OLS3's underground

June 08, 2011

Linuxsecurity.com

Google Fixes 15 Bugs in Chrome, Gives Users Ability to Delete Flash Cookies

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Google has fixed more than a dozen security bugs in its Chrome browser, including five high-severity vulnerabilities and one that qualified for the company's highest bug bounty, a $3133.7 reward.

June 08, 2011 09:38 PM

CVE

CVE-2011-1584 (dotclear)

The updateFile function in inc/core/class.dc.media.php in the Media Manager in Dotclear before 2.2.3 does not properly restrict pathnames, which allows remote authenticated users to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code via the media_path or media_file parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

June 08, 2011 08:00 PM

CVE-2010-4663 (cms_made_simple)

Unspecified vulnerability in the News module in CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) before 1.9.1 has unknown impact and attack vectors.

June 08, 2011 08:00 PM

CVE-2009-5076 (cre_loaded)

CRE Loaded before 6.2.14, and possibly other versions before 6.3.x, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges via a request with (1) login.php or (2) password_forgotten.php appended as the PATH_INFO, which bypasses a check that uses PHP_SELF, which is not properly handled by (a) includes/application_top.php and (b) admin/includes/application_top.php, as exploited in the wild in 2009.

June 08, 2011 08:00 PM

CVE-2009-5077 (cre_loaded)

CRE Loaded before 6.2.14 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges via vectors related to a modified PHP_SELF variable, which is not properly handled by (1) includes/application_top.php and (2) admin/includes/application_top.php.

June 08, 2011 08:00 PM

CVE-2011-2386 (site_survey)

VisiWaveReport.exe in AZO Technologies, Inc. VisiWave Site Survey before 2.1.9 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) vws and (2) vwr file with an invalid Type property, which triggers an untrusted pointer dereference.

June 08, 2011 08:00 PM

Linuxsecurity.com

Google Releases Chrome 12, Adds Security and 3D

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Google has released an update for its Chrome browser, bringing security and 3D improvements. As with previous updates to Chrome, the biggest boasts of version 12 relate to security. The Safe Browsing behind-the-scenes protection has been extended to warn users against downloading dangerous files, although right now this only applies to Windows .exe files.

June 08, 2011 02:44 PM

Lessons Learned from the Government Gmail Hack

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: We learned last week that a hacker in China reportedly obtained access to numerous Gmail accounts, including those of senior U.S. government officials, military personnel, Chinese political activists and journalists. How serious is this, and what is the best way to protect yourself and your users?

June 08, 2011 12:37 PM

Red Hat: 2011:0862-01: subversion: Moderate Advisory

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Updated subversion packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]

June 08, 2011 12:37 PM

Red Hat: 2011:0861-01: subversion: Moderate Advisory

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Updated subversion packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]

June 08, 2011 12:36 PM

Wireshark 1.6.0 Released

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education. The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since version 1.4: Wireshark is now distributed as an installation package rather than a drag-installer on OS X. The installer adds a startup item that should make it easier to capture packets.

June 08, 2011 12:35 PM

Red Hat: 2011:0859-01: cyrus-imapd: Moderate Advisory

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Updated cyrus-imapd packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]

June 08, 2011 12:32 PM

Red Hat: 2011:0860-01: java-1.6.0-sun: Critical Advisory

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Updated java-1.6.0-sun packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary. [More...]

June 08, 2011 12:32 PM

Red Hat: 2011:0856-01: java-1.6.0-openjdk: Critical Advisory

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical [More...]

June 08, 2011 12:19 PM

Red Hat: 2011:0858-01: xerces-j2: Moderate Advisory

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Updated xerces-j2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]

June 08, 2011 12:19 PM

Java update tackles multiple critical flaws

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Oracle has released a cross-platform update for Java that addresses 17 vulnerabilities in the ubiquitous software platform.

June 08, 2011 09:48 AM

Sony had its Brazil site cracked

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: Console maker Sony, which made a grave mistake by declaring war on hackers, has lost another website, this time in Brazil. The outfit had to shut down its Brazilian music website as it looked into a possible server breach.

