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The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Alongside the bulletin, we have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air OTA update. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site...

Racing MIDI messages in Chrome

This is a guest blog post by Oliver Chang from the Chrome Security team. This post is about an exceptionally bad use after free bug in Chrome’s browser process that affected Linux, Chrome OS and OS X. What makes this bug interesting is the fact that it could be directly triggered from the web...

Integer overflow allocating extremely large textures — Mozilla

Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an integer overflow when when allocating textures of extremely larges sizes during graphics operations. This results in a potentially exploitable crash when triggered...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/appcache/appcacheupdatejob.cc in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.73 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by leveraging the mishandling of AppCache update jobs...

CVE-2015-3336

Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 does not always ask the user before proceeding with CONTENTSETTINGSTYPEFULLSCREEN and CONTENTSETTINGSTYPEMOUSELOCK changes, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service UI disruption by constructing a crafted HTML document containing...

CVE-2015-2238

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 4.1.0.21, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors...

Google Pwnium Program Now Open All Year

Google is expanding its successful Pwnium vulnerability reward program–which has run at various security conferences for a couple of years now–to run continuously and offer an unlimited pool of financial rewards. Pwnium originally was established as an alternative to the Pwn2Own hacking contest a...

CVE-2015-1346

CVE-2015-1346 covers multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 3.30.33.15, used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91. The NVD entry notes potential denial of service or other impact via unknown vectors. Connected sources corroborate Chrome/Chromium lineage and list affected version...

libvpx -- out-of-bounds write

The Mozilla Project reports: Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team found an out-of-bounds write when buffering WebM format video containing frames with invalid tile sizes. This can lead to a potentially exploitable crash...

Out-of-bounds write with WebM video — Mozilla

Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team found an out-of-bounds write when buffering WebM format video containing frames with invalid tile sizes. This can lead to a potentially exploitable crash during WebM video playback...

Google Chrome < 37.0.2062.124 RSA Signature Forgery in NSS

Binary data 8410.pasl...

Firefox 32 Debuts With Public-Key Pinning, Several Security Fixes

Mozilla has released Firefox 32, the latest version of its browser, which now supports public-key pinning and also includes fixes for several critical security vulnerabilities. The move to support public-key pinning is an important one for Firefox, as it helps protect users against...

APPLE-SA-2014-08-13-1 Safari 6.1.6 and Safari 7.0.6

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2014-08-13-1 Safari 6.1.6 and Safari 7.0.6 Safari 6.1.6 and Safari 7.0.6 are now available and address the following: WebKit Available for: OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5, OS X Mavericks v10.9.4 Impact...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-4457)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to the 4.0.1 security release. MFSA 2011-12: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances,...

Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer — Mozilla

Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team discovered a number of use-after-free and out of bounds read issues using the Address Sanitizer tool. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution...

May 2014 Apple Safari Browser Security Patches

Apple released an update to Safari yesterday patching 22 vulnerabilities in the WebKit browser engine that allow code execution or a browser crash. Safari 7.0.4 is available for OS X Mavericks 10.9 and Safari 6.1.4 for OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. The vulnerabilities could be exploited if the user wa...

Use-after-free in the Text Track Manager for HTML video — Mozilla

Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team found a use-after-free in the Text Track Manager while processing HTML video. This was caused by inconsistent garbage collection of Text Track Manager variables and results in a...

Buffer overflow when using non-XBL object as XBL — Mozilla

Security researcher Abhishek Arya Inferno of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a buffer overflow when a script uses a non-XBL object as an XBL object because the XBL status of the object is not properly validated. The resulting memory corruption is...

Chromium / Google Chrome multiple security vulnerabilities

Memory corruprions, information leakage, certificate validation issues, protection bypass, crossite scripting, directory traversal...

EUVD-2013-6470

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 3.24.35.10, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.146, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors...