Monthly Archives: November 2014
Global cybersecurity skills shortage incoming, warns House of Lords committee
A special Parliamentary Select Committee has told peers in the United Kingdom’s House of Lords that there will be a global shortage of “no less than two million cyber security professionals” by the year 2017, IT Pro Portal reports.
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CVE-2014-3654 (network_satellite, spacewalk-java)
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in spacewalk-java 2.0.2 in Spacewalk and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.5 and 5.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors to (1) kickstart/cobbler/CustomSnippetList.do, (2) channels/software/Entitlements.do, or (3) admin/multiorg/OrgUsers.do.
CVE-2014-3712
Katello allows remote attackers to cause a denial foser service (memory consumption) via the (1) mode parameter in the setup_utils function in content_search_controller.rb or (2) action parameter in the respond function in api/api_controller.rb in app/controllers/katello/, which is passed to the to_sym method.
CVE-2014-5271
Heap-based buffer overflow in the encode_slice function in libavcodec/proresenc_kostya.c in FFMpeg before 1.1.14, 1.2.x before 1.2.8, 2.x before 2.2.7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.3 and Libav before 10.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
CVE-2014-5507
iBackup 10.0.0.32 and earlier uses weak permissions (Everyone: Full Control) for ib_service.exe, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.
CVE-2014-5272
libavcodec/iff.c in FFMpeg before 1.1.14, 1.2.x before 1.2.8, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted iff image, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access, related to the rgb8 and rgbn formats.
CVE-2014-8080
The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
CVE-2014-8350
Smarty before 3.1.21 allows remote attackers to bypass the secure mode restrictions and execute arbitrary PHP code as demonstrated by “{literal}<{/literal}script language=php>” in a template.
CVE-2014-8494
ESTsoft ALUpdate 8.5.1.0.0 uses weak permissions (Users: Full Control) for the (1) AlUpdate folder and (2) AlUpdate.exe, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.