Google Adds Control-Flow Integrity to Beef up Android Kernel Security

Google has added a new security feature to the latest Linux kernels for Android devices to prevent it against code reuse attacks that allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by exploiting control-flow hijacking vulnerabilities. In code reuse attacks, attackers exploit memory corruptio...

Google Adds Control-Flow Integrity to Beef up Android Kernel Security

Google has added a new security feature to the latest Linux kernels for Android devices to prevent it against code reuse attacks that allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by exploiting control-flow hijacking vulnerabilities. In code reuse attacks, attackers exploit memory corruptio...

APT15 Pokes Its Head Out With Upgraded MirageFox RAT

The elusive APT15 cyber-espionage group, believed to be affiliated with the Chinese government, has been spotted for the first time in many months, mounting a highly targeted spy campaign using an upgraded version of the Mirage remote access trojan. This is the first evidence of the China-linked...

CVE-2018-4911

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a use after free vulnerability in the JavaScript API related to bookmark functionality. The...

CVE-2018-4910

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a heap overflow vulnerability in the JavaScript engine. The vulnerability is triggered by a PDF file...

How hackers recycle top threats

Developers are known for reusing pieces of code over and over again - after all, if it isn't broke, why fix it? In fact, this is what makes open source programs so popular and valuable - as opposed to having to create completely new code, developers can utilize existing open source code, and can...

CVE-2017-15994

rsync 3.1.3-development before 2017-10-24 mishandles archaic checksums, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. NOTE: the rsync development branch has significant use beyond the rsync developers, e.g., the code has been copied for use in various GitHub...

New COOP Attack Method Highlights Weaknesses In Microsoft's CFG Defenses

Researchers at Endgame have been evaluating an exploitation technique called Counterfeit Object-Oriented Programming COOP to bypass Control Flow Integrity CFI implementations such as that used by Microsoft to harden the defenses of Windows 10. Microsoft added its mitigation, called Control Flow...

Code Reuse a Peril for Secure Software Development

The amount of insecure software tied to reused third-party libraries and lingering in applications long after patches have been deployed is staggering. It’s a habitual problem perpetuated by developers failing to vet third-party code for vulnerabilities, and some repositories taking a hands-off...

Expression Engine 3.4.2: Code Reuse Attack

RIPS Analysis The analysis with RIPS took about 4 minutes. Overall, the code of Expression Engine seems to be very robust. Still our analysis results point out some vulnerabilities. RIPS detected mainly possibilities for a malicious user to embed HTML and JavaScript code via the administration...

Paragon Initiative Enterprises: Incorrect detection of onion URLs

Several places have incorrect code to detect if URL point to .onion domain tor hidden server: The following regexes: 1. ^https://^/:+.onion:?:0-9+ 2. ^https?://^/+.onion which is used in: https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/0e9289553cdc538556d362faaee63be6cc534a0c/src/Engine/Hail.phpL223...

Complex Code Reuse Attacks: ROPMEMU

ROPMEMU is a framework to analyze, dissect and decompile complex code-reuse attacks Talos has developed ROPMEMU, a framework to analyze, dissect and decompile complex code-reuse attacks. It adopts a set of different techniques to analyze ROP chains and reconstruct their equivalent code in a form...

ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer 10.8 Privilege Escalation

ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer v10.8 Date: 2/9/2016 Exploit Author: @GraphX Vendor Homepage: http://www.manageengine.com Version: 10.8 1 Description: It is possible for a remote authenticated attacker using an unprivileged account to gain access to the admin account via parameter manipulation usi...

Virtual Machine Monitors (VMM) contain a memory deduplication vulnerability

Overview Multiple vendors' implementations of Virtual Machine Monitors VMM are vulnerable to a memory deduplication attack. Description As reported in the "Cross-VM ASL INtrospection CAIN" paper, an attacker with basic user rights within the attacking Virtual Machine VM can leverage memory...

JScript 5.7 RegExpBase::FBadHeader Use-After-Free

Recompiling the regular expression pattern during a replace can cause the code to reuse a freed string, but only if the string is freed from the cache by allocating and freeing a number of strings of certain size. CVE-2015-2482: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2482...

D-Link AirPlus DI-614+, DI-624, DI-704 DHCP Log HTML Injection Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10587/info It is reported that the DI-614+, DI-704, and the DI-624 are susceptible to an HTML injection vulnerability in their DHCP log. An attacker who has access to the wireless, or internal network segments of the rout...

D-Link DSL Router Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13679/info Various D-Link DSL routers are susceptible to a remote authentication bypass vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the devices to require authentication in certain circumstances. This vulnerability...

Ricoh Aficio 450/455 PCL Printer Remote ICMP Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11932/info It is reported that Ricoh 450/455 printers are susceptible to a remote denial of service vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the device to properly handle exceptional ICMP packets. Remote attackers...

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.x JavaScript Handler Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19488/info Mozilla Firefox is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. This issue is due to a race condition that may result in double-free or other memory-corruption issues. Attackers may likely exploit this...

emlog code reuse vulnerability, password blasting and other impact-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Brief description: emlog code reuse. You can ignore the CAPTCHA brush comments, ignoring the code to brute force the background. Detailed description: See two days emlog source code is also not white to see it. In the comment when the service side validation of the data code as follows:...