MS13-071 Microsoft Windows Theme File Handling Code Execution

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability mainly affecting Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2003. The vulnerability exists in the handling of the Screen Saver path, in the boot section. An arbitrary path can be used as screen saver, including a remote SMB resource, which allows for remote...

Mozilla 24 Resolves 17 Security Vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 24 yesterday, issuing 17 security patches for the browser. Seven of the bulletins received the highest, critical impact rating, four are considered high impact advisories, the second most severe rating, and the remaining six are of moderate impact. Mozilla’...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Malicious Attachment Email Messages on September 16, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30835 First Published: 2013 September 17 15:43 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claim to contain an attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Document Attachment Email Messages on September 14, 2013.

Medium Alert ID: 30799 First Published: 2013 September 16 14:39 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to a spam email message that claims to contain a document attachment for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient ...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Email Messages with Malicious Attachments on September 12, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30763 First Published: 2013 September 12 15:48 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that contain a malicious attachment. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachment and...

[Hidden File Finder v2.5] Tool to Find and Unhide/Remove all the Hidden Files

Hidden File Finder is the free software to quickly scan and discover all the Hidden files on your Windows system. It performs swift multi threaded scan of all the folders parallely and quickly uncovers all the hidden files. It automatically detects the Hidden Executable Files EXE, DLL, COM etc an...

Unrestricted file upload

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in admin/uploadImage.html in SearchBlox before 7.5 build 1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading an executable file with the image/jpeg content type, and then accessing this file via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by access to ...

Adobe Photo Loader Malware Posts Craigslist Spam

An attacker is going to a lot of trouble to post spam messages to Craigslist. Researchers at Solera Networks have come across an attack where malware is using compromised machines to post poorly worded ads for an Android application marketed at parents for the purposes of monitoring the activitie...

Java User Agent Executable Download

Some executable files can be downloaded to computer systems Java user agent. There are cases in which certain traffic, although not intended for malicious use, is very unsafe, since it may transfer shellcode which is undetectable by IPS...

VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3)

VMWare Workstation up to and including 9.0.2 build-1031769 and Player have a setuid executable called vmware-mount that invokes lsbrelease in the PATH with popen3. Since PATH is user-controlled, and the default system shell on Debian-derived distributions does not drop privs, we can put an...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Money Transfer Notification Email Messages on August 21, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30479 First Published: 2013 August 21 13:18 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a money transfer notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...

Windows Gather Prefetch File Information

This module gathers prefetch file information from WinXP, Win2k3 and Win7 systems and current values of related registry keys. From each prefetch file we'll collect filetime converted to utc of the last execution, file path hash, run count, filename and the execution path. This module requires...

[The Backdoor Factory] Backdoors win32 PE files

Backdoors win32 PE files, to continue normal file execution if the shellcode supports it, by patching the exe/dll directly. Some executables have built in protections, as such this will not work on all PE files. It is advisable that you test target PE files before deploying them to clients or usi...

Sirefef Malware Found Using Unicode Right-to-Left Override Technique

Old malware tricks never really die, they just get recycled and passed down to the next generation of attackers. The latest technique to get run through the wayback machine is the use of the right-to-left override character in Unicode, a tactic that enables malware authors to hide the real name o...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake UPS Parcel Notification Email Messages on August 15, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30435 First Published: 2013 August 15 17:56 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a UPS parcel notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient t...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libtiff (MDVSA-2013:208)

Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerabilities : A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way tiff2pdf of libtiff performed write of TIFF image content into particular PDF document file, in the tpprocessjpegstrip function. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted TIFF...

Microsoft Windows - HWND_BROADCAST Low to Medium Integrity Privilege Escalation (MS13-005) (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' require 'rex' require 'msf/core/exploit/exe' class...

SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : java-1_6_0-ibm (SAT Patch Numbers 8105 / 8107)

IBM Java 1.6.0 has been updated to SR14 to fix bugs and security issues. Please see also http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/ Also the following bugs have been fixed : - add Europe/Busingen to tzmappings. bnc817062 - mark files in jre/bin and bin/ as executable bnc823034 %NASLMINLEV...

Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities - August12 (Mac OS X)

This host is installed with Mozilla Thunderbird and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbmozillathunderbirdmultvulnaug12macosx.nasl 6074 2017-05-05 09:03:14Z teissa $ Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities - August12 Mac OS X Authors: Arun Kallavi Copyrigh...

Oracle Database Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2013 CPU)

The remote Oracle database server is missing the July 2013 Critical Patch Update CPU and is, therefore, potentially affected by security issues in the following components : - XML Parser - Network Layer - Oracle Executable - Core RDBMS %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...