Update Protection against IBM Lotus Domino Web Access ActiveX Controls Buffer Overflow

A vulnerability has been reported in IBM Lotus Domino, a Web browser-based client platform that provides functionality similar to that of IBM Lotus Notes. The vulnerability is due to a boundary error while handling malformed data passed to the iNotes Web Access ActiveX controls. A remote attacker...

Social Engineering Attacks Prove Failure of User Education

BOSTON — A prominent security consultant is urging a rethink of the way businesses handle user education and awareness, warning that the way attackers have latched on to social engineering techniques makes it difficult to cope with hacker attacks. During a presentation at the SOURCE conference...

Top 20 'Critical Controls' from SANS Institute

The SANS Institute has released critical security controls for cyber defense agreed to by a consortium of agencies including: “NSA, US Cert, DoD, DoD JTF-GNO, the Department of Energy Nuclear Laboratories, Department of State, DoD Cyber Crime Center plus the top commercial forensics experts and p...

IBM Lotus Domino Web Access ActiveX Controls Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-4474)

IBM Lotus Domino Web Access is a Web browser-based client platform that provides functionality similar to that of IBM Lotus Notes. With Lotus Domino Web Access, the user can send encrypted rich text e-mails, schedule meetings, manage tasks, collaborate with colleagues and so on. There exists a...

Security Programs Focusing Too Much on Compliance, Study Finds

Enterprises are spending huge amounts of money on compliance programs related to PCI-DSS, HIPAA and other regulations, but those funds may be misdirected in light of the priorities of most information security programs, a new study has found. A paper by Forrester Research, commissioned by Microso...

CVE-2010-1224

main/acl.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.6.0.x before 1.6.0.25, 1.6.1.x before 1.6.1.17, and 1.6.2.x before 1.6.2.5 does not properly enforce remote host access controls when CIDR notation "/0" is used in permit= and deny= configuration rules, which causes an improper arithmetic shift and might allow...

XSLT can be used to retrieve random contents of unrelated documents

XSLT is normally subject to strict controls, preventing documents from separate Web sites from reading the contents of other sites. Certain XSLT constructs can cause Opera to retrieve the wrong contents for the resulting document. These contents will appear randomly from the cached versions of an...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Unsafe Scripting Misconfiguration

This exploit takes advantage of the "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked safe for scripting" setting within Internet Explorer. When this option is set, IE allows access to the WScript.Shell ActiveX control, which allows javascript to interact with the file system and run commands...

Ubuntu Update for openoffice.org vulnerabilities USN-903-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-903-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN9031.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for openoffice.org vulnerabilities USN-903-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

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...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : openoffice.org vulnerabilities (USN-903-1)

It was discovered that the XML HMAC signature system did not correctly check certain lengths. If an attacker sent a truncated HMAC, it could bypass authentication, leading to potential privilege escalation. CVE-2009-0217 Sebastian Apelt and Frank Reissner discovered that OpenOffice did not...

Internet Explorer Install Engine Buffer Overflow (CVE-2004-0216)

Microsoft Internet Explorer is a popular web browser bundled with the Microsoft Windows operating system. The browser is capable of communicating with HTTP and HTTPS compliant servers. The browser also has the capability to launch locally-installed libraries, or ActiveX controls, embedded in web...

MS10-008: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (978262)

The Microsoft Data Analyzer ActiveX control has a remote code execution vulnerability. The system may also have one or more vulnerable third-party ActiveX controls installed. A remote attacker could exploit these issues by tricking a user into requesting a maliciously crafted web page, resulting ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML object memory corruption vulnerability

Overview An invalid pointer reference within Microsoft Internet Explorer may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a memory corruption vulnerability, which can result in an invalid pointer being accessed after an object is incorrectly initialized or...

httpd: mod_proxy_ftp FTP command injection via Authorization HTTP header

The modproxyftp module in the Apache HTTP Server allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and send arbitrary commands to an FTP server via vectors related to the embedding of these commands in the Authorization HTTP header, as demonstrated by a certain module in VulnDisco Pa...

Novell iPrint Client ActiveX Control Multiple Buffer Overflows (CVE-2008-2431)

Novell iPrint Client is an application that allows users to install and manage printers, or submit print job from a web browser. Novell iPrint Client is bundled with a set of ActiveX controls that implement various functions. There exist multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Novell iPrint...

Special ActiveX repurposing attacks tips and techniques-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Copyright c 2 0 0 9 Czy Invicta Hack01@Live! cn All rights reserved. == 0x00 Foreword In this article, I am not against ActiveX controls the basic attack scenarios will be discussed. I'm here to be discussed is the use of a lot of interesting tricks and techniques to the development and utilizati...

Internet Explorer COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption (CVE-2006-4495)

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows HTML documents to embed ActiveX controls for the authoring of dynamic web content. ActiveX controls are based on Component Object Model COM technology. The invocation of an ActiveX control is performed by Internet Explorer by internally instantiating an object. ...

EasyMail SMTP ActiveX Control AddAttachment buffer overflow

Added: 12/10/2009 BID: 36440 OSVDB: 59939 Background QuikSoft EasyMail Objects is a set of ActiveX controls which provide e-mail functionality. QuikSoft EasyMail Objects is included with Oracle Document Capture among other products. Problem A stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the...

Q&A: Bob Maley on Designing and Implementing a State-wide Security Program

Dennis Fisher: Welcome to the Digital Underground podcast. This is the first episode in what’s going to be a series of podcasts with CSOs from states around the country. We’re going to be discussing the unique challenges of running an InfoSec program in the public sector and what lessons enterpri...