FTC Hires Privacy Researcher Ashkan Soltani as Chief Technologist

The FTC has hired Ashkan Soltani, a highly regarded and respected technologist and privacy researcher, as its chief technologist. The move is the latest in a string of interesting hires by the Federal Trade Commission. In 2009 the agency hired Chris Soghoian, a privacy and security researcher, as...

MS14-060 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 "MS14-060 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution", 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability found in...

MS14-060 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution

This module exploits a vulnerability found in Windows Object Linking and Embedding OLE allowing arbitrary code execution, publicly known as "Sandworm". Platforms such as Windows Vista SP2 all the way to Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 and 2012 are known to be vulnerable. However, based on our...

CA20141001-01: Security Notice for Bash Shellshock Vulnerability

CA20141001-01: Security Notice for Bash Shellshock Vulnerability Issued: October 01, 2014 Updated: October 03, 2014 CA Technologies is investigating multiple GNU Bash vulnerabilities, referred to as the "Shellshock" vulnerabilities, which were publicly disclosed on September 24-27, 2014. CVE...

flash-plugin: multiple code execution or security bypass flaws (APSB14-21)

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.244 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.152 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.406 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.249 on Windows and OS X and before 15.0.0.252 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.249, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.249 allow...

Updated kernel-vserver package fixes security vulnerabilities

Updated kernel-vserver provides upstream 3.10.51 kernel and fixes the following security issues: Array index error in the aioreadeventsring function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a large head value...

flash-plugin: multiple code execution or security bypass flaws (APSB14-18)

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.241 and 14.x before 14.0.0.176 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.400 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.0.178 on Windows and OS X and before 14.0.0.179 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 14.0.0.178, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 14.0.0.178 do not properly...

CVE-2014-0545

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.241 and 14.x before 14.0.0.176 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.400 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.0.178 on Windows and OS X and before 14.0.0.179 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 14.0.0.178, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 14.0.0.178 do not properly...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Master Data Services MDS in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1 and 2014 on 64-bit platforms allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL, aka "SQL Master Data Services XSS Vulnerability."...

Company That Sells 'FinFisher' Spying Tool Got Hacked, 40GB Data Leaked

FinFisher spyware, a spyware application used by government and law enforcement agencies for the purpose of surveillance, appears to have been hacked earlier this week and a string of files has been dumped on the Internet. The highly secret surveillance software called “FinFisher” sold by British...

OpenJDK: TLS/SSL handshake timing issues (JSSE, 8023069)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u55, 6u65, and 7u45; JRockit R27.7.7 and R28.2.9; Java SE Embedded 7u45; and OpenJDK 7 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality and integrity via vectors related to JSSE. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2014 CPU. Oracle ha...

LibreSSL Portable Fork Of OpenSSL Released

After months of code cleanup and rewriting, the OpenBSD Foundation this weekend sent LibreSSL out the door. The slimmed down OpenSSL fork works on a number of platforms beyond OpenBSD, including several Linux flavors, Solaris, Mac OS X and Free BSD. “I firmly believe that LibreSSL is in a better...

Moscrack v2.08b - Multifarious On-demand Systems Cracker (cracking WPA keys in parallel on a group of computers)

Moscrack is a perl application designed to facilitate cracking WPA keys in parallel on a group of computers. This is accomplished by use of either Mosix clustering software, SSH or RSH access to a number of nodes. With Moscrack's new plugin framework, hash cracking has become possible. SHA256/512...

flash-plugin: security protection bypass (APSB14-17)

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.231 and 14.x before 14.0.0.145 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.394 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.0.137 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 14.0.0.137, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 14.0.0.137 allow attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via...

CVE-2014-4715

Yann Collet LZ4 before r119, when used on certain 32-bit platforms that allocate memory beyond 0x80000000, does not properly detect integer overflows, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted...

CVE-2014-4715

Yann Collet LZ4 before r119, when used on certain 32-bit platforms that allocate memory beyond 0x80000000, does not properly detect integer overflows, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted...

CVE-2014-4715

Yann Collet LZ4 before r119, when used on certain 32-bit platforms that allocate memory beyond 0x80000000, does not properly detect integer overflows, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted...

CVE-2014-4611

CVE-2014-4611 concerns an integer overflow in the LZ4 implementation used in Yann Collet LZ4 prior to r118 and in the Linux kernel’s lz4_decompress.c (linux kernel before 3.15.2) on 32-bit platforms. A crafted Literal Run can trigger improper handling, enabling context-dependent attackers to caus...

CVE-2014-4715

Yann Collet LZ4 before r119, when used on certain 32-bit platforms that allocate memory beyond 0x80000000, does not properly detect integer overflows, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted...

CVE-2014-4611

Integer overflow in the LZ4 algorithm implementation, as used in Yann Collet LZ4 before r118 and in the lz4uncompress function in lib/lz4/lz4decompress.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2, on 32-bit platforms might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption o...