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Security

HP Security Bulletin HPSBGN03099

HP Security Bulletin HPSBGN03099 – A potential security vulnerability has been identified with HP IceWall SSO Dfw, SSO Agent and MCRP running OpenSSL. The vulnerability could be exploited remotely resulting in disclosure of information. Revision 1 of this advisory.

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-172

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-172 – The gdImageCreateFromXpm function in gdxpm.c in libgd, as used in PHP 5.4.26 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted color table in an XPM file. file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. Various other issues have also been addressed. The updated php packages have been upgraded to the 5.5.16 version resolve these security flaws. Additionally, php-apc has been rebuilt against the updated php packages and the php-timezonedb packages has been upgraded to the 2014.6 version.

CERT/CC Enumerates Android App SSL Validation Failures

The CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon today released a list of Android applications hosted on Google Play and Amazon that it says fail to validate SSL certificates over HTTPS.