GHSA-P6H9-GW49-RQM4 markdown2 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting

An issue was discovered in markdown2 aka python-markdown2 through 2.3.5. The safemode feature, which is supposed to sanitize user input against XSS, is flawed and does not escape the input properly. With a crafted payload, XSS can be triggered, as demonstrated by omitting the final character from...

Navigating an Uncharted Future, Bug Bounty Hunters Seek Safe Harbors

When researcher Kevin Finisterre found a security error in drone-maker DJI’s systems enabling him to access flight log data and images of customers, he thought he had hit the $30,000 jackpot as part of the drone company’s newly announced bug bounty program. Instead, when the incident occurred in...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12893

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x. One of the fixes in XSA-260 added some safety checks to help prevent Xen livelocking with debug exceptions. Unfortunately, due to an oversight, at least one of these safety checks can be triggered by a guest. A malicious PV guest can crash Xen, leadi...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13053

The alarmtimernsleep function in kernel/time/alarmtimer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3 has an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktimeaddsafe is not used...

Micali-Schnorr Generator (MS-DRBG) Part III - Zero Knowledge Proof Wanted!!

See also Part I and Part II of this series This is going to be a short blog post about the infamous Micali-Schnorr Random Number Generator MS-DRBG. See Part I and Part II of this series for more information about this topic. WHO: NIST published the specification for Micali-Schnorr Random Number...

Your Mac Does Not Turn On: How to fix

If you are using your Mac every day with no issues, then that’s great. However, sometimes, like all computers, the Mac also does not respond to pressing the power button. If this happens, and you have no idea what to do, then it can lead to a lot of frustration. There could be several reasons why...

PT-2018-3945

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PyYAML versions prior to 5.1 Description The issue is related to the yaml.load API, which could execute arbitrary code if used with untrusted data. This could allow a remote attacker to access confidential data, compromise its integrity, and...

Email Phishers Using A Simple Way to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cyber criminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass most AI-powered phishing detection mechanisms implemented by widely used email services and web security scanners. Dubbed ZeroFont, the technique involves...

Remote code execution

An issue was discovered in Linaro LAVA before 2018.5.post1. Because of use of yaml.load instead of yaml.safeload when parsing user data, remote code execution can occur...

Microsoft Windows: MSS: Enable Safe DLL search mode

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winmlsafedllsearchmode.nasl 11337 2018-09-11 14:23:53Z emoss $ Check value for MSS: SafeDllSearchMode Enable Safe DLL search mode recommended Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Don’t be a Coinmining Zombie – Part 2: How Do You Protect Yourself from being Cryptojacked?

Safe behaviors to protect yourself from cryptojacking follow the familiar rules you should adhere to every day to protect yourself against viruses, worms, bots, and malware, including ransomware, which are typically pushed to you through phishing techniques and social engineering: | Strengthen yo...

CVE-2016-5287

A potentially exploitable use-after-free crash during actor destruction with service workers. This issue does not affect releases earlier than Firefox 49. This vulnerability affects Firefox 49.0.2...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

safe-eval is vulnerable to remote code execution RCE. The application does not properly sanitize user input in object constructors, allowing a malicious user to break out of the Sandbox and execute arbitrary commands...

CVE-2017-16088

The safe-eval module describes itself as a safer version of eval. By accessing the object constructors, un-sanitized user input can access the entire standard library and effectively break out of the sandbox...

CVE-2017-16088

The safe-eval module describes itself as a safer version of eval. By accessing the object constructors, un-sanitized user input can access the entire standard library and effectively break out of the sandbox...

Improper access control

The safe-eval module describes itself as a safer version of eval. By accessing the object constructors, un-sanitized user input can access the entire standard library and effectively break out of the sandbox...

CVE-2017-16088

CVE-2017-16088 affects the npm package safe-eval, where un-sanitized input can access Function/constructor.CREATE and escape the sandbox, potentially enabling arbitrary code execution. Documents show a sandbox breakout via the process object and evaluation of process.exit(), confirming an RCE-lik...

CVE-2017-16088

The safe-eval module describes itself as a safer version of eval. By accessing the object constructors, un-sanitized user input can access the entire standard library and effectively break out of the sandbox...

10-Strike Network Scanner 3.0 - Local Buffer Overflow (SEH)

Exploit Title: 10-Strike Network Scanner 3.0 - Local Buffer Overflow SEH Exploit Author: Hashim Jawad - ihack4falafel Date: 2018-06-05 Vendor Homepage: https://www.10-strike.com/ Vulnerable Software: https://www.10-strike.com/network-scanner/network-scanner.exe Tested on: Windows XP Professional ...

Netkids

Children today are completely at home in the digital space. They use digital diaries and textbooks at school, communicate via instant messaging, play games on mobile devices not to mention PCs and consoles, and create mini masterpieces on tablets and laptops. This total immersion in the digital...