The vulnerability of the elf_cvt_note() function in the ELF file modification and analysis utility Elfutils allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the elfcvtnote function in the Elfutils tool for modifying and analyzing binary ELF files is related to an attempt to copy negative data volumes. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a perpetrator to cause service failures...

Ponce - IDA Plugin For Symbolic Execution Just One-Click Away!

Ponce pronounced 'poN θe pon-they is an IDA Pro plugin that provides users the ability to perform taint analysis and symbolic execution over binaries in an easy and intuitive fashion. With Ponce you are one click away from getting all the power from cutting edge symbolic execution. Entirely writt...

Triton - Dynamic Binary Analysis (DBA) Framework

Triton is a dynamic binary analysis DBA framework. It provides internal components like a Dynamic Symbolic Execution DSE engine, a Taint engine, AST representations of the x86 and the x86-64 instructions set semantics, SMT simplification passes, an SMT Solver Interface and, the last but not least...

Fileless malware: part deux

In part one of this series, we focused on an introduction to the concepts fileless malware, providing examples of the problems that we in the security industry face when dealing with these types of attacks. In part two, I will be walking through a few demonstrations of fileless malware attacks th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: capstone-3.0.5-1.fc29

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: capstone-3.0.5-1.fc27

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community...

Dynamic Binary Analysis Tool: Manticore

Manticore is a prototyping tool for dynamic binary analysis, with support for symbolic execution, taint analysis, and binary instrumentation. Manticore comes with an easy-to-use command line tool that quickly generates new program “test cases” or sample inputs with symbolic execution. Each test...

CVE-2018-15885

Ovation FindMe 1.4-1083-1 is intended to support transmission of network traffic from covert video recorders but does not properly disrupt binary analysis for discovering the product's capabilities or purpose. This makes it easier for adversaries to detect the covert operation. Specifically, the...

CVE-2018-15885

Ovation FindMe 1.4-1083-1 is intended to support transmission of network traffic from covert video recorders but does not properly disrupt binary analysis for discovering the product's capabilities or purpose. This makes it easier for adversaries to detect the covert operation. Specifically, the...

CVE-2018-15885

Ovation FindMe 1.4-1083-1 is reported vulnerable due to obfuscation/packing that hinders binary analysis of its capabilities. The description states the product uses a compression technique to obscure certain libraries, relies on a TLS callback and an extra executable to enable these libraries an...

CVE-2018-15885

Ovation FindMe 1.4-1083-1 is intended to support transmission of network traffic from covert video recorders but does not properly disrupt binary analysis for discovering the product's capabilities or purpose. This makes it easier for adversaries to detect the covert operation. Specifically, the...

On "Advanced" Network Security Monitoring

My TaoSecurity News page says I taught 41 classes lasting a day or more, from 2002 to 2014. All of these involved some aspect of network security monitoring NSM. Many times students would ask me when I would create the "advanced" version of the class, usually in the course feedback. I could never...

Mobile Bootloaders From Top Manufacturers Found Vulnerable to Persistent Threats

Security researchers have discovered several severe zero-day vulnerabilities in the mobile bootloaders from at least four popular device manufacturers that could allow an attacker to gain persistent root access on the device. A team of nine security researchers from the University of California...

Pharos: A Static Binary Analysis Framework

PenTestIT RSS Feed All of us know what static binary analysis means. It means that the analysis of the binary is performed without actually executing it. Almost two years ago, an open source framework - Pharos, was created by the Carnegie Mellon SEI, CERT Division in collaboration with the Lawren...

OT Device Type Detection

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UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9743

The printinsnscore32 function in opcodes/score7-dis.c:552 in GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during "objdum...

Reverse Engineering Framework: radare2

Reverse Engineering Framework: radare2 r2 is a rewrite from scratch of radare in order to provide a set of libraries and tools to work with binary files Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable command-line hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzin...

GNU Binutils Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-06998)

GNU Binutils a.k.a. GNU Binary Utilities or binutils is a set of programming language utility programs developed by the GNU Project to work with target files in a variety of formats, with connectors, assemblers, and other tools for target files and archives. GNU Binutils suffers from a buffer...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8398

dwarf.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 during dumping of debug information from a corrupt binary. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs, such as objdump and readelf, to crash...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8392

The Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 8 because of missing a check to determine whether symbols are NULL in the bfddwarf2findnearestline function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis...