science and technology Pytacle Alpha2 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 01:11:11 GMT pytacle is a tool inspired by tentacle. It automates the task of sniffing GSM frames of the air, extracting the key exchange, feeding kraken with the key material and finally decode/decrypt the voice data. All You need is a USRP (or similar) to capture the GSM band and a kraken instance with the berlin tables (only about 2TB). Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.2 Beta 3 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:02:22 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology DAWIN - Distributed Audit and Wireless Intrustion Notification By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:34:16 GMT DA-WIN, a wireless IDS, provides an organization a continuous wireless scanning capability that is light touch and simple. It utilizes compact and discreet sensors that can easily be deployed reducing the total cost of protection and simplifying the effort required for absolute, categoric regulatory compliance. This archive includes a dd image to be used on a Raspberry Pi and a user manual. Full Article
science and technology WifiPhisher Phishing Tool By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:33:33 GMT Wifiphisher is a security tool that mounts fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks in order to obtain the secret passphrase. It is a social engineering attack that unlike other methods it does not include any brute forcing. It is an easy way for obtaining WPA credentials. Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.2 RC2 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:05:23 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology DAWIN - Distributed Audit and Wireless Intrustion Notification 2.0 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:52:43 GMT DA-WIN, a wireless IDS, provides an organization a continuous wireless scanning capability that is light touch and simple. It utilizes compact and discreet sensors that can easily be deployed reducing the total cost of protection and simplifying the effort required for absolute, categoric regulatory compliance. This archive includes a dd image to be used on a Raspberry Pi and a user manual. Full Article
science and technology TRENDnet TEW-818RDU PIN Disclosure By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 06:22:22 GMT TRENDnet TEW-818RDU versions 1 ("ac1900") and 2 ("ac3200") PIN disclosure exploit. Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.2 RC3 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 15:55:55 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.2 RC4 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:29:48 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.2 RC5 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:29:30 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.2 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:22:22 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.3 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 02:52:27 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.4 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 17:53:31 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology Aircrack-ng Wireless Network Tools 1.6 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:08:40 GMT aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. It's an enhanced/reborn version of aircrack. It consists of airodump (an 802.11 packet capture program), aireplay (an 802.11 packet injection program), aircrack (static WEP and WPA-PSK cracking), airdecap (decrypts WEP/WPA capture files), and some tools to handle capture files (merge, convert, etc.). Full Article
science and technology man-cgi Local File Inclusion By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 01:11:11 GMT man-cgi versions prior to 1.16 suffer from a local file inclusion vulnerability. Full Article
science and technology Teltonika RUT9XX Unauthenticated OS Command Injection By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:16:15 GMT Teltonika RUT9XX routers with firmware before 00.04.233 are prone to multiple unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerabilities in autologin.cgi and hotspotlogin.cgi due to insufficient user input sanitization. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. Full Article
science and technology Teltonika RUT9XX Reflected Cross Site Scripting By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:22:13 GMT Teltonika RUT9XX routers with firmware before 00.05.01.1 are prone to cross site scripting vulnerabilities in hotspotlogin.cgi due to insufficient user input sanitization. Full Article
science and technology FLIR Systems FLIR Brickstream 3D+ Unauthenticated Config Download File Disclosure By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:58:29 GMT The FLIR Brickstream 3D+ sensor is vulnerable to unauthenticated config download and file disclosure vulnerability when calling the ExportConfig REST API (getConfigExportFile.cgi). This will enable the attacker to disclose sensitive information and help her in authentication bypass, privilege escalation and/or full system access. Full Article
science and technology Synaccess netBooter NP-02x / NP-08x 6.8 Authentication Bypass By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:09:21 GMT Synaccess netBooter NP-02x and NP-08x version 6.8 suffer from an authentication bypass vulnerability due to a missing control check when calling the webNewAcct.cgi script while creating users. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to create an admin user account and bypass authentication giving her the power to turn off a power supply to a resource. Full Article
