CVE-2016-6367

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software before 8.4(1) on ASA 5500, ASA 5500-X, PIX, and FWSM devices allows local users to gain privileges via invalid CLI commands, aka Bug ID CSCtu74257 or EPICBANANA.

Microsoft Open Sources PowerShell; Now Available for Linux and Mac OS X

‘Microsoft loves Linux’ and this has never been so true than now.

Microsoft today made its PowerShell scripting language and command-line shell available to the open source developer community on GitHub under the permissive MIT license.
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The company has also launched alpha versions of PowerShell for Linux (specifically Red Hat, Ubuntu, and CentOS) and Mac OS X, in addition,

Debian Security Advisory 3649-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3649-1 – Felix Doerre and Vladimir Klebanov from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology discovered a flaw in the mixing functions of GnuPG’s random number generator. An attacker who obtains 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output.

Debian Security Advisory 3650-1

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3650-1 – Felix Doerre and Vladimir Klebanov from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology discovered a flaw in the mixing functions of Libgcrypt’s random number generator. An attacker who obtains 4640 bits from the RNG can trivially predict the next 160 bits of output.

Cisco Security Advisory 20160817-asa-snmp

Cisco Security Advisory – A vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) code of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute code. The vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow in the affected code area. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SNMP packets to the affected system. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code and obtain full control of the system or to cause a reload of the affected system. The attacker must know the SNMP community string to exploit this vulnerability. Note: Only traffic directed to the affected system can be used to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability affects systems configured in routed and transparent firewall mode only and in single or multiple context mode. This vulnerability can be triggered by IPv4 traffic only. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are workarounds that address this vulnerability.