VUPEN Security Research - Mozilla Firefox "BumpChunk" Object Processing Use-after-free (Pwn2Own)

VUPEN Security Research - Mozilla Firefox "BumpChunk" Object Processing Use-after-free Pwn2Own Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with ...

VUPEN Security Research - Google Chrome "Clipboard::WriteData()" Function Sandbox Escape (Pwn2Own)

VUPEN Security Research - Google Chrome Clipboard Format Processing Sandbox Escape Pwn2Own Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. Chrome version 28 and beyond uses the WebK...

CVE-2014-1303

Heap-based buffer overflow in Apple Safari 7.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by Liang Chen during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2014...

CVE-2014-1303

Heap-based buffer overflow in Apple Safari 7.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by Liang Chen during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2014...

Firefox 28 Patches Four Pwn2Own Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

The Firefox web browser took a beating during last week’s Pwn2Own contest with researchers bringing four zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits to the table, walking away with a collective $200,000 in prize money in the process. Yesterday, Mozilla capped all four bugs among 18 security advisories...

Out-of-bounds read/write through neutering ArrayBuffer objects — Mozilla

Security researcher Jüri Aedla, via TippingPoint's Pwn2Own contest, reported that TypedArrayObject does not handle the case where ArrayBuffer objects are neutered, setting their length to zero while still in use. This leads to out-of-bounds reads and writes into the JavaScript heap, allowing for...

Privilege escalation using WebIDL-implemented APIs — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski, via TippingPoint's Pwn2Own contest, reported that it is possible for untrusted web content to load a chrome-privileged page by getting JavaScript-implemented WebIDL to call window.open. A second bug allowed the bypassing of the popup-blocker without user...

Browser Bugs, BIOS and Brokers dominate CanSecWest, Pwn2Own

Browsers, brokers and BIOS: you could safely call that triumvirate the past, present and future of security, but you’d be wrong. If last week’s CanSecWest conference, and Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests are indeed a point-in-time snapshot of the technical side of information security, then after last...

Google Patches Four Pwn2Own Bugs in Chrome 33

Now that the dust has settled after the Pwn2Own contest, the browser manufacturers are beginning to roll out patches for the vulnerabilities exploited by contestants. Google on Monday released fixes for a number of bugs in Chrome discovered and exploited during Pwn2Own, releasing new versions of...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss CanSecWest and Pwn2Own

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the news from the CanSecWest conference, the drama and melodrama at Pwn2Own and the bad year that RNGs have had. Download: digitalunderground148.mp3 Photo via mayanais‘ Flickr photostream, Creative Commons...

www/chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: New vulnerabilities after the Pwn2Own competition: 352369 Code execution outside sandbox. Credit to VUPEN. 352374 High CVE-2014-1713: Use-after-free in Blink bindings 352395 High CVE-2014-1714: Windows clipboard vulnerability 352420 Code execution outside sandbox...

Stable Channel Update

The Stable Channel has been updated to 33.0.1750.152 for Mac and Linux and 33.0.1750.154 for Windows. Security Fixes and Rewards Congratulations to VUPEN and an Anonymous submission for winning the Pwn2Own competition. $100,000 352369 Code execution outside sandbox. Credit to VUPEN. 352374 High...

China's Keen Team Topples Safari, Flash at Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER – One is the bug hunter, the other the exploit specialist. Fang Jiahong and Liang Chen represented the Keen Team at Pwn2Own on Thursday, starting off the second day of the annual exploit festival with a quick takedown of Apple’s Safari browser. They then wrapped up the contest with a...

IE 11 Stands Up to Pwn2Own Exploit Attempt

VANCOUVER – Successful exploits at the Pwn2Own contest get all the glitz, but the rarities are the exploits that fail. A group of four young South Korean hackers from ASRT, all of them well shy of their thirtieth birthdays, stood in proxy for Jung Hoon Lee. Lee was home fulfilling a military...

Charitable Prelude to Pwn2Own Not Without Its Critics

VANCOUVER – The prelude to the annual Pwn2Own contest between sponsor HP’s Zero Day Initiative and Pwnium contest sponsor Google produced not only zero-day exploits for Internet Explorer and Safari, but some skepticism about whether the exploits and details on the vulnerabilities were held for th...

Vupen Cashes in Four Times at Pwn2Own 2014

VANCOUVER – It’s become a familiar walk for Chaouki Bekrar. Year after year at the Pwn2Own contest, the controversial Vupen founder is scurried from a small room in the basement of the Sheraton hotel to a suite several floors above. It’s a short journey from where a string of zero-day exploits ar...

Google Fixes Four High-Risk Flaws in Chrome Before Pwn2Own

Google has fixed several serious security vulnerabilities in Chrome 33, just ahead of the Pwn2Own hacking competition at CanSecWest this week, which surely will reveal several more new bugs in the browser. The company’s Chrome browser is always at the top of the target list for contestants in...

Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bug Bounty Winner Yang Yu

Microsoft has paid out another $100,000 bounty as part of its Security Response Center’s bounty program. A researcher from Asia named Yang Yu was awarded the prize today for three mitigation bypass variants, Microsoft announced. “This payout reflects the fact that we learned something new that wi...

Pwn2Own To Pay $150,000 Grand Prize for Microsoft EMET Bypass

Microsoft has not been shy in the past nine months about advising users to install and use its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET as a temporary mitigation until zero-day vulnerabilities are patched. Experts have advised enterprises and smaller organizations to deploy EMET as a proactive...

Adobe Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities - 01 (Apr 2014) - Windows

Adobe Reader is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobatreader";...