elfutils: Heap-based buffer overflow

Background Elfutils provides a library and utilities to access, modify and analyse ELF objects. Description An integer overflow, in the checksection function of dwarfbeginelf.c, in the libdw library can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a...

FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- guest 32-bit ELF symbol table load leaking host data (5555120d-ba4d-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : Along with their main kernel binary, unprivileged guests may arrange to have their Xen environment load kernel symbol tables for their use. The ELF image metadata created for this purpose has a few unused bytes when the symbol table binary is in 32-bit ELF format. These...

Open Source Malware Clusterization Toolkit: Cosa Nostra

Open Source Malware Clusterization Toolkit Cosa Nostra is an open source software clustering toolkit with a focus on malware analysis. It can create phylogenetic trees of binary malware samples that are structurally similar. It was initially released during SyScan360 Shanghai 2016. Required 3rd...

Christmas Countdown Elf Story - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Christmas Countdown Elf Story published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

CVE-2016-9384

Xen 4.7 allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive host information by loading a 32-bit ELF symbol table...

guest 32-bit ELF symbol table load leaking host data

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Along with their main kernel binary, unprivileged guests may arrange to have their Xen environment load kernel symbol tables for their use. The ELF image metadata created for this purpose has a few unused bytes when the symbol table binary is in 32-bit ELF format. These unused...

Interactive Disassembler: Plasma

Interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS. Generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax code. PLASMA is an interactive disassembler. It can generate a more readable assembly pseudo code with colored syntax. You can write scripts with the available Python api. The project is still in big...

Linux Kernel 2.6.22 3.9 (x86x64) - Dirty COW procselfmem Race Condition Privilege Escalation (SUID Method)

Linux Kernel 2.6.22 3.9 x86x64 - Dirty COW procselfmem Race Condition Privilege Escalation SUID Method / EDB-Note: After getting a shell, doing "echo 0 /proc/sys/vm/dirtywritebackcentisecs" may make the system more stable. uncomment correct payload first x86 or x64! $ gcc cowroot.c -o cowroot...

Debian DLA-669-1 : dwarfutils security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in dwarfutils, a tool and library for reading/consuming and writing/producing DWARF debugging information. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues : CVE-2015-8538 A specially crafted ELF file can cause a segmentation...

Hopper Disassembler ELF Section Header Size Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable out of bounds write vulnerability exists in the parsing of ELF Section Headers of Hopper App. A specially crafted ELF file can cause attacker controlled pointer arithmetic resulting in a partially controlled out of bounds write. An attacker can craft an ELF file with...

The vulnerability of the PHP interpreter allows a remote attacker to trigger a service failure or cause other effects on the system.

The vulnerability of the PHP interpreter in the file module fileinfo for the Fileinfo component lies in the incomplete reading of available data during a pread call. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause service failures by accessing uninitialized memory, or to otherwise affec...

Exim 4 (Debian 8 / Ubuntu 16.04) - Spool Privilege Escalation

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello List, This is just a minor issue in Exim, no replies so far, so publication should be OK. Introduction: ============ Exim4 in some variants is started as root but switches to uid/gid...

Exim 4 (Debian 8 Ubuntu 16.04) - Spool Privilege Escalation

Exim 4 Debian 8 Ubuntu 16.04 - Spool Privilege Escalation / -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello List, This is just a minor issue in Exim, no replies so far, so publication should be OK. Introduction: ============ Exim4 in some variants is started as root but switches to uid/gid...

CVE-2016-5027

dwarfform.c in libdwarf 20160115 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted elf file...

libdwarf 'WRITE_UNALIGNED()' Function Denial of Service Vulnerability

libdwarf is a set of tools for reading and writing DWARF2 debugging information. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'WRITEUNALIGNED' function of libdwarf. The vulnerability can be exploited to cause a denial of service free copy, heap buffer overflow, and write out of bounds with a...

libdwarf dwarf_elf_access.c File Denial of Service Vulnerability

libdwarf is a set of tools for reading and writing DWARF2 debugging information. A security vulnerability exists in the libdwarfelfaccess.c file of libdwarf. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service OOB write...

CentOS 6 : file (CESA-2016:0760)

An update for file is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

file, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:0760 An update for file is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

file security, bug fix, and enhancement update

5.04-30 - fix CVE-2014-3538 unrestricted regular expression matching 5.04-29 - fix 1284826 - try to read ELF header to detect corrupted one 5.04-28 - fix 1263987 - fix bugs found by coverity in the patch 5.04-27 - fix CVE-2014-3587 incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 - fix CVE-2014-3710 out-of-bound...

RHEL 6 : file (RHSA-2016:0760)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0760 advisory. The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data the file contains. It can identify many different file...