This Week In Security: The Full Disclosure Rabbit Hole Re-Opens

Had you gone to sleep in 2004 and woken up three days ago, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d only slept a few hours instead of a few years. This week saw the inglorious return of not just the full disclosure debate, but also of the heated rhetoric that usually accompanies it. Had you awoken to...

Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center RCE Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code execution RCE vulnerability. This VT has been deprecated and replaced by the VT SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Googler Drops Windows Zero-Day, Microsoft Unhappy

Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy has set the cat among the “responsible disclosure” pigeons with the release of technical details of a zero-day vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center without giving Microsoft adequate time to prepare a patch. The vulnerabilit...

MS XP, Server 2003 Flaw Allows Remote PC Control

A researcher has discovered a flaw residing in the Windows Help and Support Center, a feature that provides users with online technical support. Malicious hackers can exploit the weakness of Windows by embedding commands in web addresses that activate the feature’s remote assistance tool, which...

Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly

No description provided by source. Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help and Support Centre is the default application provided to access online documentation for Microsoft...

Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles - Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly (MS03-044)

Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles - Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly MS03-044 Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help and Support Centre is the default application...

Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles - Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly (MS03-044)

Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help and Support Centre is the default application provided to access online documentation for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft supports accessing...

Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center URI processing vulnerability

Overview The Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center application fails to properly sanitize hcp:// URIs, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands. Description Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center is the default handler for the hcp protocol on Windows...

Microsoft Help and Support Center - '/sysinfo/sysinfomain.htm' Cross-Site Scripting

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40721/info Help and Support Center is prone to a cross-site scripting weakness because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the privileged zone of the browser of an...

Microsoft Help Center XSS and Command Execution

Help and Support Center is the default application provided to access online documentation for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft supports accessing help documents directly via URLs by installing a protocol handler for the scheme "hcp". Due to an error in validation of input to hcp:// combined with a...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-039 - Important Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2028554)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-039 - Important Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege 2028554 Published: June 08, 2010 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and two privately reported...

Microsoft SharePoint Help Page Denial of Service (MS10-039; CVE-2010-1264)

Windows SharePoint Services provide a platform for collaboration applications and document management. Office SharePoint Server is an integrated suite of server capabilities built on top of Windows SharePoint Services. A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft SharePoint...

CVE-2010-1264: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service hang via crafted requests to the Help page that cause repeated restarts of the application pool, aka "Sharepoint Help Page Denial of Service Vulnerability."...

PTC Site's Remote Command Execution / Cross Site Scripting

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ @Title: PTC Site's RCE/XSS Vulnerability @Vendor: http://www.ptcsites4sale.info & and etc...:D @Author: CrazyMember @Mail: [email protected] @SPC Thanks: XroGuE 4 r3p0r7 :P @Dork:"intext:Warning: passthru" "inurl:view=help"...

[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: kdeaccessibility-4.4.3-1.fc12.1

Included with this package are: kmag: a screen magnifier kmousetool: a program for people whom it hurts to click the mouse kmouth: program that allows people who have lost their voice ktts: text to speech support...

Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2008-003

The remote host is missing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2008-003. One or more of the following components are affected: AFP Server Apache AppKit Apple Pixlet Video ATS CFNetwork CoreFoundation CoreGraphics CoreTypes CUPS Flash Player Plug-in Help Viewer iCal International...

Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2009-002

The remote host is missing Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2009-002. One or more of the following components are affected: Apache ATS BIND CFNetwork CoreGraphics Cscope CUPS Disk Images enscript Flash Player plug-in Help Viewer iChat International Components for Unicode IPSec...

Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2008-003

The remote host is missing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2008-003. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 LSS Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2009-002

The remote host is missing Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2009-002. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 LSS Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

CVE-2010-1652

Directory traversal vulnerability in the HelpCenter module in Help Center Live HCL 2.0.6 and 2.1.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly have unspecified other impact via a .. dot dot in the file parameter to module.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third...