June 08, 2011 09:46 AM

CVE

CVE-2011-2468

Directory traversal vulnerability in the web interface in AnyMacro Mail System G4X allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in a request.

June 08, 2011 12:00 AM

CVE-2011-2395

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in Cisco IOS on unspecified switches allows remote attackers to bypass the Router Advertisement Guarding functionality via a fragmented IPv6 packet in which the Router Advertisement (RA) message is contained in the second fragment, as demonstrated by (1) a packet in which the first fragment contains a long Destination Options extension header or (2) a packet in which the first fragment contains an ICMPv6 Echo Request message.

June 08, 2011 12:00 AM

CVE-2011-2107

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.181.22 on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris, and 10.3.185.22 and earlier on Android, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, related to a "universal cross-site scripting vulnerability."

June 08, 2011 12:00 AM

CVE-2011-1711

Unspecified vulnerability in the Mobility Pack 1.1.2 and earlier in Novell Data Synchronizer 1.0.x, and 1.1.x through 1.1.1 build 428, allows remote authenticated users to access the accounts of other users via unknown vectors.

June 08, 2011 12:00 AM

June 07, 2011

Debian Linux

Using the sec-wall Security Proxy

(Jun 7) This article full of examples will show you various ways to test services secured using sec-wall, a feature-packed high performance security proxy. We'll be using cURL, a popular Linux comma ...

June 07, 2011 10:00 PM

Linuxsecurity.com

Using the sec-wall Security Proxy

<b>LinuxSecurity.com</b>: This article full of examples will show you various ways to test services secured using sec-wall, a feature-packed high performance security proxy. We'll be using cURL, a popular Linux command line tool and PycURL - a Python interface to cURL. As of version 1.0, sec-wall supports HTTP Basic auth, digest auth, custom HTTP headers, XPath-based authentication, WS-Security & SSL/TLS client certificates and each of the options is being shown below.

June 07, 2011 04:54 PM

June 06, 2011

CVE

CVE-2011-0767 (securesphere_web_application_firewall)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the management GUI in the MX Management Server in Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall 6.2, 7.x, and 8.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTTP request to a firewalled server, aka Bug ID 31759.

June 06, 2011 10:00 PM

CVE-2011-0082 (firefox)

The X.509 certificate validation functionality in Mozilla Firefox 4.0.x through 4.0.1 does not properly implement single-session security exceptions, which might make it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to spoof an SSL server via an untrusted certificate that triggers potentially unwanted local caching of documents from that server.

June 06, 2011 10:00 PM

CVE-2011-1783 (http_server, subversion)

The mod_dav_svn module for the Apache HTTP Server, as distributed in Apache Subversion 1.5.x and 1.6.x before 1.6.17, when the SVNPathAuthz short_circuit option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory consumption) in opportunistic circumstances by requesting data.

June 06, 2011 10:00 PM

CVE-2011-1752 (http_server, subversion)

The mod_dav_svn module for the Apache HTTP Server, as distributed in Apache Subversion before 1.6.17, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a request for a baselined WebDAV resource, as exploited in the wild in May 2011.

June 06, 2011 10:00 PM

CVE-2011-1178 (gimp)

Multiple integer overflows in the load_image function in file-pcx.c in the Personal Computer Exchange (PCX) plugin in GIMP 2.6.x and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PCX image that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

June 06, 2011 10:00 PM

CVE-2011-1921 (subversion)

The mod_dav_svn module for the Apache HTTP Server, as distributed in Apache Subversion 1.5.x and 1.6.x before 1.6.17, when the SVNPathAuthz short_circuit option is disabled, does not properly enforce permissions for files that had been publicly readable in the past, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a replay REPORT operation.

June 06, 2011 10:00 PM

CVE-2011-1787 (workstation, player, fusion, esx, esxi)

Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 though 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.

June 06, 2011 10:00 PM