Monthly Archives: March 2016

Hackers News

DARPA Invites Geeks to Convert Everyday Objects into Deadly Weapons

Do you know that your daily household items can be turned into deadly weapons?

Yes, it’s possible to convert some of your everyday household appliances into explosives, weapons or surveillance devices.

DARPA – the agency which does research in various fields for improving the US Military and US Department of Defense capabilities – had announced a new project dubbed “Improv” to transform

NVD

CVE-2016-1992

HPE ArcSight ESM before 6.8c, and ArcSight ESM Express before 6.9.1, allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

NVD

CVE-2016-2342

The bgp_nlri_parse_vpnv4 function in bgp_mplsvpn.c in the VPNv4 NLRI parser in bgpd in Quagga before 1.0.20160309, when a certain VPNv4 configuration is used, relies on a Labeled-VPN SAFI routes-data length field during a data copy, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted packet.

Redhat

RHSA-2016:0460-1: Important: thunderbird security update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.
CVE-2016-1952, CVE-2016-1954, CVE-2016-1957, CVE-2016-1960, CVE-2016-1961, CVE-2016-1964, CVE-2016-1966, CVE-2016-1974, CVE-2016-1977, CVE-2016-2790, CVE-2016-2791, CVE-2016-2792, CVE-2016-2793, CVE-2016-2794, CVE-2016-2795, CVE-2016-2796, CVE-2016-2797, CVE-2016-2798, CVE-2016-2799, CVE-2016-2800, CVE-2016-2801, CVE-2016-2802