The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and worker process crash) via a crafted UDP DNS response.
Monthly Archives: February 2016
CVE-2016-0746
Use-after-free vulnerability in the resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted DNS response related to CNAME response processing.
CVE-2016-0747
The resolver in nginx before 1.8.1 and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not properly limit CNAME resolution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (worker process resource consumption) via vectors related to arbitrary name resolution.
Wanna Mine Bitcoins Faster? Researchers Find New Way to Do it
A new machine for Bitcoin Mining called “Approximate Hardware” would make Bitcoin mining easier.
Bitcoin had gained tremendous popularity over a few couple of years among the virtual currencies due to its decentralized principle.
Mining a single Bitcoin is not an ice cake walk, as it requires an enormous amount of computing power to dig Bitcoins.
To overcome this issue and mine
Debian Security Advisory 3477-1
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3477-1 – Holger Fuhrmannek discovered that missing input sanitising in the Graphite font rendering engine could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Debian Security Advisory 3474-1
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3474-1 – Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman and Eran Tromer discovered that the ECDH secret decryption keys in applications using the libgcrypt20 library could be leaked via a side-channel attack.
Debian Security Advisory 3475-1
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3475-1 – Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.1, a SQL database system.
Debian Security Advisory 3476-1
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3476-1 – Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.4, a SQL database system.