Pwn2Own Safari Attack: Charlie Miller Hijacks MacBook

VANCOUVER, BC — For the third year in a row, Charlie Miller has hacked into a MacBook by exploiting a critical Safari browser vulnerability. At the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker contest here, Miller performed a clean drive-by download against Safari to get a full command shell on the MacBook. In the...

CVE-2010-1121

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.3 does not properly manage the scopes of DOM nodes that are moved from one document to another, which allows remote attackers to conduct use-after-free attacks and execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving improper interaction with garbage collectio...

iPhone Hacked at Pwn2Own; SMS Database Stolen

VANCOUVER, BC — A pair of European researchers used the spotlight of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest here to break into a fully patched iPhone and hijack the entire SMS database, including text messages that had already been deleted. Using an exploit against a previously unknown...

Mozilla Fast-Tracks Fix For Critical Firefox Flaw

Mozilla has fast-tracked a patch for a critical vulnerability affecting its flagship Firefox browser. The patch, which was originally slated for release on March 30, fixes a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution attacks. The flaw was originally released into the VulnDisco exploit...

Firefox 3.6.2 Fixes Decompression Bug

Days before the start of Pwn2Own, Mozilla has patched its flagship Firefox browser. The Firefox 3.6.2 update fixes a critical bug in a font decompression routine that could be exploited to “crash a victim’s browser and execute arbitrary code on his/her system,” Mozilla said in a security advisory...

On This Year's CanSecWest, Pwn2Own and the Latest Firefox Zero-day

Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine preview this year’s CanSecWest conference, the Pwn2Own contest and talk about the recent zero-day flaw in Firefox. Subscribe to the News Wrap podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of The New Radio Tough Road Ahead for Adobe on Security...

Pwn2Own Predictions: Apple iPhone Will Fall

Hackers at this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest will definitely break into an Apple iPhone by exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability. That’s the prediction from Charlie Miller and Aaron Portnoy, two security researchers who are monitoring events leading to next week’s hacker challenge...

Charlie Miller on Safari Bugs, Predictions for PWN2OWN and Mobile Security

Independent Security Evaluators’ Charlie Miller discusses Safari bugs, his predictions for this year’s PWN2OWN and mobile security with Ryan Naraine at RSA 2010...

Hacker Report 'High Risk' Flaws in Safari Browser

Over the last two weeks, security researchers have reported eight different zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari browser. Details of these vulnerabilities, all rated “high risk,” have been sold to Tippingpoint’s Zero Day Initiative ZDI, a program that purchases the rights to vulnerability...

CanSecWest Pwn2Own Hacker Contest Targets Smartphones

The organizers of this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own have painted a big bulls-eye on mobile devices, offering up an whopping $60,000 in prizes to entice hackers to exploit vulnerabilities on iPhones, Android, Nokia and BlackBerry smartphones. At Pwn2Own 2010, which takes place in Vancouver on March 2...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-745)

The Mozilla Firefox Browser was updated to the 3.0.8 release. It fixes several security issues : MFSA 2009-13 / CVE-2009-1044: Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree method moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering garbage collection routines...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-745)

The Mozilla Firefox Browser was updated to the 3.0.8 release. It fixes several security issues : MFSA 2009-13 / CVE-2009-1044: Security researcher Nils reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that the XUL tree method moveToEdgeShift was in some cases triggering garbage collection routines...

Microsoft unleashes 31 fixes on Patch Tuesday

From ZDNet Ryan Naraine Microsoft’s batch of patches this month is a big one: 10 bulletins covering a total of 31 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Windows OS, the Internet Explorer browser and the Microsoft Office productivity suite Word, Works and Excel. Five of the 10 bulletins are rate...

Charlie Miller on Mac Security, Pwn2Own and Selling Vulnerabilities

Dennis Fisher talks with Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators about Mac OS X security, winning the Pwn2Own contest again and the real market for selling vulnerabilities. Read Miller’s paper on selling 0-day vulnerabilities .pdf. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast o...

SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2009:022 (MozillaFirefox)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory SUSE-SA:2009:022. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: susesa2009022.nasl 6668 2017-07-11 13:34:29Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory SUSE-SA:2009:022 MozillaFirefox Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft In...

Firefox 3.0.8 fixes two code execution holes

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.8 to fix a pair of code execution holes that put users of the browser at risk of drive-by download attacks. It includes a fix for one of the flaws exploited during this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker contest. The update also fixes a separate zero-day flaw...

CVE-2009-1044

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the moveToEdgeShift XUL tree method, which triggers garbage collection on objects that are still in use, as demonstrated by Nils during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009...

CVE-2009-1060

Unspecified vulnerability in Apple Safari on Mac OS X 10.5.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors triggered by clicking on a link, as demonstrated by Charlie Miller during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in Apple Safari on Mac OS X 10.5.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors triggered by clicking on a link, as demonstrated by Charlie Miller during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009...

CVE-2009-1060

CVE-2009-1060 : A vulnerability in Apple Safari on Mac OS X 10.5.6 that permits remote code execution via clicking a link; vector is described as unknown. Demonstrated by Charlie Miller at Pwn2Own 2009. The connected documents do not provide detailed root cause, affected component versions beyond...