Java 1.7 -- security manager bypass

US-CERT reports: Oracle Java Runtime Environment JRE 1.7 contains a vulnerability that may allow an applet to call setSecurityManager in a way that allows setting of arbitrary permissions. By leveraging the public, privileged getField function, an untrusted Java applet can escalate its privileges...

Design/Logic Flaw

Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 on Windows does not properly isolate sandboxed processes, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service process interference via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2012-2816

Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 on Windows does not properly isolate sandboxed processes, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service process interference via unspecified vectors...

Google Hands out $60k Reward for Full Chrome Compromise in Pwnium Contest

VANCOUVER–Well, that didn’t take long. Before the first session of the CanSecWest conference here even started on Wednesday, a researcher had already succeeded in scoring a full compromise of Google Chrome, using two distinct bugs, and earning himself a $60,000 reward as part of the company’s...

Google Withdraws Pwn2Own Sponsorship, Sets Aside $1 Mil. For Prizes

Google threw down the gloves on their Chromium Blog yesterday with an announcement that they would pay out up to $1 million in prize money for Chrome exploits at CanSecWest this year. The blogpost also announces that Google will no longer sponsor or officially participate in Pwn2Own because of a...

Apple Pushes Back Deadline for Sandboxing OS X Apps

Apple has pushed back the deadline for developers to include a sandbox in all of the apps on the Mac App Store, giving them a reprieve until June 1. The deadline was set for March 1, but Apple has changed it in order to give developers more time to work with the new requirements. Apple originally...

Gatekeeper to Bring Tight App Controls to OS X Mountain Lion

Apple’s implementation of a semi-new set of technologies collectively known as Gatekeeper in the upcoming Mountain Lion release of Mac OS X is set to give users better control of the security of the machines, specifically which apps are allowed to run. The Gatekeeper system will enable users to...

Mac OS X Sandbox Security Hole Uncovered

Researchers at Core Security Technologies have uncovered a security hole that could allow someone to circumvent the application sandbox restrictions of Mac OS X. The report of the vulnerability, which affects Mac OS X 10.7x, 10.6x and 10.5x, follows Apple’s announcement earlier this month that al...

Apple to Require Mac Apps to Be Sandboxed

Apple has informed developers that, as of March 2012, any app submitted to the Mac App Store will have to include a sandbox. The move is an intriguing one from Apple, which has kept a low profile on security and typically handles Mac security on its own. The statement from Apple comes at a time...

Advisory: Dolphin Browser HD Cross-Application Scripting

1 Background ============ Android applications are executed in a sandbox environment, to ensure that no application can access sensitive information held by another, without adequate privileges. For example, the Dolphin browser application holds sensitive information such as cookies, cache and...

Apple Safari Update Fixes 58 Bugs, Adds Sandboxing

Along with the release of their new Lion OS X, Apple has issued a new version of its Safari browser for Mac and Windows users, pushing version 5.1 and 5.0.6 to patch a boatload of security holes, some of which are critical. Fifty-eight security vulnerabilities in total are addressed in the update...

Google: Spyware Found, Removed from Android Market

Google says it has suspended a number of suspicious applications from the Android Market after researchers at NC State announced they had discovered a new and particularly stealthy piece of spyware, dubbed “Plankton,” lurking in Android applications there. According to a report by computer scienc...

Google Chrome Gets Updates: New Interfaces, Faster Browsing !

Tuesday, Google announced a few changes to Chrome, its engineered-for-speed web browser. The super-fast beta version that was announced a few weeks ago has already been updated to a stable version. For the Googlers working on Chrome, speed entails not only faster code the latest version of Chrome...

RedHat Linux - Stickiness of /tmp

from: http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=129842239022495&w=2 Developers should not rely on the stickiness of /tmp on Red Hat Linux --------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora provide seunshare, a setuid root utili...

9) Meet the new spam, same as the old spam

As in life in general, if something works, you stick with it. How else to explain the continued popularity and prevelance of e-mail based spam and phishing attacks, even though everyone knows that e-mail is so “1998”? Alas, the truth is that attacks embedded as links or malicious attachments in...

Assessing the Adobe Reader X Sandbox

Over the past few years, malicious PDFs have become common place and a prefered vector for attackers. Last week, Adobe announced the release of Reader X – the much anticipated next major release of their ubiquitous document reader, which includes a new security feature called ”Protected Mode”...

CVE-2010-2298

browser/rendererhost/databasedispatcherhost.cc in Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 on Linux does not properly handle ViewHostMsgDatabaseOpenFile messages in chroot-based sandboxing, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended sandbox restrictions via vectors involving fchdir and chdir calls...

CVE-2010-2298

Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 on Linux is vulnerable due to improper handling of ViewHostMsg_DatabaseOpenFile in chroot-based sandboxing, allowing sandbox bypass via fchdir/chdir. Root cause: database_dispatcher_host.cc in renderer_host. Affected: Chrome versions prior to 5.0.375.70. Mitigation...

Inside The Google Chrome OS Security Model

Google plans to use a combination of system hardening, process isolation, verified boot, secure auto-update and encryption to thwart malicious hackers from planting malware on its new Google Chrome OS. Much like the Google Chrome browser, the operating system will use process sandboxing as the ke...

Stable update: 2 WebKit security fixes

Google Chrome's Stable channel has been updated to version 2.0.172.31 to fix two security issues in WebKit. CVE-2009-1690 Memory corruption A memory corruption issue exists in WebKit's handling of recursion in certain DOM event handlers. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to a tab...