UEFI EDK2 Capsule Update vulnerabilities

Overview The EDK2 UEFI reference implementation contains multiple vulnerabilities in the Capsule Update mechanism. Description The open source EDK2 project provides a reference implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI. Researchers at The MITRE Corporation have discovered...

samba: remote code execution in nmbd

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in Samba's NetBIOS message block daemon nmbd. An attacker on the local network could use this flaw to send specially crafted packets that, when processed by nmbd, could possibly lead to arbitrary code execution with root privileges...

Multiple Vendor BIOS Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence Weakness (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on the operating system running o...

Multiple Vendor BIOS Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence Weakness (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on the operating system running o...

Dell IT Assistant detectIESettingsForITA.ocx ActiveX Control

No description provided by source. !-- Dell IT Assistant detectIESettingsForITA.ocx ActiveX Control readRegVal Remote Registry Dump Vulnerability download uri: ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/OM-ITAssistant-Dell-Web-WIN-6.5.0-2247A01.21.exe ActiveX settings: CLSID: 6286EF1A-B56E-48EF-90C3-743410657F...

PCSX2 0.9.7 beta Binary Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: PCSX2 v0.9.7 Crash Date: 08/11/2010 Author: 41.w4r10r Version: 0.9.7 Tested on : Windows XP SP2 Eng Software Link: http://pcsx2.net/downloads.php?p=publicbeta !/usr/bin/python PCSX2 is PS2 emulator to play PS2 Games on PC. This emulator is one of...

Windows NT - User Mode to Ring 0 Escalation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Microsoft Windows NT GP Trap Handler Allows Users to Switch Kernel Stack ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CVE-2010-0232 In order to support BIOS service routines in legacy 16bit applications, the Windows NT Kernel support...

Intel Multiple Products Crafted UEFI Variable Handling Security Bypass

The version of the Intel BIOS on the remote device is affected by an unspecified security bypass vulnerability related to a flaw in the handling of certain Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI variables. A knowledgeable remote malicious attacker may be able to exploit this issue to bypass...

Gap Widens Between Attackers, BIOS Forensics, Research

Vendors have made important strides in locking down operating systems, patching memory-related vulnerabilities and other bugs that could lead to remote code execution or give hackers a stealthy presence on a machine. As the hurdles get higher for the bad guys, the better ones will certainly look...

Browser Bugs, BIOS and Brokers dominate CanSecWest, Pwn2Own

Browsers, brokers and BIOS: you could safely call that triumvirate the past, present and future of security, but you’d be wrong. If last week’s CanSecWest conference, and Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests are indeed a point-in-time snapshot of the technical side of information security, then after last...

[WakeMeOnLan] Turn on computers on your network with Wake-on-LAN packet

This utility allows you to easily turn on one or more computers remotely by sending Wake-on-LAN WOL packet to the remote computers. When your computers are turned on, WakeMeOnLan allows you to scan your network, and collect the MAC addresses of all your computers, and save the computers list into...

U.S. Oil, Gas Targeted by Espionage Malware Campaign

American gas and oil companies have been targeted by a hacking group with ties to the Russian Federation for close to 18 months, a new research report indicates. The attackers have leveraged watering hole attacks to infect users inside the critical infrastructure organizations to spread a remote...

Jacob Appelbaum 2013 30c3 keynote on NSA Surveillance

Cryptographer, developer and activist Jacob Appelbaum took to the pages of Germany’s Der Spiegel and the keynote dais of the 30th Chaos Communication Congress this weekend to deliver a damning expose of the catalog of backdoors, monitoring programs and products that potentially have and could be...

BIOS Malware that can remotely destroy any computer, NSA claimed

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Intel Xeon Baseboard Management Component (BMC) Privilege Escalation (INTEL-SA-00026)

The version of the Intel BIOS on the remote device indicates that the Baseboard Management Component BMC firmware it is running is affected by an unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability. A knowledgeable remote malicious attacker could leverage this issue to deny service to legitimate users...

CVE-2013-3582

Buffer overflow in Dell BIOS on Dell Latitude D, E, XT2, and Z600 devices, and Dell Precision M devices, allows local users to bypass intended BIOS signing requirements and install arbitrary BIOS images by leveraging administrative privileges and providing a crafted rbupacket.pktNum value in...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in Dell BIOS on Dell Latitude D, E, XT2, and Z600 devices, and Dell Precision M devices, allows local users to bypass intended BIOS signing requirements and install arbitrary BIOS images by leveraging administrative privileges and providing a crafted rbupacket.pktNum value in...

CVE-2013-3582

Buffer overflow in Dell BIOS on Dell Latitude D, E, XT2, and Z600 devices, and Dell Precision M devices, allows local users to bypass intended BIOS signing requirements and install arbitrary BIOS images by leveraging administrative privileges and providing a crafted rbupacket.pktNum value in...

CVE-2013-3582

CVE-2013-3582 describes a buffer overflow in Dell BIOS updates that affects Latitude D530/D531/D630/D631/D830, E5400/E5500/E4200/E4300/E6400/E6400 ATG/XFR, XT2, Z600, and Precision M2300/M4300/M6300/M6400/M6500/M2400/M4400; the flaw is in rbu_packet.pktNum and rbu_packet.pktSize handling, allowin...

Dell BIOS in some Latitude laptops and Precision Mobile Workstations vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview Dell BIOS in some older Latitude laptops and Precision Mobile Workstations are vulnerable to buffer overflows CWE-119, which can bypass the signed BIOS enforcement standard. Description CWE-119:Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Dell BIOS in some olde...