Google Serves Up a Half Slice of Pwnium Cash for Pinkie Pie

Depending upon your perspective, the third iteration of Google Pwnium at this year’s CanSecWest conference was either a mild failure or a huge success. No researchers were able to come up with a full compromise of the Chrome OS, the target in this year’s contest, but Google said this week that it...

Two High-Risk Flaws Fixed in Google Chrome 23

Google has fixed two bugs in its Chrome browser, including a high-severity vulnerability in its media handler that a researcher named Pinkie Pie discovered. The bug, which is different from another use-after-free vulnerability the researcher used in the Pwnium contest at Hack in the Box in Octobe...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 161564 High CVE-2012-5138: Incorrect file path handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Jüri Aedla. 162835 High CVE-2012-5137: Use-after-free in media source handling. Credit to Pinkie Pie...

'Pinkie Pie' discovered second Chrome exploit worth $60k at Pwnium 2

Hacker known as "Pinkie Pie" produced the first Chrome vulnerability at the Hack In the Box conference on Wednesday, just ahead of the deadline for the competition this afternoon. The exploit, if later confirmed by Google's US headquarters, will have earned the teenage hacker known as Pinkie Pie...

Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 22.0.1229.94 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release contains fixes for the security issue listed below. Security fixes and rewards: Congratulations to Pinkie Pie, returning to the fray with another beautiful piece of work! We're delighted at the success o...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: 154983154987 Critical CVE-2012-5112: SVG use-after-free and IPC arbitrary file write. Credit to Pinkie Pie...

CentOS Update for qemu-img CESA-2012:0050 centos6

Check for the Version of qemu-img OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for qemu-img CESA-2012:0050 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

Fedora 17 : cifs-utils-5.5-2.fc17 (2012-10421)

This update enables some extra security features in the executables specifically, PIE and RELRO support. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much ...

Fedora 16 : cifs-utils-5.5-2.fc16 (2012-10453)

This updates the package to the lastest upstream release and enables some extra security features in the executables specifically, PIE and RELRO support. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...

CentOS 6 : qemu-kvm (CESA-2012:0050)

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue, one bug, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which give...

qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:0050 Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue, one bug, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue, one bug, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which give...

qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.209.el62.4 - kvm-e1000-prevent-buffer-overflow-when-processing-legacy.patch bz772081 - Resolves: bz772081 EMBARGOED CVE-2012-0029 qemu-kvm: e1000: processtxdesc legacy mode packets heap overflow rhel-6.2.z qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.209.el62.3 -...

CVE-2011-2837: Undefined Security Weakness

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 on Linux does not use the PIC and PIE compiler options for position-independent code, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

Code injection

The dotaskstat function in fs/proc/array.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc1 does not perform an expected uid check, which makes it easier for local users to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by reading the startcode and endcode fields in the /proc//stat file for a process executing a PIE...

kernel: proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat

The dotaskstat function in fs/proc/array.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc1 does not perform an expected uid check, which makes it easier for local users to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by reading the startcode and endcode fields in the /proc//stat file for a process executing a PIE...

PHP Socket connect() Stack Buffer Overflow

Hi there, This is a quick writeup about some fun with apache based on CVE-2011-1938 that was disclosed yesterday. While the first POC was literally just a trivial POC - the second one was written for self-educational purposes we leared quite a lot which is the most important thing and we hope it...

kernel: proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat

The dotaskstat function in fs/proc/array.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc1 does not perform an expected uid check, which makes it easier for local users to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism by reading the startcode and endcode fields in the /proc//stat file for a process executing a PIE...

wireshark security update

1.0.11-1.0.1.el55.5 - Add oracle-ocfs2-network.patch 1.0.11-1.5 - rebuild without smp flags fixes problems with doc generating 1.0.11-1.4 - add erf overflow patch - Resolves 532479 1.0.11-1.3 - bring back pie patch from Jindrich Novy - no GUI freeze - Resolves: 549583...

Remote file inclusion

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in lib/action/rss.php in RSS module 0.1 for Pie Web Ma,esher, when registerglobals is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the lib parameter...