Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1173-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s Stream Control Transmission Protocol implementation handled duplicate cookies. If a local user queried SCTP connection information at the same time a remote attacker has initialized…

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2743-1 – Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeBSD kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation or information leak…….

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2744-1 – Pedro Ribeiro and Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala discovered multiple vulnerabilities in various tools shipped by the tiff library. Processing a malformed file may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code…….

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-222 – It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled the resource_type service. A local attacker on the master could use this issue to execute arbitrary Ruby files. It was discovered that Puppet incorrectly handled permissions on the modules it installed. Modules could be installed with the permissions that existed when they…

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-220 – Three buffer overflows in Little CMS version 1.19 that could possibly be exploited through user input…….

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-221 – The openssl_x509_parse function in openssl.c in the OpenSSL module in PHP before 5.4.18 and 5.5.x before 5.5.2 does not properly handle a ‘\0’ character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a…

‘Box offers 10GB for free? Cute. Here’s 25GB’……

True-to-life “I Forgot My Phone” shows just how much smartphones can interrupt the simple joys of daily life. It might just make you laugh at yourself…….

Recent buggy updates to the Windows Media Format Runtime and Exchange Server 2003 have been re-released…….

New submitter the eric conspiracy sends this quote from NBC: “An outbreak of measles tied to a Texas megachurch where ministers have questioned vaccination has sickened at least 21 people, including a 4-month-old infant — and it’s expected to spread further, state and federal health officials said. ‘There’s likely a lot more susceptible people,’ said…