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Microsoft Windows Kernel 'Win32k.sys' CVE-2012-2530 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability that occurs in the Windows kernel due to a use-after-free error. A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges. Successful exploits will result in the complete...
Researcher: Fix for UPEK Fingerprint Reader Encryption Woes Falls Short
A researcher said a fix released by Authentec on Sept. 18 falls short of repairing a serious vulnerability in the company’s UPEK Protector Suite fingerprint reader software used as an authenticator on many new consumer and business laptops. Researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson this week...
Deeply Flawed Apple-Owned Fingerprint Reader Software a Tough Fix
Now that word is out on a serious password bug in the ubiquitous UPEK Protector Suite fingerprint readers found in most new laptops today, Apple-owned Authentec surely will be able to fix the issue on the double. Not so fast, says one of the researchers looking at the problem. “It’s a system that...
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: spice-0.11.3-1.fc18
The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments SPICE is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine...
CVE-2012-4245
The scriptfu network server in GIMP 2.6 does not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the python-fu-eval command...
Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64
CVE-2005-4881 kernel: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks CVE-2009-3228 kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak This update fixes the following security issues : - multiple, missing initialization flaws were found in the Linux kernel. Padding data in several core network structures was no...
Microsoft Windows CVE-2012-1890 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Technologies Affected...
Microsoft Office for Mac Improper Folder Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Office for Mac is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges, resulting in a complete compromise of the affected computer. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is vulnerable...
[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: python-virtualenvwrapper-3.2-3.fc17
virtualenvwrapper is a set of extensions to Ian Bicking's virtualenv tool. The extensions include wrappers for creating and deleting virtual environments and otherwise managing your development workflow, making it easier to work on more than one project at a time without introducing conflicts in...
Code injection
app/config/core.php in baserCMS 1.6.15 and earlier does not properly handle installations in shared-hosting environments, which allows remote attackers to hijack sessions by leveraging administrative access to a different domain...
CVE-2012-1248
app/config/core.php in baserCMS 1.6.15 and earlier does not properly handle installations in shared-hosting environments, which allows remote attackers to hijack sessions by leveraging administrative access to a different domain...
Microsoft Windows CVE-2012-0180 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Technologies Affected...
Microsoft Windows CVE-2012-1848 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Technologies Affected...
Developing and Sharing Tools for Professional Hackers
Professional hackers or security testers tend to write a lot of code. We write exploit code, fuzzers, code to handle esoteric protocols and data structures, unpackers, disassemblers, reversers, parsers, and so much more. We write this code because often what we’re doing is so specific that is...
Fedora Update for python-virtualenv FEDORA-2011-17289
Check for the Version of python-virtualenv OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for python-virtualenv FEDORA-2011-17289 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...
Microsoft Visual Studio Add-In Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Visual Studio is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Successful exploits will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Technologies Affected Microsoft Visu...
Apache 2.4 Comes Out, Major update after 6 years
Apache 2.4 Comes Out, Major update after 6 years The Apache Software Foundation officially released the Apache 2.4 today as the first major update to this leading open-source web-server in more than a half-decade. Apache 2.4 is slated to deliver superior performance to its 2.2 predecessor and...
Microsoft Windows CSRSS CVE-2012-0005 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Technologies Affected...
Fedora Update for python-virtualenv FEDORA-2011-17341
Check for the Version of python-virtualenv OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for python-virtualenv FEDORA-2011-17341 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...
[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: python-virtualenv-1.7-1.fc15
virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. virtualenv is a successor to workingenv, and an extension of virtual-python. It is written by Ian Bicking, and sponsored by the Open Planning Project. It is licensed under an MIT-style permissive license...