SUSE CVE-2011-1344

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 5.0.5; iOS before 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPod, and iPad; iOS before 4.2.7 for iPhone 4 CDMA; and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by adding children to a WBR tag and then removing the tag,...

Zerodium Offers $1.5 Million Bounty For iOS Zero-Day Exploits

Well, there's some good news for Hackers and Bug hunters, though a terrible news for Apple! Exploit vendor Zerodium has tripled its bug bounty for an Apple's iOS 10 zero-day exploit, offering a maximum payout of $US1.5 Million. Yes, $1,500,000.00 Reward. That's more than seven times what Apple is...

VUPEN Launches New Zero-Day Acquisition Firm Zerodium

UPDATE–In the weeks since the Hacking Team breach, the spotlight has shone squarely on the small and often shadowy companies that are in the business of buying and selling exploits and vulnerabilities. One such company, Netragard, this week decided to get out of that business after its dealings...

VUPEN Discloses Details of Patched Firefox Pwn2Own Zero-Days

Contestants at this year’s Pwn2Own contest made no bones about it: they were going after browsers and as it turned out, Firefox had the biggest target on its back. Mozilla’s popular browser was popped four times during the Canadian hacker festival accounting for a quarter of the $800,000-plus in...

Vupen Cashes in Four Times at Pwn2Own 2014

VANCOUVER – It’s become a familiar walk for Chaouki Bekrar. Year after year at the Pwn2Own contest, the controversial Vupen founder is scurried from a small room in the basement of the Sheraton hotel to a suite several floors above. It’s a short journey from where a string of zero-day exploits ar...

Chaouki Bekrar: The Man Behind the Bugs

VANCOUVER–Say what you will about Chaouki Bekrar, but the man is nothing if not frank. Bekrar, who is the public face of the VUPEN team that has been toying with the Pwn2Own contest this week, has become a lightning rod in the debate over exploit sales, and from all outward appearances, he couldn...

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Shockwave DIRAPI LCTX Chunck Memory Corruption Vulnerability (APSB11-01)

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Shockwave DIRAPI Lctx Chunck Memory Corruption Vulnerability APSB11-01 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops have installed Adobe Shockwave Player. These people now have access to...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Word Document Array Indexing Vulnerability (CVE-2010-2750)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Word Document Array Indexing Vulnerability CVE-2010-2750 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- Microsoft Office Word, included in the Microsoft Office suite, is a powerful authoring program that gives the ability t...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Excel Extra PtgExtraArray Parsing Vulnerability (CVE-2010-3239)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Excel Extra PtgExtraArray Parsing Vulnerability CVE-2010-3239 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful tool you can use to create and format spreadsheets, and analyze and share...

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Shockwave 3D Two Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2010-1284)

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Shockwave 3D Two Code Execution Vulnerabilities CVE-2010-1284 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops have installed Adobe Shockwave Player. These people now have access to some of th...