988-1: LXD vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Several security issues were fixed in LXD. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2988-1 May 31, 2016 lxd vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – Ubuntu 15.10 Summary: Several security issues were fixed in LXD. Software Description: […]
June 1, 2016
Ubuntu: 2987-1: GD library vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell The GD library could be made to crash or run programs if it processed aspecially crafted image file. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2987-1 May 31, 2016 libgd2 vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – […]
June 1, 2016
Ubuntu: 2986-1: dosfstools vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell dosfstools could be made to crash or run programs if it processed aspecially crafted filesystem. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2986-1 May 31, 2016 dosfstools vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – Ubuntu 15.10 – Ubuntu […]
June 1, 2016
Myspace data breach: 360 million accounts affected
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June 1, 2016
Zero-days aren’t the problem — patches are
There’s a widely held view that our world is full of uber hackers who are too brilliant to stop. Thus, we should fear zero-day attacks because they’re our biggest problem. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most hackers follow the path created by a very few smart ones — and zero days make up […]
June 1, 2016
It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the Nginx code responsible for saving client request bodies to a temporary file might result in denial of service: Malformed requests could crash worker processes. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-5+deb8u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has […]
June 1, 2016
Bob Friesenhahn from the GraphicsMagick project discovered a command injection vulnerability in ImageMagick, a program suite for image manipulation. An attacker with control on input image or the input filename can execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running the application. This update removes the possibility of using pipe (|) in filenames to […]
June 1, 2016
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1667 Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass. CVE-2016-1668 Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass in bindings to v8. CVE-2016-1669 Choongwoo Han discovered a buffer overflow in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2016-1670 A race condition was found that could cause the renderer process to reuse ids […]
June 1, 2016
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in gdk-pixbuf, a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using gdk-pixbuf (application crash), or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application, if a malformed image […]
May 31, 2016
An update for ntp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: ntp security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1141-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1141 Issue […]
May 31, 2016
Slackware: 2016-152-01: imagemagick: Security Update Posted by Anthony Pell New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. [More Info…] [slackware-security] imagemagick (SSA:2016-152-01) New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 […]
May 31, 2016
Slackware: 2016-152-02: mozilla-thunderbird: Security Update Posted by Anthony Pell New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…] [slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2016-152-02) New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +————————–+ patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.1.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. […]
May 31, 2016
An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: squid security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1139-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise […]
May 31, 2016
An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: squid security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1138-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise […]
May 31, 2016
An update for squid34 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: squid34 security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1140-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise […]
May 31, 2016
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Firefox, Thunderbird, Network Security Services (NSS), and NetScape Portable Runtime (NSPR) with the worst of which may allow remote execution of arbitrary code. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
May 31, 2016
Gentoo: 201605-05 Linux-PAM: Multiple vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Linux-PAM, allowing remote attackers to bypass the auth process and cause Denial of Service. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
May 31, 2016
Gentoo: 201605-04 rsync: Multiple vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in rsync, the worst of which could allow remote attackers to write arbitrary files. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
May 31, 2016
Gentoo: 201605-03 libfpx: Denial of Service Posted by Anthony Pell A double free vulnerability has been discovered in libfpx that allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
May 31, 2016
Debian: 3589-1: gdk-pixbuf: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3589-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso May 30, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : gdk-pixbuf CVE ID : CVE-2015-7552 CVE-2015-8875 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in gdk-pixbuf, a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation. A remote attacker […]
May 31, 2016