Pool address predictability creates many problems

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The Aquifer.boreWell function is responsible for creating new Well. This is done using the LibClone.cloneDeterministic function. The address of the new Well depends solely on the salt and/or immutableData parameter provided by the user. Once a user creat...

CVE-2013-6791

EMET (Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) is affected by a ROP/ASLR bypass vulnerability (CVE-2013-6791) where EMET versions before 4.0 store hooked function addresses in a predictable way. This weakness could enable context-dependent attackers to defeat ASLR, as described in source...

kernel: execshield: predictable ascii armour base address

The ExecShield feature in a certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 and 6 and Fedora 15 and 16 does not properly handle use of many shared libraries by a 32-bit executable file, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to bypass the ASLR protecti...