New Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability Publicly Disclosed; Identified in October 2013

Oh Microsoft, How could you do this to your own Internet Explorer? Microsoft had kept hidden a critical Zero-Day vulnerability of Internet explorer 8 from all of us, since October 2013. A Critical zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability CVE-2014-1770, which was discovered by Peter 'corelanc0d3r'...

Group Backed by Google, Microsoft and Others to Help Fund OpenSSL and Other Open Source Projects

After the dust had started to settle in the wake of the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability earlier this month, one of the common sentiments that emerged was that the small group developing and maintaining the software needed some help. And money. And resources. But mostly money. Now, the OpenSSL...

Facebook Bug Bounty Submissions Dramatically Increase

Facebook today reported a dramatic increase in 2013 submissions to its bug bounty program, and said that despite reports from researchers that it’s becoming difficult to find severe bugs on its various properties, the social network plans to increase rewards for critical bugs. “The volume of...

ESA-2014-018: EMC Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ESA-2014-018.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2014-018: EMC Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition Information Disclosure Vulnerability EMC Identifier: ESA-2014-018 CVE Identifier: CVE-2014-2276 Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: CVSS: 5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N...

IE 11 Stands Up to Pwn2Own Exploit Attempt

VANCOUVER – Successful exploits at the Pwn2Own contest get all the glitz, but the rarities are the exploits that fail. A group of four young South Korean hackers from ASRT, all of them well shy of their thirtieth birthdays, stood in proxy for Jung Hoon Lee. Lee was home fulfilling a military...

Vupen Cashes in Four Times at Pwn2Own 2014

VANCOUVER – It’s become a familiar walk for Chaouki Bekrar. Year after year at the Pwn2Own contest, the controversial Vupen founder is scurried from a small room in the basement of the Sheraton hotel to a suite several floors above. It’s a short journey from where a string of zero-day exploits ar...

Cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For 'Internet of Things' Security Apps

In the last few years, this emerging domain for the Internet of Things has been attracting the significant interest, and will continue for the years to come. It would be a $20 Trillion Market over the next several years, but Security and privacy are the key issues for such applications, and still...

[security bulletin] HPSBST02937 rev.1 - HP StoreVirtual 4000 and StoreVirtual VSA Software dbd_manager, Remote Execution of Arbitrary Code

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Note: the current version of the following document is available here: https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/ docDisplay?docId=emrna-c03995204 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c03995204 Version: 1 HPSBST02937 rev....

APPLE-SA-2014-02-25-3 QuickTime 7.7.5

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2014-02-25-3 QuickTime 7.7.5 QuickTime 7.7.5 is now available and addresses the following: QuickTime Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application...

Use-after-free with imgRequestProxy and image processing — Mozilla

Security researcher Arthur Gerkis, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free during image processing from sites with specific content types in concert with the imgRequestProxy function. This causes a potentially exploitable crash...

HP Data Protector Backup Client Service opcode 42 directory traversal

Added: 01/28/2014 CVE: CVE-2013-6194 BID: 64647 OSVDB: 101630 Background HP OpenView Storage Data Protector is a backup solution for enterprise and distributed environments. Problem A vulnerability in the Backup Client Service OmniInet.exe allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to write files t...

TrueCrypt Open Source License Audit Bringing Clarity

The list of objectors to the TrueCrypt open source license is a long one and includes some popular distributions such as Debian, Fedora—and by extension Red Hat. In fact, the wrangling over the TrueCrypt license dates back as far as 2006, long before there were serious inquiries as to the...

Internet Explorer CCaret UpdateScreenCaret Memory Corruption

Added: 10/03/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-3205 BID: 62208 OSVDB: 97094 Background Internet Explorer is an HTML web browser which comes by default on Microsoft operating systems. Problem Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a use-after-free error that is triggered when handling a CCaret object. The...

Authentication flaw

The PPP Access Concentrator PPPAC in Internet Initiative Japan Inc. SEIL/x86 1.00 through 2.80, SEIL/X1 1.00 through 4.30, SEIL/X2 1.00 through 4.30, SEIL/B1 1.00 through 4.30, SEIL/Turbo 1.80 through 2.15, and SEIL/neu 2FE Plus 1.80 through 2.15 generates predictable random numbers, which allows...

CVE-2013-4708

The CVE-2013-4708 issue affects SEIL Series routers from Internet Initiative Japan Inc. The vuln arises from predictable random-number generation in the PPP Access Concentrator (PPPAC) when performing RADIUS authentication, allowing remote attackers who can sniff RADIUS traffic to bypass authenti...

CVE-2013-4708: Undefined Security Weakness

The PPP Access Concentrator PPPAC in Internet Initiative Japan Inc. SEIL/x86 1.00 through 2.80, SEIL/X1 1.00 through 4.30, SEIL/X2 1.00 through 4.30, SEIL/B1 1.00 through 4.30, SEIL/Turbo 1.80 through 2.15, and SEIL/neu 2FE Plus 1.80 through 2.15 generates predictable random numbers, which allows...

WellinTech Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on December 10, 2013, and is now being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT Web site. NCCIC/ICS-CERT received reports from the Zero Day Initiative ZDI regarding a remote code execution vulnerability and an information...

Internet Explorer CFlatMarkupPointer Object Handling Use-after-free Vulnerability

Added: 09/05/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-3184 BID: 61668 OSVDB: 96182 Background Internet Explorer is an HTML web browser which comes by default on Microsoft operating systems. Problem A user-after-free vulnerability when handling the InsertImage command identifier of CFlatMarkupPointer objects in a web...

Oracle Endeca Server createDataStore method command execution

Added: 09/04/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-3763 BID: 61217 OSVDB: 95269 Background Oracle Endeca Server is a hybrid search-analytical database. Problem A vulnerability in the controlSoapBinding service allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending a request for the createDataStore method...

Oracle Endeca Server createDataStore method command execution

Added: 09/04/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-3763 BID: 61217 OSVDB: 95269 Background Oracle Endeca Server is a hybrid search-analytical database. Problem A vulnerability in the controlSoapBinding service allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending a request for the createDataStore method...