DRAM Rowhammer vulnerability Leads to Kernel Privilege Escalation

Security researchers have find out ways to hijack the Intel-compatible PCs running Linux by exploiting the physical weaknesses in certain varieties of DDR DRAM double data rate dynamic random-access memory chips and gaining higher kernel privileges on the system. The technique, dubbed "rowhammer"...

Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges

Rowhammer blog post draft Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, reverse engineer This guest post continues Project Zero’s practice of promoting excellence in security research on the Project Zero blog Overview “Rowhammer” is a problem with some...

PhpMoAdmin vulnerability analysis report-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

phpMoAdmin is a convenient online MongoDB management tool that can be used to create, delete and modify databases and indexes, view and data search tool that provides database startup time and memory statistics, support for JSON format data import and export the php application. Recently named...

RedHat Update for samba3x RHSA-2015:0249-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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 ifdescription...

RedHat Update for samba RHSA-2015:0251-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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 ifdescription...

RHEL 6 : samba (RHSA-2015:0256)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0256 advisory. Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block SMB or Common Internet File System CIFS protocol, which allows PC-compatible...

CentOS 7 : samba (CESA-2015:0252)

Updated samba packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: samba security update

Updated samba packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Storage 3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE...

DLA-156-1 samba - security update

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Massive, Decades-Long Cyberespionage Framework Uncovered

CANCUN–Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a cyberespionage group that has been operating for at least 15 years and has worked with and supported the attackers behind Stuxnet, Flame and other highly sophisticated operations. The attackers, known as the Equation Group, used two of the zero...

Feedback and data-driven updates to Google’s disclosure policy

Posted by Chris Evans and Ben Hawkes, Project Zero; Heather Adkins, Matt Moore and Michal Zalewski, Google Security; Gerhard Eschelbeck, Vice President, Google Security Disclosure deadlines have long been an industry standard practice. They improve end-user security by getting security patches to...

PT-2015-07: Privilege Gaining in Inductive Automation Ignition

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Privilege Gaining vulnerability in Inductive Automation Ignition. After user’s logout session is not removed which could lead to session reuse by attacker with privileges of the same user. How to fix Update your sofware up to the...

WordPress Easing Slider 2.2.0.6 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Product: Easing Slider WordPress Plugin Vendor: Easing Slider Vulnerable Versions: 2.2.0.6 and probably prior Tested Version: 2.2.0.6 Advisory Publication: January 21, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: January 21, 2015 Vendor...

Researcher Tries to Get Ahead of CFAA Changes, Dumps 10M Sanitized Passwords

The Obama administration’s proposed changes to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA have security researchers on edge. The amendments, spurred on by 2014’s seemingly never-ending stream of data breaches, contain vagaries in their language that threaten legitimate research done in the name of improvi...

Researcher Publishes 10 Million Usernames and Passwords from Data Breaches

A security researcher has publicly released a set of 10 Million usernames and passwords, which he collected from multiple data breaches over the last decade for the purpose of his research. These 10 million usernames and passwords are collective of leaked database dumps those were already availab...

A Token’s Tale

Posted by James Forshaw currently impersonating NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Much as I enjoy the process of vulnerability research sometimes there’s a significant disparity between the difficulty of finding a vulnerability and exploiting it. The Project Zero blog contains numerous examples of complex...

CVE-2014-9674

The MacReadPOSTResource function in base/ftobjs.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 proceeds with adding to length values without validating the original values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other...

CVE-2014-9671

Off-by-one error in the pcfgetproperties function in pcf/pcfread.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted PCF file with a 0xffffffff size value that is improperly incremented...

CVE-2014-9672

Array index error in the parsefond function in base/ftmac.c in FreeType before 2.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted FOND resource in a Mac font file...

RHEL 6 : rhev-hypervisor6 (RHSA-2015:0126)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0126 advisory. The rhev-hypervisor6 package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization...