[SECURITY] [DSA 261-1] New tcpdump packages fix denial of service vulnerability

2003-03-14 Thread Martin Schulze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 261-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 14th, 2003

RE: response to tax software not encrypting tax info

2003-03-14 Thread er t
Mom and Pop use this software, your English teacher uses this software, probably even your local baker... This is a case of Vendor vs. User... I Thank PivX for helping the Community and WE must help out our users. You can almost bet the that the users of the Tax program use IE to surf the

Vulnerability in OpenSSL

2003-03-14 Thread David Brumley
Dan Boneh and I have been researching timing attacks against software crypto libraries. Timing attacks are usually used to attack weak computing devices such as smartcards. We've successfully developed and mounted timing attacks against software crypto libraries running on general purpose PC's.

Buffer overflows in ircII-based clients

2003-03-14 Thread Timo Sirainen
. 20030314 snapshot should fix these. EPIC4 1.0.1 --- This is the PRODUCTION release which you should be using. 1) EPIC has grown max. input line of server from the old 4096 to 8192, but without growing BIG_SERVER_BUFFER from 4096. There's at least one place where you can overflow

Win32: Postmessage API security flaw

2003-03-14 Thread Palan
Hello, I would like to bring to your notice a certain vulnerability that has existed in Win 9x platforms for many years and now in Win2k/XP. Most of us our familiar with password revealers and password stealing trojans. Though flaws in Windows Messaging API have been show before this one

GiantRat Mailer exposes PoP password

2003-03-14 Thread maninthemiddle
Security advisory Issue: GiantRat Mailer exposes plain text PoP password Date: 03/13/03 Vendor first notified: Febuary 2003 Affected versions: All (tested v3.1, 2.x, 1.x ABOUT GiantRat Mailer: GiantRat Mailer is an innovative email client that has settings for the sight-impaired and has

Obfuscating sensitive data? (was: response to tax software not encrypting tax info)

2003-03-14 Thread Andreas Beck
Hmmm - I originally didn't want to take part in that discussion, but we are seeing more and more Vulnerabilities reported about sensitive Information in Files not being obscured by some crypto. Let's start out with the latest comments: What could help our users is a default simple encryption

[OpenPKG-SA-2003.018] OpenPKG Security Advisory (qpopper)

2003-03-14 Thread OpenPKG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OpenPKG Security AdvisoryThe OpenPKG Project http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

@(#)Mordred Labs advisory - Texis sensitive information leak

2003-03-14 Thread sir . mordred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- //@(#) Mordred Security Labs advisory Release date: March 15, 2003 Name: Texis sensitive information leak Versions affected: all versions Risk: average Author: Sir Mordred ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://mslabs.iwebland.com) I. Description: Thunderstone is an

Unknown trust error when downloading ocget.dll

2003-03-14 Thread Ken Fischer
Greetings, We have run into a problem this afternoon with the copy of ocget.dll that is located at: http://codecs.microsoft.com/objects/ocget.dll It seems that it is either signed improperly, or not at all. This .dll is loaded automatically by IE when .cab files are downloaded from the

Re: Obfuscating sensitive data? (was: response to tax software not encrypting tax info)

2003-03-14 Thread Dan Harkless
Andreas Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) If 1) cannot be done for some reason, use _strong_ encryption to _encrypt_ the data. XORing them with wrdlbrmft will just make an attacker laugh, assuming he is just a bit smarter than a piece of wood. Never just obfuscate the passwords by

Guestbook v1.1.3 CSS Vuln

2003-03-14 Thread flur
Project: Filebased guestbook. Author:Copyright (c) Urs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.1.3 Update:17-09-2002 Homepage: http://www.circle.ch/scripts/ This PHP guest book script is vulnerable to hostile cross scripting in the 'comment' section of guest book posts. Comments span across

RE: response to tax software not encrypting tax info

2003-03-14 Thread Ken.Williams
Hi, I have read both of the original advisories, and all of the replies on this subject, and nobody yet has properly assessed AND emphasized the actual risk associated with this tax software. Lots of software programs do not encrypt sensitive data, but what makes this tax software different,

Security Update: [CSSA-2003-012.0] Linux: KDE rlogin.protocol and telnet.protocol url kio Vulnerability

2003-03-14 Thread security
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ SCO Security Advisory Subject:Linux: KDE rlogin.protocol and telnet.protocol url kio Vulnerability Advisory number: