PT-2019-15201

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apak Wholesale Floorplanning Finance versions 6.31.8.3 through 6.31.8.5 Description The issue allows an attacker to send an authenticated POST request with a malicious payload to "/WFS/agreementView.faces" which enables a stored XSS via the...

file: Stack-based buffer overflow

Background file is a utility that guesses a file format by scanning binary data for patterns. Description An issue discovered in file allows attackers to write 20 bytes to the stack buffer via a specially crafted .notes section. Impact A remote attacker, by using a specially crafted .notes sectio...

CVE-2017-1000249

An issue in file was introduced in commit 9611f31313a93aa036389c5f3b15eea53510d4d1 Oct 2016 lets an attacker overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buffer with a specially crafted .notes section in an ELF binary. This was fixed in commit 35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793 Aug 2017...

PT-2017-10942

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions file versions prior to the version containing commit 35c94dc6acc418f1ad7f6241a6680e5327495793 Description The issue allows an attacker to overwrite a fixed 20 bytes stack buffer with a specially crafted .notes section in an ELF binary. This ca...

Vulnerability Allows Anyone to DDoS Websites Using Facebook Servers

Reading a 'Note' created by anyone on the Facebook could trick you automatically to do malicious attacks against others unknowingly. A Security researcher Chaman Thapa, also known as chr13 claims that the flaw resides in 'Notes' section of the most popular social networking site - Facebook, that...

Researchers Find Trojan Using Facebook

Researchers at Symantec have discovered a trojan that uses Facebook to communicate with a control and command server. Dubbed “whitewell” this malware spreads via email, contacts the mobile version of Facebook and uses its Notes section to perform actions based on the Notes titles. Andrea Lelli...