OLS3's underworld
September 03, 2010
(Sep 3) It has been discovered that in barnowl, a curses-based instant-messaging client, the return codes of calls to the ZPending and ZReceiveNotice functions in libzephyr were not checked, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (crash of the application), and possibly execute [More...]
September 03, 2010 03:00 PM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: This SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP3 kernel update contains several bug fixes and fixes for the following security issues: CVE-2010-2240: the stack of a process could grow into other mapped areas, therefore overwriting memory instead of terminating the [More...]
September 03, 2010 09:02 AM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: It has been discovered that in barnowl, a curses-based instant-messaging client, the return codes of calls to the ZPending and ZReceiveNotice functions in libzephyr were not checked, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (crash of the application), and possibly execute [More...]
September 03, 2010 06:14 AM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in flashplugin.
September 03, 2010 02:09 AM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: A vulnerability has been fixed in OpenSSL, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise an application using the library.
September 03, 2010 02:09 AM
September 02, 2010
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong.
September 02, 2010 01:50 PM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Late in July 2010, we assessed over 21 solutions that were submitted to the Forensic Challenge on VOIP. The solutions were exceptionally high quality. It is fair to say that we all learnt a lot about this emerging threat in the process of preparing this challenge.
September 02, 2010 11:06 AM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: It happens every day -- a sensitive document lies in the copier room, forgotten by the person who left it on the scanner. No big deal, right? Nobody else was able to read it.
September 02, 2010 11:02 AM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Malicious hackers are using the Google Code repository to host Trojans horses, backdoors and password stealing keyloggers, according to researchers at Zscaler.
September 02, 2010 11:00 AM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: A group of security researchers began issuing what they said will be a month-long list of undisclosed bugs, as well as detailed binary analysis of known vulnerabilities. The first zero-day: A Linux-based Web hosting console.
September 02, 2010 10:59 AM
<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Google on Monday said that a recent report claiming it failed to patch one-third of the serious bugs in its software had the facts wrong. IBM's X-Force security unit, which released the report last week, acknowledged the error and issued a revised chart that shows Google patched all the vulnerabilities rated "critical" or "high" in its online services.
September 02, 2010 10:57 AM
(Aug 31) Several implementation errors in the dissector of the Wireshark network traffic analyzer for the ASN.1 BER protocol and in the SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. [More...]
September 02, 2010 02:00 AM
August 31, 2010
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Captivate 5.0.0.596, and possibly other versions, allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll that is located in the same folder as a .cptx file. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
August 31, 2010 10:00 PM
Untrusted search path vulnerability in ATL MFC Trace Tool (AtlTraceTool8.exe), as used in Microsoft Visual Studio, allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll that is located in the same folder as a TRC, cur, rs, rct, or res file.
August 31, 2010 10:00 PM
The extSetOwner function in the UfProxyBrowserCtrl ActiveX control (UfPBCtrl.dll) in Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid address that is dereferenced as a pointer.
August 31, 2010 10:00 PM
SQL injection vulnerability in search.aspx in BugTracker.NET 3.4.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a custom field to the search page.
August 31, 2010 10:00 PM
The IPersistPropertyBag2::Read function in QTPlugin.ocx in Apple QuickTime 6.x, 7.x, and other versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the _Marshaled_pUnk attribute, which triggers unmarshaling of an untrusted pointer.
August 31, 2010 10:00 PM
IBM DB2 9.7 before FP2 does not perform the expected access control on the monitor administrative views in the SYSIBMADM schema, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM
IBM DB2 9.7 before FP2, when AUTO_REVAL is IMMEDIATE, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (loss of privileges) to a view owner by defining a dependent view.
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM
Unspecified vulnerability in IBM DB2 9.1 before FP9, 9.5 before FP6, and 9.7 before FP2 on Windows Server 2008 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (trap) via vectors involving "special group and user enumeration."
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM
The DB2DART program in IBM DB2 9.1 before FP9, 9.5 before FP6, and 9.7 before FP2 allows attackers to bypass intended file access restrictions via unspecified vectors related to overwriting files owned by an instance owner.
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM
Unspecified vulnerability in the DB2STST program in IBM DB2 9.1 before FP9, 9.5 before FP6, and 9.7 before FP2 has unknown impact and attack vectors.
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Free CGI Moo moobbs2 before 1.03 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Free CGI Moo moobbs before 1.03 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.
August 31, 2010 12:00 AM
August 30, 2010
Cisco IOS XR 3.4.0 through 3.9.1, when BGP is enabled, does not properly handle unrecognized transitive attributes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peering reset) via a crafted prefix announcement, as demonstrated in the wild in August 2010 with attribute type code 99, aka Bug ID CSCti62211.
August 30, 2010 10:00 PM
Unspecified vulnerability in Software Distributor (sd) in HP HP-UX B.11.11, B.11.23, and B.11.31 allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors.
August 30, 2010 10:00 PM
Heap-based buffer overflow in the RLE decompression functionality in the TranscribePalmImageToJPEG function in generators/plucker/inplug/image.cpp in Okular in KDE SC 4.3.0 through 4.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image in a PDB file.
August 30, 2010 10:00 PM
Buffer overflow in ftpd in IBM AIX 5.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long NLST command.
August 30, 2010 10:00 PM
IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.x before 7.0.0.13, and WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web Services 6.1.0.9 through 6.1.0.32, when a JAX-WS application is used, does not properly handle an IncludeTimestamp setting in the WS-Security policy, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.
August 30, 2010 10:00 PM
Unspecified vulnerability in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1 allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions on files via unknown vectors.
August 30, 2010 10:00 PM