Trojan Source: Hiding malicious code in plain sight

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, have released details of a cunning and insidious new class of software vulnerability that allows attackers to hide code in plain sight, within the source code of computer programs. The techniques demonstrated by the researchers could be used to pois...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (Bamboo) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Bamboo where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These special characters are typically not displayed by the browser or cod...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (Bamboo) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Bamboo where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These special characters are typically not displayed by the browser or cod...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (Fisheye & Crucible) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Fisheye and Crucible where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These special characters are typically not displayed by the...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (JSM Server & Insight asset management App) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Jira Service Management Server / DC and Insight Asset Management app where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These specia...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (JSM Server & Insight asset management App) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Jira Service Management Server / DC and Insight Asset Management app where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These specia...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (Jira Server) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Jira Server / DC where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These special characters are typically not displayed by the...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (Jira Server) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Jira Server / DC where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These special characters are typically not displayed by the...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (Confluence Server) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Confluence Server / DC where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These special characters are typically not displayed by th...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: binutils security update

An update for binutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Unicode characters allow malicious code to be hidden from a human reviewer (Bitbucket Server / DC) - CVE-2021-42574

Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported a vulnerability affecting Bitbucket Server / DC where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These special characters are typically not displayed by the...

LY Corporation: DoS of LINE client for Android via message containing multiple unicode characters (0x0e & 0x0f)

Due to an improper Unicode character processing, the recipient's LINE client for Android may terminate abnormally when an attacker sends large quantities of unicode characters 0x0e and 0x0f characters and the recipient opens the message containing them...

CVE-2020-8929

A mis-handling of invalid unicode characters in the Java implementation of Tink versions prior to 1.5 allows an attacker to change the ID part of a ciphertext, which result in the creation of a second ciphertext that can decrypt to the same plaintext. This can be a problem with encrypting...

Design/Logic Flaw

A mis-handling of invalid unicode characters in the Java implementation of Tink versions prior to 1.5 allows an attacker to change the ID part of a ciphertext, which result in the creation of a second ciphertext that can decrypt to the same plaintext. This can be a problem with encrypting...

CentOS 6 : thunderbird (RHSA-2020:2049)

The remote CentOS Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2049 advisory. - A race condition when running shutdown code for Web Worker led to a use-after-free vulnerability. This resulted in a potentially exploitable crash...

Phishing Attack

thunderbird is vulnerable to phishing attack. The vulnerability exists as the sender Email Address can be spoofed using encoded Unicode characters...

Mozilla: Sender Email Address Spoofing using encoded Unicode characters

By encoding Unicode whitespace characters within the From email header, an attacker can spoof the sender email address that Thunderbird displays. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 68.8.0...

Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 2.0 for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000: July 10, 2007

Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 2.0 for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000: July 10, 2007 INTRODUCTION Microsoft has released security bulletin MS07-040. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This informatio...

Spoofing Attack

firefox is vulnerable to spoofing attacks. A flaw was found in the way Firefox displays certain Unicode characters. An attacker could use this flaw to conceal a malicious URL, possibly tricking a user into believing they are viewing a trusted site...

Arbitrary Code Execution

perl is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. A specially crafted regular expression with Unicode characters could trigger a buffer overflow, causing Perl to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the...