Hacker exploits IE8 on Windows 7 to Win Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER, BC — Jumping through a series of anti-exploit roadblocks, Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil pulled off an impressive CanSecWest Pwn2Own victory here, hacking into a fully patched 64-bit Windows 7 machine using a pair of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. Vreugdenhil, an independent...

Charlie Miller on Mac OS X, Pwn2Own and Writing Exploits

The following is the full transcript of a live Threatpost chat with Charlie Miller, a vulnerability researcher at Independent Security Evaluators. During this session, Miller discussed his approach to finding security flaws, his work on fuzzing applications, his plans for this year’s Pwn2Own hack...

Microsoft Virtual PC Flaw Lets Hackers Bypass Windows Defenses

An exploit writer at Core Security Technologies has discovered a serious vulnerability that exposes users of Microsoft’s Virtual PC virtualization software to malicious hacker attacks. The vulnerability, which is unpatched, essentially allows an attacker to bypass several major security mitigatio...

iDefense Security Advisory 03.09.10: Microsoft Excel Sheet Object Type Confusion Vulnerability

iDefense Security Advisory 03.09.10 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Mar 09, 2010 I. BACKGROUND Excel is the spreadsheet application included with Microsoft Corp.'s Office productivity software suite. More information is available at the following website:...

Green Dam - URL Processing Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

$Id: greendamurl.rb 8762 2010-03-10 05:58:01Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/...

As Memory Protections Advance, Exploits Stay a Step Ahead

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite years of efforts by software security teams at major vendors to harden the operating systems and browsers that are the most common targets of attackers, exploitation of new as well as older vulnerabilities is still simpler than many people might think. Microsoft, Mozilla,...

Google Researcher Ships Exploit to Defeat ASLR+DEP

A prominent security researcher has released an exploit that uses a new technique to defeat ALSR + DEP on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The exploit, released by Google security researcher “SkyLined,” uses the ret-into-libc technique to bypass DEP Data Execution Prevention and launch code...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2009:1438)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

MuPDF pdf_shade4.c multiple stack-based buffer overflows

Description =========== "MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C". It is used in particular by SumatraPDF which is a small open-source PDF viewer for Windows. MuPDF before commit 20091125231942 did not properly handle /Decode arrays in a shading of type 4 to 7, leading...

MuPDF 20091125231942 - pdf_shade4.c Multiple Stack Buffer Overflows

MuPDF 20091125231942 - pdfshade4.c Multiple Stack Buffer Overflows "MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C". It is used in particular by SumatraPDF which is a small open-source PDF viewer for Windows. MuPDF before commit 20091125231942 did not properly handle /Decode...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues, multiple bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel,...

Immunity Canvas: MS09_051

Name| ms09051 ---|--- CVE| CVE-2009-0555 Exploit Pack| CANVAS Description| ASFAudiomedia Parsing bug Notes| CVE Name: CVE-2009-0555 VENDOR: Microsoft MSADV: MS09-051 Repeatability: One Shot MSRC: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-051.mspx Note: This is a client-side exploit ...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : kernel (kernel-6440)

This kernel update for openSUSE 10.3 fixes some bugs and several security problems. The following security issues are fixed: CVE-2009-2692: A missing NULL pointer check in the socket sendpage function can be used by local attackers to gain root privileges. CVE-2009-2406: A kernel stack overflow...

Microsoft SRV2.SYS SMB Negotiate ProcessID Function Table Dereference

$Id$ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Microsoft...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1438)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 21st July 2010 Added links to KBase articles expanding on three...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1438

The remote host is missing updates to the Linux kernel announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1438. This update fixes the following security issues: the ADDRCOMPATLAYOUT and MMAPPAGEZERO flags were not cleared when a setuid or setgid program was executed. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw t...

GemStone/S 6.3.1 (stoned) Local Buffer Overflow Exploit

No description provided by source. / wonderfulcaricatureofexploitability.c AKA GemStone/S 6.3.1 "stoned" Local Buffer Overflow Exploit Jeremy Brown [email protected]//jbrownsec.blogspot.com//krakowlabs.com 09.07.2009 Gemstone/S "stoned" suffers from a local buffer overflow when parsing input...

GemStoneS 6.3.1 - stoned Local Buffer Overflow

GemStoneS 6.3.1 - stoned Local Buffer Overflow / wonderfulcaricatureofexploitability.c AKA GemStone/S 6.3.1 "stoned" Local Buffer Overflow Exploit Jeremy Brown [email protected]//jbrownsec.blogspot.com//krakowlabs.com 09.07.2009 Gemstone/S "stoned" suffers from a local buffer overflow when...

HTMLDOC 1.8.27 - '.html' File Handling Stack Buffer Overflow

/ HTMLDOC 'html' File Handling Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit Linux Reference: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35727 Tested on HTMLDOC 1.8.27 on Debian 5.0 +ASLR Credit: ANTHRAX666 for finding the vulnerability Coded by Pankaj Kohli http://www.pank4j.com pankaj@zion:/test/htmldoc$ cat...