HD Moore on Metasploit, Exploitation and the Art of Pen Testing

Dennis Fisher talks with HD Moore, the founder of the Metasploit Project and the chief security officer at Rapid7, about the evolution of Metasploit, the difficulty of client-side exploitation in the age of DEP and ASLR and the decision on when to publish an exploit. Podcast audio courtesy of...

Researchers Finding New Ways to Bypass Exploit Mitigations

VANCOUVER–Software makers, led by Microsoft, have spent the last few years steadily adding new memory-protection and exploit-mitigation technologies such as ASLR, DEP and SafeSEH to their products. But the state of the art in exploitation has advanced just as steadily and, as researchers showed a...

Hacker exploits IE8 on Windows 7 to Win Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER, BC — Jumping through a series of anti-exploit roadblocks, Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil pulled off an impressive CanSecWest Pwn2Own victory here, hacking into a fully patched 64-bit Windows 7 machine using a pair of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. Vreugdenhil, an independent...

Charlie Miller on Mac OS X, Pwn2Own and Writing Exploits

The following is the full transcript of a live Threatpost chat with Charlie Miller, a vulnerability researcher at Independent Security Evaluators. During this session, Miller discussed his approach to finding security flaws, his work on fuzzing applications, his plans for this year’s Pwn2Own hack...

Microsoft Virtual PC Flaw Lets Hackers Bypass Windows Defenses

An exploit writer at Core Security Technologies has discovered a serious vulnerability that exposes users of Microsoft’s Virtual PC virtualization software to malicious hacker attacks. The vulnerability, which is unpatched, essentially allows an attacker to bypass several major security mitigatio...

Green Dam - URL Processing Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

$Id: greendamurl.rb 8762 2010-03-10 05:58:01Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/...

iDefense Security Advisory 03.09.10: Microsoft Excel Sheet Object Type Confusion Vulnerability

iDefense Security Advisory 03.09.10 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Mar 09, 2010 I. BACKGROUND Excel is the spreadsheet application included with Microsoft Corp.'s Office productivity software suite. More information is available at the following website:...

As Memory Protections Advance, Exploits Stay a Step Ahead

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite years of efforts by software security teams at major vendors to harden the operating systems and browsers that are the most common targets of attackers, exploitation of new as well as older vulnerabilities is still simpler than many people might think. Microsoft, Mozilla,...

Viscom Image Viewer CP Pro 8.0/Gold 6.0 ActiveX Control

This module exploits a stack based buffer overflow in the Active control file ImageViewer2.OCX by passing an overly long argument to an insecure TifMergeMultiFiles method. Exploitation results in code execution with the privileges of the user who browsed to the exploit page. The victim will first...

Google Researcher Ships Exploit to Defeat ASLR+DEP

A prominent security researcher has released an exploit that uses a new technique to defeat ALSR + DEP on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The exploit, released by Google security researcher “SkyLined,” uses the ret-into-libc technique to bypass DEP Data Execution Prevention and launch code...

Viscom Software Movie Player Pro SDK ActiveX 6.8

Stack-based buffer overflow in the MOVIEPLAYER.MoviePlayerCtrl.1 ActiveX control in MoviePlayer.ocx 6.8.0.0 in Viscom Software Movie Player Pro SDK ActiveX 6.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long strFontName parameter to the DrawText method. The victim will first be...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2009:1438)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

MuPDF pdf_shade4.c multiple stack-based buffer overflows

Description =========== "MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C". It is used in particular by SumatraPDF which is a small open-source PDF viewer for Windows. MuPDF before commit 20091125231942 did not properly handle /Decode arrays in a shading of type 4 to 7, leading...

MuPDF 20091125231942 - pdf_shade4.c Multiple Stack Buffer Overflows

MuPDF 20091125231942 - pdfshade4.c Multiple Stack Buffer Overflows "MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C". It is used in particular by SumatraPDF which is a small open-source PDF viewer for Windows. MuPDF before commit 20091125231942 did not properly handle /Decode...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues, multiple bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel,...

Immunity Canvas: MS09_051

Name| ms09051 ---|--- CVE| CVE-2009-0555 Exploit Pack| CANVAS Description| ASFAudiomedia Parsing bug Notes| CVE Name: CVE-2009-0555 VENDOR: Microsoft MSADV: MS09-051 Repeatability: One Shot MSRC: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-051.mspx Note: This is a client-side exploit ...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : kernel (kernel-6440)

This kernel update for openSUSE 10.3 fixes some bugs and several security problems. The following security issues are fixed: CVE-2009-2692: A missing NULL pointer check in the socket sendpage function can be used by local attackers to gain root privileges. CVE-2009-2406: A kernel stack overflow...

Microsoft SRV2.SYS SMB Negotiate ProcessID Function Table Dereference

$Id$ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Microsoft...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1438)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 21st July 2010 Added links to KBase articles expanding on three...