Windows Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Explorer improperly handles executable files and shares during rename operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of another user. Users not running as administrators would ...

EbidSettingChecker.exe Untrusted Search Path Vulnerability

EbidSettingChecker.exe is an electronic product testing tool from MEXT Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. An untrustworthy search path vulnerability exists in EbidSettingChecker.exe version 1.0.0.0. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain privilege...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Installer of Electronic tendering and bid opening system available prior to June 12, 2017 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted executable file in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2017-2208

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Installer of Electronic tendering and bid opening system available prior to June 12, 2017 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted executable file in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2017-2208

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Installer of Electronic tendering and bid opening system available prior to June 12, 2017 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted executable file in an unspecified directory...

MGASA-2017-0201 Updated libffi packages fix security vulnerability

libffi, a library used to call code written in one language from code written in a different language, was enforcing an executable stack on the i386 architecture. While this might not be considered a vulnerability by itself, this could be leveraged when exploiting other vulnerabilities, such as t...

Threat Actors Target Chinese Language News Sites

A California-based news website covering China, called China Digital Times, was targeted in a spying campaign that involved phishing lures and the use of the NetWire remote access Trojan. The attacks began in February 2017 and were part of a wider campaign of phishing, reconnaissance and malware...

EternalPetya and the lost Salsa20 key

We have recently been facing a huge outbreak of a new Petya-like malware armed with an infector similar to WannaCry. The research is still in progress, and the full report will be published soon. In this post, we will focus on some new important aspects of the current malware. The low-level attac...

kernel: Incorrectly mapped contents of PIE executable

The Linux Kernel running on AMD64 systems will sometimes map the contents of PIE executable, the heap or ld.so to where the stack is mapped allowing attackers to more easily manipulate the stack. Linux Kernel version 4.11.5 is affected...

kernel: Incorrectly mapped contents of PIE executable

The Linux Kernel running on AMD64 systems will sometimes map the contents of PIE executable, the heap or ld.so to where the stack is mapped allowing attackers to more easily manipulate the stack. Linux Kernel version 4.11.5 is affected...

CVE-2017-6325

The Symantec Messaging Gateway can encounter a file inclusion vulnerability, which is a type of vulnerability that is most commonly found to affect web applications that rely on a scripting run time. This issue is caused when an application builds a path to executable code using an...

Flatpak Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Flatpak is a system for building and installing Linux desktop applications. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in versions of Flatpak prior to 0.8.7. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to run the setuid executable...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the...

CVE-2017-9780

In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the...

CVE-2017-9780

In Flatpak before 0.8.7, a third-party app repository could include malicious apps that contain files with inappropriate permissions, for example setuid or world-writable. The files are deployed with those permissions, which would let a local attacker run the setuid executable or write to the...

[SECURITY] [DLA 997-1] libffi security update

Package : libffi Version : 3.0.10-3+deb7u1 CVE ID : CVE-2017-1000376 libffi requests an executable stack allowing attackers to more easily trigger arbitrary code execution by overwriting the stack. Please note that libffi is used by a number of other libraries. For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these proble...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9778

GNU Debugger GDB 8.0 and earlier fails to detect a negative length field in a DWARF section. A malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can cause GDB to repeatedly allocate memory until a process limit is reached. This can, for example, impede efforts to analyze malware with GDB...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9778

GNU Debugger GDB 8.0 and earlier fails to detect a negative length field in a DWARF section. A malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can cause GDB to repeatedly allocate memory until a process limit is reached. This can, for example, impede efforts to analyze malware with GDB...

kernel: Incorrectly mapped contents of PIE executable

The Linux Kernel running on AMD64 systems will sometimes map the contents of PIE executable, the heap or ld.so to where the stack is mapped allowing attackers to more easily manipulate the stack. Linux Kernel version 4.11.5 is affected...

kernel: Incorrectly mapped contents of PIE executable

The Linux Kernel running on AMD64 systems will sometimes map the contents of PIE executable, the heap or ld.so to where the stack is mapped allowing attackers to more easily manipulate the stack. Linux Kernel version 4.11.5 is affected...