Weekly Newsletter from Help Net Security Issue 17 - 12.06.2000 - Covers weekly roundups of security related events. In this issue: DNS security in Austrailia, Cellphone worm, VBS plan worm, Winn Schwartau's war against the net, bots defend networks, Interview with Marcus Ranum of NFR, IE 5 Cross-frame security vulnerability, Kdelibs vulnerability for setuid KDE applications, ColdFusion Web Application Server DoS attack, Sendmail Workaround for Linux Capabilities Bug, and flaws in the SSL transaction handling of Netscape.
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PIKT is a multi-functional tool for monitoring systems, reporting and fixing problems, and managing system configurations. PIKT is quickly gathering potential as a serious security management system. PIKT comprises an embedded scripting language with unique, labor-saving features.
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oasis2.c sends spoofed ICMP_SOURCE_QUENCH packets, telling the victim host to slow down data transmission.
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CERT Advisory CA-2000-11 - MIT Kerberos vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. Several new buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in Kerberos 4, Kerberos 5 with v4 support, KerbNet, and Cygnus Kerberos. Due to the use of static buffers, these vulnerabilities do not allow remote execution of arbitrary code.
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Freebsd cdrecord local root exploit - Tested against FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE.
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Linux Security Week June 12 - In this issue: A very serious Linux kernel security bug was recently discovered that allows local users to gain root access, SuSE 6.x: qpop vulnerability, Conectiva: gpm Remote buffer overflow, BRU: local root exploit vulnerability, Solar Designer's OpenWall Kernel Patch, BSD Based Operating Systems: IPCS, RedHat 6.x: kdelibs vulnerability, Debian: mailx local exploit, Linux 101: Basic network security, Bastille Linux: A Walkthrough, OpenSSH 2.2.1 Released, and more.
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