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OpenSSL Patches Four Vulnerabilities

Original release date: October 16, 2014

OpenSSL has released updates patching four vulnerabilities, some of which may allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or execute man-in-the-middle attacks. The following updates are available:

  • OpenSSL 1.0.1 users should upgrade to 1.0.1j
  • OpenSSL 1.0.0 users should upgrade to 1.0.0o
  • OpenSSL 0.9.8 users should upgrade to 0.9.8zc

US-CERT recommends users and administrators review the OpenSSL Security Advisory for additional information and apply the necessary updates.

 

 


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Advisory 01/2014: Drupal7 – pre Auth SQL Injection Vulnerability

Posted by Stefan Horst on Oct 16

SektionEins GmbH
www.sektioneins.de

-= Security Advisory =-

Advisory: Drupal – pre-auth SQL Injection Vulnerability
Release Date: 2014/10/15
Last Modified: 2014/10/15
Author: Stefan Horst [stefan.horst[at]sektioneins.de]
Application: Drupal >= 7.0 <= 7.31
Severity: Full SQL injection, which results in total control and code execution of Website.
Risk: Highly Critical…

Bypassing blacklists based on IPy

Posted by Nicolas Grégoire on Oct 16

IPy is a Python “class and tools for handling of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
and networks” (https://github.com/haypo/python-ipy). This library is
sometimes used to implement blacklists forbidding internal, private or
loopback addresses.

Using octal encoding (supported by urllib2), it is possible to bypass
checks based on the result of the iptype() function. For example, IP
address ‘0177.0000.0000.0001’ is considered as…

New York Times nytimes.com Page Design XSS Vulnerability (Almost all Article Pages Before 2013 are Affected)

Posted by Jing Wang on Oct 16

New York Times nytimes.com Page Design XSS Vulnerability (Almost all
Article Pages Before 2013 are Affected)

Domain:
http://www.nytimes.com/

Vulnerability Description:
The vulnerability occurs at New York Times’s URLs. Nytimes (short for New
York Times) uses part of the URLs to construct its pages. However, it seems
that Nytimes does not filter the content used for the construction at all
before 2013.

Based on Nytimes’s Design, Almost all…