Critical Vulnerabilities in Facebook and Picasa discovered by Microsoft

Critical Vulnerabilities in Facebook and Picasa discovered byMicrosoft Microsoft security researchers have identified critical vulnerabilities in Facebook and Google Picase which led to account compromise and arbitrary code execution. The bug in Picasa that the MVR team found could allow an...

Internet Explorer DOM modification memory corruption

Added: 06/28/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-1256 BID: 48207 OSVDB: 72948 Background The Document Object Model DOM is a convention for interacting with objects in HTML pages. Problem A memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer allows command execution when a user loads a specially crafted web page...

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Insecure Library Injection

Added: 03/14/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-0029 BID: 46678 OSVDB: 71014 Background The Windows Remote Desktop allows desktop access to one Windows computer from another Windows computer. Problem A library loading vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Client allows arbitrary command execution when a user opens...

Windows Thumbnail View CreateSizedDIBSECTION buffer overflow

Added: 01/14/2011 CVE: CVE-2010-3970 BID: 45662 OSVDB: 70263 Background The shimgvw.dll library is part of the Microsoft Graphics Rendering Engine. Problem A vulnerability in shimgvw.dll allows command execution when Windows renders a thumbnail image which passes a specially crafted biClrUsed...

Windows Thumbnail View CreateSizedDIBSECTION buffer overflow

Added: 01/14/2011 CVE: CVE-2010-3970 BID: 45662 OSVDB: 70263 Background The shimgvw.dll library is part of the Microsoft Graphics Rendering Engine. Problem A vulnerability in shimgvw.dll allows command execution when Windows renders a thumbnail image which passes a specially crafted biClrUsed...

Microsoft Security Advisory 2488013

Microsoft Security Advisory 2488013 addresses a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This advisory has been updated to include Microsoft Fix It 50591 that prevents the recursive loading of CSS style sheets in Internet Explorer as a mitigation for this vulnerability. Exploitation of this...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Import Use-After-Free Code Execution

Added: 12/22/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3971 BID: 45246 OSVDB: 69796 Background Internet Explorer is an HTML web browser which comes by default on Microsoft operating systems. Cascading Style Sheets CSS is a simple mechanism for adding style to web documents. Problem Microsoft Internet Explorer is...

Internet Explorer HTML+TIME element OuterText memory corruption

Added: 12/16/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3346 BID: 45261 OSVDB: 69829 Background The HTML+TIME component of Internet Explorer adds timing and media synchronization support to HTML pages. Problem A memory corruption vulnerability in the HTML+TIME component allows command execution when a user loads a...

Microsoft Office FlashPix Image Converter Dictionary property buffer overflow

Added: 12/14/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3951 BID: 45278 OSVDB: 69808 Background Microsoft Office is a package that provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, e-mail, and calendaring capabilities for Microsoft Windows workstations. The suite ships with a set of image processing helper libraries...

Microsoft Office FlashPix Image Converter Dictionary property buffer overflow

Added: 12/14/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3951 BID: 45278 OSVDB: 69808 Background Microsoft Office is a package that provides word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, e-mail, and calendaring capabilities for Microsoft Windows workstations. The suite ships with a set of image processing helper libraries...

Internet Explorer CSS clip attribute memory corruption

Added: 11/16/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3962 BID: 44536 OSVDB: 68987 Background Cascading Style Sheets CSS is a simple mechanism for adding style to web documents. Problem A memory corruption vulnerability allows command execution when a user loads a web page containing a CSS clip attribute with a specif...

Internet Explorer CSS clip attribute memory corruption

Added: 11/16/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3962 BID: 44536 OSVDB: 68987 Background Cascading Style Sheets CSS is a simple mechanism for adding style to web documents. Problem A memory corruption vulnerability allows command execution when a user loads a web page containing a CSS clip attribute with a specif...

Internet Explorer CSS clip attribute memory corruption

Added: 11/16/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3962 BID: 44536 OSVDB: 68987 Background Cascading Style Sheets CSS is a simple mechanism for adding style to web documents. Problem A memory corruption vulnerability allows command execution when a user loads a web page containing a CSS clip attribute with a specif...

ASPR #2010-11-10-3: Remote Binary Planting in Microsoft Excel 2010

=====BEGIN-ACROS-REPORT===== PUBLIC ========================================================================= ACROS Security Problem Report 2010-11-10-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASPR 2010-11-10-3: Remote Binary Planting in Microsoft Excel 2010...

Indian hackers focus on botnet attacks

A new report released by computer giant Microsoft has revealed that the attack of 'botnets' on computers has increased in India. A botnet is a network of computers, controlled by one computer bot herder, which attacks another PC and makes it a part of its network. The report says that the Indian...

Kaspersky Updater GUI 2.2.0.72 Commandline Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ======================================================== Kaspersky Updater GUI 2.2.0.72 Commandline Vulnerability ======================================================== Exploit Title : Commandline vulnerability Date : 27 Oct 2010 Author :...

Safe Returner 1.27.5 Commandline Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ============================================== Safe Returner 1.27.5 Commandline Vulnerability ============================================== Exploit Title : Commandline vulnerability Date : 27 Oct 2010 Author : STRELiTZIA Software : Safe...

Microsoft Office Excel RTD Topic String Buffer Overflow

Added: 10/20/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-1246 BID: 40524 OSVDB: 65238 Background Microsoft Excel, part of the Microsoft Office product suite, is a spreadsheet application for Windows platforms. Problem Microsoft Office Excel 2002 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when parsing Real Time Data RTD Future...

Windows SMB2 buffer overflow

Added: 09/20/2010 CVE: CVE-2009-3103 BID: 36299 OSVDB: 57799 Background SMB2 is the replacement protocol for the SMB Windows filesharing protocol. Problem A buffer overflow vulnerability in the SMB2 Service allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Resolution Apply the patch referenc...

Windows SMB2 buffer overflow

Added: 09/20/2010 CVE: CVE-2009-3103 BID: 36299 OSVDB: 57799 Background SMB2 is the replacement protocol for the SMB Windows filesharing protocol. Problem A buffer overflow vulnerability in the SMB2 Service allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Resolution Apply the patch referenc...