Race you to the kernel!

Posted by Ian Beer of Google Project Zero The OS X and iOS kernel code responsible for loading a setuid root binary invalidates the old task port after first swapping the new virtual memory map pointer into the old task object, leaving a short race window where you can manipulate the memory of an...

openssh: missing sanitisation of input for X11 forwarding

It was discovered that the OpenSSH server did not sanitize data received in requests to enable X11 forwarding. An authenticated client with restricted SSH access could possibly use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions...

Google Android N Preview — 6 Cool Features That You Should Know

Android N Developer Preview, an early beta of Google’s new mobile operating system that was expected to launch on Google I/O in mid-May, is unexpectedly launching right now. Android N Developer Preview for the Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Pixel C Nexus 9, the Nexus Player and the General Mobile 4...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Hidden Browser Window Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create an invisible browser window on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201603-01

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201603-01 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription...

Microsoft Edge Security Mechanism Bypass Vulnerability

Microsoft Edge is a web browser developed by Microsoft USA and is the default browser that comes with the Windows 10 operating system. A security mechanism bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Edge mishandles exceptions during window-message dispatch operations, allowing remote attackers to...

Security feature bypass

Microsoft Edge mishandles exceptions during window-message dispatch operations, which allows remote attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted web site, aka "Microsoft Edge ASLR Bypass."...

CVE-2016-0080

Microsoft Edge mishandles exceptions during window-message dispatch operations, which allows remote attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted web site, aka "Microsoft Edge ASLR Bypass."...

CVE-2016-0080: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Microsoft Edge mishandles exceptions during window-message dispatch operations, which allows remote attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted web site, aka "Microsoft Edge ASLR Bypass."...

CVE-2016-0812

The interceptKeyBeforeDispatching function in policy/src/com/android/internal/policy/impl/PhoneWindowManager.java in Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G and 6.0 before 2016-02-01 does not properly check for setup completion, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the...

UEFI firmware image viewer and editor: UEFITool

It supports parsing of full BIOS images starting with the flash descriptor or any binary files containing UEFI volumes. Original development was started here at MDL forums as a cross-platform analog to PhoenixTool ‘s structure mode with some additional features, but the program’s engine was prove...

OpenJDK: incorrect boundary check in JPEG decoder (AWT, 8139017)

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the JPEG image format decoder in the AWT component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted JPEG image could cause a Java application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox...

OpenJDK: incorrect boundary check in JPEG decoder (AWT, 8139017)

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the JPEG image format decoder in the AWT component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted JPEG image could cause a Java application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox...

OpenJDK: incorrect boundary check in JPEG decoder (AWT, 8139017)

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the JPEG image format decoder in the AWT component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted JPEG image could cause a Java application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox...

Not All PVS Servers Showing On The Replication Status Window

The PVS farm shows all PVS servers under the Servers node. However, when you click Show Replication Status ofthe vDisk does not show all PVS serverslisted. The other servers have the vDisk files .vhd, .pvp but do not show up in the list...

OpenJDK: incorrect boundary check in JPEG decoder (AWT, 8139017)

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the JPEG image format decoder in the AWT component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted JPEG image could cause a Java application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1908

The client in OpenSSH before 7.2 mishandles failed cookie generation for untrusted X11 forwarding and relies on the local X11 server for access-control decisions, which allows remote X11 clients to trigger a fallback and obtain trusted X11 forwarding privileges by leveraging configuration issues ...

PT-2016-4999 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.3.5 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a divide-by-zero error and system crash, via crafted TCP traffic. This is due to a problem in the tcp cwnd reductio...

Picture Window Pro Handles Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in PCX Pictures

Picture Window Pro is an image processing software. Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities exist when dealing with the PCX format, which can be exploited by attackers to construct malformed PCX images and crash the program. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libssh2 on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

A flaw was found in the way the kexagreemethods function of libssh2 performed a key exchange when negotiating a new SSH session. A man-in-the- middle attacker could use a crafted SSHMSGKEXINIT packet to crash a connecting libssh2 client. CVE-2015-1782 This update also fixes the following bugs : -...