(Mar 9) Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in sudo, a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: [More…]
Archive for March 13th, 2013
(Mar 9) Yves Orton discovered a flaw in the rehashing code of Perl. This flaw could be exploited to carry out a denial of service attack against code that uses arbitrary user input as hash keys. Specifically an attacker could create a set of keys of a hash causing a denial of service via [More…]
(Mar 8) Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened amalicious website.
Red Hat: 2013:0625-01: java-1.6.0-ibm: Critical Advisory
(Mar 11) Updated java-1.6.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical [More…]
Red Hat: 2013:0628-01: 389-ds-base: Moderate Advisory
(Mar 11) Updated 389-ds-base packages that fix one security issue and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More…]