PT-2018-11815 · Google +2 · Gperftools +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Google gperftools version 2.7 Description: The issue is related to a memory leak in malloc extension.cc, specifically involving MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. However, the software maintainer disputes this, stating it is a...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0! This release comes with...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0! This release comes with Java 9...

DGA-Detection - DGA Domain Detection using Bigram Frequency Analysis

More and more malware is being created with advanced blocking circumvention techniques. One of the most prevalent techniques being used is the use of Domain Generation Algorithms which periodically generates a set of Domains to contact a C&C server. The majority of these DGA domains generate rand...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0! What I like about this release...

OracleVM 3.2 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0106)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops J. Bruce Fields Orabug: 25986995 CVE-2017-7895 - ocfs2/o2net: o2netlistendataready should do nothing if socket state is not TCPLISTEN Tariq Saeed...

Webroot 'mistakenly' flags Windows as Malware and Facebook as Phishing site

Popular antivirus service Webroot mistakenly flagged core Windows system files as malicious and even started temporarily removing some of the legit files, trashing user computers around the world. The havoc caused after the company released a bad update on April 24, which was pulled after...

Opera installer mistakenly marked as malicious

Security Opera installer mistakenly marked as malicious Share February 22nd, 2017 During the past few days some of our users have contacted us raising the concern that the Qihoo 360 Total Security anti-virus software has been labelling the Opera installer executable for Windows as some form of...

Does Reliable Real Time Detection Demand Prevention?

Chris Sanders started a poll on Twitter asking "Would you rather get a real-time alert with partial context immediately, or a full context alert delayed by 30 mins?" I answered by saying I would prefer full context delayed by 30 minutes. I also replied with the text at left, from my first book Th...

itBit Exchange: Open Redirect in https://exchange.itbit.com - False Positive

Hi there Vulnerability Title: Open Redirect in https://exchange.itbit.com Reproduction Steps: example link HTTP Response: HTTP/1.1 303 See Other .................................. Location: /google.com/%2f../ Regards, SMIT...

Generic OS X Malware Detection Method Explained

When it comes to detecting OS X malware, the future may not be rooted in machine learning algorithms, but patterns and heatmap visualization, a researcher posits. In an academic paper published by Virus Bulletin on Monday, Vincent Van Mieghem, a former student at the Delft University of Technolog...

Squid 2.x / 3.x < 3.5.17 / 4.x < 4.0.9 cachemgr.cgi RCE

According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is 2.x or 3.x prior to 3.5.17, or 4.x prior to 4.0.9. It is, therefore, affected by a buffer overflow condition in the cachemgr.cgi tool due to improper validation of user-supplied input when processing the length of content...

Robo Gallery <= 2.0.14 - Remote Code Execution

This is potentially a False Positive. Needs further investigation...

IBM DB2 9.7 < Fix Pack 10 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its version, the installation of IBM DB2 9.7 running on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An input-validation error exists related to handling the 'ALTER MODULE' statement that allows buffer overflows. CVE-2014-3094 - An error exists related to handling...

Squid 3.x < 3.3.13 / 3.4.7 Request Processing DoS

According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is 3.x prior to 3.3.13 or 3.4.7. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability. The flaw exists due to user-supplied input not being properly validated in request parsing. This allows a remote attacker to...

Netsparker v3.5.5 - Web Application Security Scanner

Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner can find and report web application vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting XSS and security issues on all web applications and websites regardless of the platform and the technology they are built on. Netsparker is very easy to u...

Netsparker v3.5 - Web Application Security Scanner

Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner can find and report web application vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting XSS and security issues on all web applications and websites regardless of the platform and the technology they are built on. Netsparker is very easy to u...

Updated chkrootkit packages fix CVE-2014-0476 and a false positive

Updated chkrootkit package fixes security vulnerability: The chkrootkit script contains a flaw that allows a local attacker to create an executable in /tmp that will be run by the user running chkrootkit usually root, allowing the attacker to escalate privileges CVE-2014-0476. The Mageia 3 update...

MGASA-2014-0249 Updated chkrootkit packages fix CVE-2014-0476 and a false positive

Updated chkrootkit package fixes security vulnerability: The chkrootkit script contains a flaw that allows a local attacker to create an executable in /tmp that will be run by the user running chkrootkit usually root, allowing the attacker to escalate privileges CVE-2014-0476. The Mageia 3 update...