CVE-2018-1000069

FreePlane version 1.5.9 and earlier contains a XML External Entity XXE vulnerability in XML Parser in mindmap loader that can result in stealing data from victim's machine. This attack appears to require the victim to open a specially crafted mind map file. This vulnerability appears to have been...

CVE-2018-1000069

CVE-2018-1000069 affects FreePlane

APT Hackers Infect Routers to Covertly Implant Slingshot Spying Malware

Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a sophisticated APT hacking group that has been operating since at least 2012 without being noticed due to their complex and clever hacking techniques. The hacking group used a piece of advanced malware—dubbed Slingshot—to infect hundreds of...

New Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Infected Over 500,000 PCs in Just Few Hours

Two days ago, Microsoft encountered a rapidly spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware that infected almost 500,000 computers within just 12 hours and successfully blocked it to a large extent. Dubbed Dofoil, aka Smoke Loader, the malware was found dropping a cryptocurrency miner program as payloa...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7550

The loadmultiboot function in hw/i386/multiboot.c in Quick Emulator aka QEMU allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via a mhloadendaddr value greater than mhbssendaddr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write memory access...

WebKitGTK 2.1.2 (Ubuntu 14.04) - Heap based Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits CVE-2014-1303 PoC for Linux CVE-2014-1303 WebKit Heap based BOF proof of concept for Linux. This repository demonstrates the WebKit heap based buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2014-1303 on Linux. NOTE: Original exploit is written for Mac OS X...

Threat Analysis: ROKRAT Malware

ROKRAT also referred to as DOGcall is a family of malware that has been used by attackers originating from North Korea. The family continues to evolve and adopt techniques from other families also used by the same attack group. The ROKRAT core payload is typically deployed by a loader, which has...

Sony Playstation 4 (PS4) 4.55 - 'Jailbreak' 'setAttributeNodeNS' WebKit 5.02 / 'bpf' Kernel Loader 4.55

PS4 4.55 Kernel Exploit --- Summary In this project you will find a full implementation of the "bpf" kernel exploit for the PlayStation 4 on 4.55. It will allow you to run arbitrary code as kernel, to allow jailbreaking and kernel-level modifications to the system. This release however, does not...

Avzhan DDoS bot dropped by Chinese drive-by attack

The Avzhan DDoS bot has been known since 2010, but recently we saw it in wild again, being dropped by a Chinese drive-by attack. In this post, we'll take a deep dive into its functionality and compare the sample we captured with the one described in the past. Analyzed sample...

CVE-2018-6389

In WordPress through 4.9.2, unauthenticated attackers can cause a denial of service resource consumption by using the large list of registered .js files from wp-includes/script-loader.php to construct a series of requests to load every file many times...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6389

In WordPress through 4.9.2, unauthenticated attackers can cause a denial of service resource consumption by using the large list of registered .js files from wp-includes/script-loader.php to construct a series of requests to load every file many times...

PT-2018-17524 · WordPress +1 · Wordpress +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress versions prior to 4.9.3 Description: The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by consuming resources. This can be achieved by constructing a series of requests to load a large number of registered .js...

Symlink Privilege Escalation

spring-boot-loader-tools is vulnerable to symlink privilege escalation attacks. The runuser can overwrite and take over ownership of any file on the system by using a symlink attack. The application must be installed as a service and the runuser must have shell access in order to successfully...

SamSam - The Evolution Continues Netting Over $325,000 in 4 Weeks

This post was written by Vitor Ventura Introduction Talos has been working in conjunction with Cisco IR Services on what we believe to be a new variant of the SamSam ransomware. This ransomware has been observed across multiple industries including Government, Healthcare and ICS. These attacks do...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3534-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for glibc (openSUSE-SU-2018:0089-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Debian DSA-4088-1 : gdk-pixbuf - security update

It was discovered that multiple integer overflows in the GIF image loader in the GDK Pixbuf library may result in denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image file is opened. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4088-1] gdk-pixbuf security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4088-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 15, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

A week in security (January 8 – January 14)

It's very early in the year, yet everyone has already had a complete meltdown pun intended over a number of serious vulnerabilities found in legacy and modern microprocessors. Last week, rightly so, vendors released patches for hardware and OSes to help mitigate these threats. However, problems i...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2018:0074-1)

This update for glibc fixes the following issues : - A privilege escalation bug in the realpath function has been fixed. CVE-2018-1000001, bsc1074293 - A memory leak and a buffer overflow in the dynamic ELF loader has been fixed. CVE-2017-1000408, CVE-2017-1000409, bsc1071319 - An issue in the co...