Eric Dumazet of Google found a very dangerous remote execution bug in the Linux Kernel. It's located in the recv-syscall with the MSG_PEEK-flag set. Attackers can remotely execute code on the target..
I used a google-dork to find vulnerable software:
MSG_PEEK filetype:c
And found some possible targets:
The latest wikileaks revealings gave also insights about an interesting bug in cisco products. No I am not talking about the bug in the Cisco Cluster Management Protocol (CMP). I am talking about the open telnet ports.Ten years ago it was already recommended to use ssh instead and there are still so many devices out t
During my research about update mechanisms of open-source software I discovered vulnerabilities in OpenElec.
Many years ago, someone mentioned on a congress that apache has an interesting feature: if apache doesn't know a file-extension, it will just take the next one. If someone saves a file called "shell.php.ab", apache would not know what to do with the extension ".ab". So it will just skip this one and uses the next one and the file "evil.php.ab" becomes "evil.php" and gets executed.
Certificate Transparency is a great idea. All certificate-related activities on a certificate authority will be logged into a public database(it's a merkle-table), so that anyone can monitor or review the certificates. Commodo published a very handy web-tool to query the logs.
End-To-End-Encryption is nothing new. With messengers like Whatsapp or Telegram it's again an issue. If E2E-Encryption means that nobody but the endpoints are able to encrypt the messages, then how is this feature implemented so seamlessly?