science and technology Webmin 1.900 Remote Command Execution By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:44:44 GMT This Metasploit module exploits an arbitrary command execution vulnerability in Webmin versions 1.900 and below. Any user authorized to the "Java file manager" and "Upload and Download" fields, to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges. In addition, "Running Processes" field must be authorized to discover the directory to be uploaded. A vulnerable file can be printed on the original files of the Webmin application. The vulnerable file we are uploading should be integrated with the application. Therefore, a ".cgi" file with the vulnerability belong to webmin application should be used. The module has been tested successfully with Webmin version 1.900 over Debian 4.9.18. Full Article
science and technology devolo dLAN 550 duo+ 3.1.0-1 Starter Kit Remote Code Execution By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 02:33:18 GMT devolo dLAN 550 duo+ version 3.1.0-1 suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability. The devolo firmware has what seems to be a 'hidden' services which can be enabled by authenticated attacker via the the htmlmgr CGI script. This allows the attacker to start services that are deprecated or discontinued and achieve remote arbitrary code execution with root privileges. Full Article
science and technology Imperva SecureSphere 13.x PWS Command Injection By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:19:49 GMT This Metasploit module exploits a command injection vulnerability in Imperva SecureSphere version 13.x. The vulnerability exists in the PWS service, where Python CGIs did not properly sanitize user supplied command parameters and directly passes them to corresponding CLI utility, leading to command injection. Agent registration credential is required to exploit SecureSphere in gateway mode. This module was successfully tested on Imperva SecureSphere 13.0/13.1/13.2 in pre-ftl mode and unsealed gateway mode. Full Article
science and technology Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 ACEManager iplogging.cgi Command Injection By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 19:32:22 GMT An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the ACEManager iplogging.cgi functionality of Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 FW 4.9.3. A specially crafted HTTP request can inject arbitrary commands, resulting in arbitrary command execution. An attacker can send an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability. Full Article
science and technology Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 ACEManager upload.cgi Unverified Password Change By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:32:22 GMT An exploitable unverified password change vulnerability exists in the ACEManager upload.cgi functionality of Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 FW 4.9.3. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a unverified device configuration change, resulting in an unverified change of the user password on the device. An attacker can make an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability. Full Article
science and technology Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 ACEManager ping_result.cgi Cross Site Scripting By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:01:11 GMT An exploitable cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the ACEManager ping_result.cgi functionality of Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 FW 4.9.3. A specially crafted HTTP ping request can cause reflected javascript code execution, resulting in the execution of javascript code running on the victim's browser. An attacker can get a victim to click a link, or embedded URL, that redirects to the reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability to trigger this vulnerability. Full Article
science and technology Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 ACEManager upload.cgi Remote Code Execution By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:01:11 GMT An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the upload.cgi functionality of Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 FW 4.9.3. A specially crafted HTTP request can upload a file, resulting in executable code being uploaded, and routable, to the webserver. An attacker can make an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability. Full Article
science and technology Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 ACEManager Embedded_Ace_Get_Task.cgi Information Disclosure By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:44:44 GMT An exploitable Information Disclosure vulnerability exists in the ACEManager EmbeddedAceGet_Task.cgi functionality of Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 FW 4.9.3. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause an information disclosure, resulting in the exposure of confidential information, including, but not limited to, plaintext passwords and SNMP community strings. An attacker can make an authenticated HTTP request, or run the binary, to trigger this vulnerability. Full Article
science and technology Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 ACEManager Embedded_Ace_Set_Task.cgi Permission Assignment By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:55:55 GMT An exploitable Permission Assignment vulnerability exists in the ACEManager EmbeddedAceSet_Task.cgi functionality of Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 FW 4.9.3. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a arbitrary setting writes, resulting in the unverified changes to any system setting. An attacker can make an authenticated HTTP request, or run the binary as any user, to trigger this vulnerability. Full Article
science and technology Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 ACEManager template_load.cgi Information Disclosure By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 17:20:43 GMT An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the ACEManager template_load.cgi functionality of Sierra Wireless AirLink ES450 FW 4.9.3. A specially crafted HTTP request can cause a information leak, resulting in the disclosure of internal paths and files. An attacker can make an authenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability. Full Article
science and technology RICOH SP 4510DN Printer HTML Injection By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Thu, 09 May 2019 14:55:55 GMT An HTML Injection vulnerability has been discovered on the RICOH SP 4510DN via the /web/entry/en/address/adrsSetUserWizard.cgi entryNameIn parameter. Full Article
science and technology RICOH SP 4520DN Printer HTML Injection By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Thu, 09 May 2019 18:22:22 GMT An HTML Injection vulnerability has been discovered on the RICOH SP 4520DN via the /web/entry/en/address/adrsSetUserWizard.cgi entryNameIn or entryDisplayNameIn parameter. Full Article
science and technology Telus Actiontec WEB6000Q Denial Of Service By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:44:21 GMT Telus Actiontec WEB6000Q with firmware 1.1.02.22 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability. By querying CGI endpoints with empty (GET/POST/HEAD) requests causes a Segmentation Fault of the uhttpd webserver. Since there is no watchdog on this daemon, a device reboot is needed to restart the webserver to make any modification to the device. Full Article
science and technology ABB IDAL HTTP Server Authentication Bypass By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:32:22 GMT The IDAL HTTP server CGI interface contains a URL, which allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to privileged functions. In the IDAL CGI interface, there is a URL (/cgi/loginDefaultUser), which will create a session in an authenticated state and return the session ID along with the username and plaintext password of the user. An attacker can then login with the provided credentials or supply the string 'IDALToken=......' in a cookie which will allow them to perform privileged operations such as restarting the service with /cgi/restart. Full Article
science and technology Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4059-1 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:09:51 GMT Ubuntu Security Notice 4059-1 - It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain SNMP packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause memory consumption, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled the cachemgr.cgi web module. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Various other issues were also addressed. Full Article
science and technology Debian Security Advisory 4507-1 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:54:12 GMT Debian Linux Security Advisory 4507-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Squid, a fully featured web proxy cache. The flaws in the HTTP Digest Authentication processing, the HTTP Basic Authentication processing and in the cachemgr.cgi allowed remote attackers to perform denial of service and cross-site scripting attacks, and potentially the execution of arbitrary code. Full Article
science and technology Rifatron Intelligent Digital Security System (animate.cgi) Stream Disclosure By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:46:02 GMT The Rifatron Intelligent Digital Security System DVR suffers from an unauthenticated and unauthorized live stream disclosure when animate.cgi script is called through Mobile Web Viewer module. Full Article
science and technology Barco WePresent file_transfer.cgi Command Injection By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:16:55 GMT This Metasploit module exploits an unauthenticated remote command injection vulnerability found in Barco WePresent and related OEM'ed products. The vulnerability is triggered via an HTTP POST request to the file_transfer.cgi endpoint. Full Article
science and technology D-Link DIR-859 Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:26:01 GMT D-Link DIR-859 Routers are vulnerable to OS command injection via the UPnP interface. The vulnerability exists in /gena.cgi (function genacgi_main() in /htdocs/cgibin), which is accessible without credentials. Full Article
science and technology Zen Load Balancer 3.10.1 Directory Traversal By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:32:15 GMT This Metasploit module exploits an authenticated directory traversal vulnerability in Zen Load Balancer version 3.10.1. The flaw exists in index.cgi not properly handling the filelog= parameter which allows a malicious actor to load arbitrary file path. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-208 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:20:27 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-208 - An issue has been identified in Mandriva Business Server 2's setup package where the /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files containing password hashes were created with incorrect permissions, making them world-readable. This update fixes this issue by enforcing that those files are owned by the root user and shadow group, and are only readable by those two entities. Note that this issue only affected new Mandriva Business Server 2 installations. Systems that were updated from previous Mandriva versions were not affected. This update was already issued as MDVSA-2015:184, but the latter was withdrawn as it generated.rpmnew files for critical configuration files, and rpmdrake might propose the user to use those basically empty files, thus leading to loss of passwords or partition table. This new update ensures that such.rpmnew files are not kept after the update. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-209 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:21:20 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-209 - Update PHP packages address buffer over-read and overflow vulnerabilities. PHP has been updated to version 5.5.24, which fixes these issues and other bugs. Additionally the timezonedb packages has been upgraded to the latest version and the PECL packages which requires so has been rebuilt for php-5.5.24. