VLC Media PlayerKodiPopcornTime Red Chimera 2.2.5 - Memory Corruption (PoC)

VLC Media PlayerKodiPopcornTime Red Chimera 2.2.5 - Memory Corruption PoC """ VLC Media Player/Kodi/PopcornTime 'Red Chimera' 2.2.5 Memory Corruption PoC Author: SivertPL [email protected] CVE: CVE-2017-8311 Infamous VLC/Kodi/PopcornTime subtitle attack in libsubtitleplugin.dll. This is the...

VLC Media Player/Kodi/PopcornTime 'Red Chimera' < 2.2.5 - Memory Corruption (PoC)

""" VLC Media Player/Kodi/PopcornTime 'Red Chimera' 2.2.5 Memory Corruption PoC Author: SivertPL [email protected] CVE: CVE-2017-8311 Infamous VLC/Kodi/PopcornTime subtitle attack in libsubtitleplugin.dll. This is the Proof of Concept of the reverse engineered heap corruption vulnerability...

AMD processors affected by vulnerabilities: Ryzenfall, Fallout, Chimera and Masterkey

A collection of AMD vulnerabilities known as "Ryzenfall, Fallout, Chimera, Masterkey" has been released. Attackers in possession of these vulnerabilities would receive additional capabilities, like persistence by malware injection, stealth, network credential theft and more. It affects AMD...

CVE-2018-8934

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in firmware, aka CHIMERA-FW...

CVE-2018-8935

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in the ASIC, aka CHIMERA-HW...

CVE-2018-8934

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in firmware, aka CHIMERA-FW...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in the ASIC, aka CHIMERA-HW...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in firmware, aka CHIMERA-FW...

CVE-2018-8935

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in the ASIC, aka CHIMERA-HW...

CVE-2018-8934

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in firmware, aka CHIMERA-FW...

CVE-2018-8935

The CVE-2018-8935 entry concerns the Promontory chipset used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, where an ASIC backdoor (CHIMERA-HW) is described. The connected documents reiterate the root cause as a backdoor in the ASIC of the Promontory chipset, affecting Ryzen/Ryzen Pro systems. The materia...

CVE-2018-8935

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in the ASIC, aka CHIMERA-HW...

CVE-2018-8934

CVE-2018-8934 covers a backdoor in the firmware of the Promontory chipset used in AMD Ryzen/Ryzen Pro platforms (aka CHIMERA-FW). The issue stems from a firmware backdoor in Promontory, with documented risk perceptions in multiple sources, and a CVSS3 score indicating CRITICAL impact across confi...

AMD Acknowledges Newly Disclosed Flaws In Its Processors — Patches Coming Soon

AMD has finally acknowledged 13 critical vulnerabilities, and exploitable backdoors in its Ryzen and EPYC processors disclosed earlier this month by Israel-based CTS Labs and promised to roll out firmware patches for millions of affected devices 'in the coming weeks.' According to CTS-Labs...

AMD Acknowledges Vulnerabilities, Will Roll Out Patches In Coming Week

AMD on Tuesday acknowledged several vulnerabilities that had been previously reported in its Ryzen and EPYC chips, and said that it would roll out firmware patches for those flaws in the coming weeks. The response comes a week after Israel-based CTS-Labs said that it has discovered 13 critical...

AMD Investigating Reports of 13 Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Ryzen, EPYC Chips

Researchers on Tuesday said they found several critical security vulnerabilities in various AMD chips, allegedly opening them up to attackers who want to steal sensitive data and install malware on AMD servers, workstations and laptops. Israel-based CTS-Labs said that it has discovered 13 critica...

CrySis Ransomware Master Decryption Keys Released

The threat posed by a ransomware family known as CrySis was diminished considerably on Sunday when the master decryption keys were released to the public. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said they have already folded the keys into the company’s Rakhni decryptor and victims of CrySis versions 2 and 3...

Linux Webserver Folders Deleted in Fairware Attacks

Linux server admins are reporting attacks resulting in the disappearance of the server’s web folder and websites being down indefinitely. Posts to the forums on the BleepingComputer website corroborate a number of such attacks, most likely intrusions powered by brute-force attacks against SSH,...

Petya Sabotages Rival Ransomware Chimera, Leaks 3,500 Decryption Keys

There is no honor among thieves, as the saying goes, and that includes ransomware crooks. In an apparent move to sabotage a ransomware competitor, the authors of the Mischa and Petya ransomware-as-a-service leaked 3,500 decryption keys for its competitor Chimera ransomware. The move appears to be...

Chimera Ransomware Operation Shut Down

It seems that as quickly as the Chimera ransomware surfaced, the operation has been shut down. Researchers at Bleeping Computer said Tuesday that the malware was no longer active. A number of security companies were publishing alerts about this latest strain of crypto-ransomware, which was...