Windows 10^H^H Symbolic Link Mitigations

Posted by James Forshaw, abusing symbolic links like it’s 1999. For the past couple of years I’ve been researching Windows elevation of privilege attacks. This might be escaping sandboxing or gaining system privileges. One of the techniques I’ve used multiple times is abusing the symbolic link...

Mozilla Firefox for Android < 27.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Oracle Java MBeanInstantiator.findClass Remote Code Execution - Ver2 (CVE-2013-0422)

A code execution vulnerability has been reported in Oracle Java. The vulnerability is due to an access control failure in the com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver package and in the invokeWithArguments method of the java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle class. A remote attacker could trigger this vulnerability by usi...

kernel: install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check

The installspecialmapping function in mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc6 does not make an expected securityfilemmap function call, which allows local users to bypass intended mmapminaddr restrictions and possibly conduct NULL pointer dereference attacks via a crafted assembly-languag...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

CVE-2002-0023

CVE-2002-0023 affects Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0. The vulnerability arises in the GetObject function, where malformed requests can bypass some security checks, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. The connected records confirm the affected products and the vulnerability cla...

Microsoft IIS 3.0/4.0/5.0 - PWS Escaped Characters Decoding Command Execution (4)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2708/info Due to a flaw in the handling of CGI filename program requests, remote users can execute arbitrary commands on an IIS host. When IIS receives a CGI filename request, it automatically performs two actions before completing the request: 1. IIS...