Tricky DoS Attack Crashes Mozilla Firefox

A newly released proof-of-concept attack using malicious JavaScript can crash or freeze Mozilla Firefox when an unsuspecting victim visits a specially crafted webpage on the browser. Researcher Sabri Haddouche, a security researcher with Wire, on Sunday released the source code for the attack,...

Credit Freezes are Free: Let the Ice Age Begin

It is now free in every U.S. state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity thieves and others from looking at private details in your consumer credit history. If you've been holding out because you're not particularly worried about ID...

Watch Out! This New Web Exploit Can Crash and Restart Your iPhone

It's 2018, and just a few lines of code can crash and restart any iPhone or iPad and can cause a Mac computer to freeze. Sabri Haddouche , a security researcher at encrypted instant messaging app Wire, revealed a proof-of-concept PoC web page containing an exploit that uses only a few lines of...

In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free

Later this month, all of the three major consumer credit bureaus will be required to offer free credit freezes to all Americans and their dependents. Maybe you've been holding off freezing your credit file because your home state currently charges a fee for placing or thawing a credit freeze, or...

Boys Town Healthcare Data Breach Exposed Personal Details of Patients

Another day, Another data breach! This time-sensitive and personal data of hundreds of thousands of people at Boys Town National Research Hospital have been exposed in what appears to be the largest ever reported breach by a pediatric care provider or children's hospital. According to the U.S...

Microsoft Windows Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-15860)

Microsoft Windows 7, etc. are operating systems released by Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. Microsoft Windows 7 is a set of operating systems for personal computers.Windows Server 2012 R2 is a set of server operating systems. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows, which...

Citrix XenServer Multiple Security Updates

Description of Problem Two issues have been identified within Citrix XenServer, which could, if exploited, allow unprivileged code in a PV guest VM to cause the host to crash or become unresponsive. These vulnerabilities affect all currently supported versions of Citrix XenServer up to and...

Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again.

I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are...

CVE-2015-9222

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, and...

Code injection

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile MDM9635M, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 810, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, and...

Code injection

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, and...

CVE-2015-9222

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, and...

CVE-2015-9222

CVE-2015-9222 corresponds to RomPager Misfortune Cookie authentication bypass. Affected: RomPager

CVE-2015-9222: Undefined Security Weakness

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, and...

CVE-2018-9115

Systematic SitaWare 6.4 SP2 does not validate input from other sources sufficiently. e.g., information utilizing the NVG interface. An attacker can freeze the Situational Layer, which means that the Situational Picture is no longer updated. Unfortunately, the user cannot notice until he tries to...

PT-2018-18863

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Systematic SitaWare version 6.4 SP2 Description The issue arises from insufficient input validation from other sources, such as information utilizing the NVG interface. This can allow an attacker to freeze the Situational Layer, preventing...

CVE-2018-9115: Improper Input Validation

Systematic SitaWare 6.4 SP2 does not validate input from other sources sufficiently. e.g., information utilizing the NVG interface. An attacker can freeze the Situational Layer, which means that the Situational Picture is no longer updated. Unfortunately, the user cannot notice until he tries to...

PT-2018-1706

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2018-04-05 security patch level Description The issue is related to the processing of erroneous bitstreams in Android, which may result in a hardware freeze. Normally, the firmware should detect the hardware freeze...

Systematic SitAware - NVG Denial of Service Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc Exploit Title: SitAware NVG Denial of Service Date: 03/31/2018 Exploit Author: 2u53 Vendor Homepage: https://systematic.com/defence/products/c2/sitaware/ Version: 6.4 SP2 Tested on: Windows Server 2012 R2 CVE: CVE-2018-9115 Remarks: PoC needs...

rubygems: No size limit in summary length of gem spec

It was found that rubygems could use an excessive amount of CPU while parsing a sufficiently long gem summary. A specially crafted gem from a gem repository could freeze gem commands attempting to parse its summary...