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-210 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:22:27 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-210 - A denial of service flaw was found in the way QEMU handled malformed Physical Region Descriptor Table data sent to the host's IDE and/or AHCI controller emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the system. It was found that the QEMU's websocket frame decoder processed incoming frames without limiting resources used to process the header and the payload. An attacker able to access a guest's VNC console could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service on the host by exhausting all available memory and CPU. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-211 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:23:02 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-211 - glusterfs was vulnerable to a fragment header infinite loop denial of service attack. Also, the glusterfsd SysV init script was failing to properly start the service. This was fixed by replacing it with systemd unit files for the service that work properly. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-212 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:55:24 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-212 - An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrusted Java application or applet to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot component in OpenJDK handled phantom references. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt the Java Virtual Machine memory and, possibly, execute arbitrary code, bypassing Java sandbox restrictions. A flaw was found in the way the JSSE component in OpenJDK parsed X.509 certificate options. A specially crafted certificate could cause JSSE to raise an exception, possibly causing an application using JSSE to exit unexpectedly. A flaw was discovered in the Beans component in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions. A directory traversal flaw was found in the way the jar tool extracted JAR archive files. A specially crafted JAR archive could cause jar to overwrite arbitrary files writable by the user running jar when the archive was extracted. It was found that the RSA implementation in the JCE component in OpenJDK did not follow recommended practices for implementing RSA signatures. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-213 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:22:00 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-213 - lftp incorrectly validates wildcard SSL certificates containing literal IP addresses, so under certain conditions, it would allow and use a wildcard match specified in the CN field, allowing a malicious server to participate in a MITM attack or just fool users into believing that it is a legitimate site. lftp was affected by this issue as it uses code from cURL for checking SSL certificates. The curl package was fixed in MDVSA-2015:098. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-214 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:23:00 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-214 - The libksba package has been updated to version 1.3.3, which fixes an integer overflow in the DN decoder and a couple of other minor bugs. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-215 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:25:00 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-215 - The t1utils package has been updated to version 1.39, which fixes a buffer overrun, infinite loop, and stack overflow in t1disasm. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-216 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:28:00 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-216 - Lack of filtering in the title parameter of links to rrdPlugin allowed cross-site-scripting attacks against users of the web interface. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-217 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:46:33 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-217 - SQLite before 3.8.9 does not properly implement the dequoting of collation-sequence names, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COLLATE clause, as demonstrated by COLLATE at the end of a SELECT statement. The sqlite3VdbeExec function in vdbe.c in SQLite before 3.8.9 does not properly implement comparison operators, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free operation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted CHECK clause, as demonstrated by CHECK in a CREATE TABLE statement. The sqlite3VXPrintf function in printf.c in SQLite before 3.8.9 does not properly handle precision and width values during floating-point conversions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via large integers in a crafted printf function call in a SELECT statement. The updated packages provides a solution for these security issues. Full Article
science and technology Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-218 By packetstormsecurity.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:46:57 GMT Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-218 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in glibc. It was discovered that, under certain circumstances, glibc's getaddrinfo() function would send DNS queries to random file descriptors. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to send DNS queries to unintended recipients, resulting in information disclosure or data loss due to the application encountering corrupted data. Various other issues were also addressed. The updated packages provides a solution for these security issues. Full Article