New Internet Explorer Zero Day Used in Targeted Attacks

There’s a new zero-day vulnerability in many of the current versions of Internet Explorer and is being used in active attacks right now. The exploit that’s in use has the ability to bypass both DEP and ASLR and researchers say it’s being used by a known APT group. Microsoft has issued an advisory...

New Zero-Day Vulnerability CVE-2014-1776 Affects all Versions of Internet Explorer Browser

Microsoft confirmed a new Zero Day critical vulnerability in its browser Internet Explorer. Flaw affects all versions of Internet Explorer, starting with IE version 6 and including IE version 11. In a Security Advisory 2963983 released yesterday, Microsoft acknowledges a zero-day Internet Explore...

Apache Struts Zero Day Vulnerability Patch to be Re-Issued

The Apache Software Foundation today released an advisory warning that a patch issued in March for a zero-day vulnerability in Apache Struts did not fully patch the bug in question. Officials said a new patch is in development and will be released likely within the next 72 hours, said Rene Gielen...

Obama Lets NSA Use Zero-Day Exploits by labeling it as 'National Security Need'

On Saturday, the Senior Administration Officials cast light on the subject of Internet Security and said President Obama has clearly decided that whenever the U.S. Intelligence agency like NSA discovers major vulnerabilities, in most of the situations the agency should reveal them rather than...

MS14-017 Microsoft Word RTF Object Confusion Exploit

This Metasploit module creates a malicious RTF file that when opened in vulnerable versions of Microsoft Word will lead to code execution. The flaw exists in how a listoverridecount field can be modified to treat one structure as another. This bug was originally seen being exploited in the wild...

Unpatched Bugs, Windows XP End of Life and Public Disclosure

Windows XP security support ends Tuesday and until now, most of the public hand-wringing over XP’s end-of-life has been about the potential for malware outbreaks against unpatched vulnerabilities that have been stockpiled by hackers anxiously awaiting April 8, 2014. But what about vulnerabilities...

WinRAR Filename Spoofing Exploit

This Metasploit module abuses a filename spoofing vulnerability in WinRAR. The vulnerability exists when opening ZIP files. The file names showed in WinRAR when opening a ZIP file come from the central directory, but the file names used to extract and open contents come from the Local File Header...

Facebook Bug Bounty Submissions Dramatically Increase

Facebook today reported a dramatic increase in 2013 submissions to its bug bounty program, and said that despite reports from researchers that it’s becoming difficult to find severe bugs on its various properties, the social network plans to increase rewards for critical bugs. “The volume of...

VUPEN Security Research - Google Chrome "Clipboard::WriteData()" Function Sandbox Escape (Pwn2Own)

VUPEN Security Research - Google Chrome Clipboard Format Processing Sandbox Escape Pwn2Own Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. Chrome version 28 and beyond uses the WebK...

VUPEN Security Research - Mozilla Firefox "BumpChunk" Object Processing Use-after-free (Pwn2Own)

VUPEN Security Research - Mozilla Firefox "BumpChunk" Object Processing Use-after-free Pwn2Own Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with ...

Word Zero Day Attacks Use Complex Chain of Exploits

The exploit that attackers are using to target a zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Word relies on a complex series of pieces, including an ASLR bypass, ROP techniques and shellcode with several layers of tools designed to detect and defeat analysis. Microsoft officials said the exploit is being...

Microsoft Office memory corruption

Microsoft Word RTF parsing 0-day vulnerability is exploited in-the-wild...

Microsoft Word Zero-Day Vulnerability is being exploited in the Wild

Microsoft warned about a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word that is being actively exploited in targeted attacks and discovered by the Google security team. “At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word 2010…” company said. According to Microsoft's...

Microsoft Advisory Warns of Word Zero-Day Attacks

Targeted attacks have been spotted against a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2010, leading Microsoft to issue a special security advisory and produce a Fix-it solution for users until a patch is ready. Microsoft also said that its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET is a temporar...

ESA-2014-018: EMC Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition Information Disclosure Vulnerability

ESA-2014-018.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2014-018: EMC Connectrix Manager Converged Network Edition Information Disclosure Vulnerability EMC Identifier: ESA-2014-018 CVE Identifier: CVE-2014-2276 Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: CVSS: 5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N...

Firefox 28 Patches Four Pwn2Own Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

The Firefox web browser took a beating during last week’s Pwn2Own contest with researchers bringing four zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits to the table, walking away with a collective $200,000 in prize money in the process. Yesterday, Mozilla capped all four bugs among 18 security advisories...

Full Disclosure Security Mailing List Shuts Down

The Full Disclosure security mailing list, which has been one of the main discussion forums for vulnerability and exploit information for 12 years, is shutting down because “‘one of our own’ would undermine the efforts of the last 12 years”, one of the creators said. John Cartwright, one of the...

China's Keen Team Topples Safari, Flash at Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER – One is the bug hunter, the other the exploit specialist. Fang Jiahong and Liang Chen represented the Keen Team at Pwn2Own on Thursday, starting off the second day of the annual exploit festival with a quick takedown of Apple’s Safari browser. They then wrapped up the contest with a...

IE 11 Stands Up to Pwn2Own Exploit Attempt

VANCOUVER – Successful exploits at the Pwn2Own contest get all the glitz, but the rarities are the exploits that fail. A group of four young South Korean hackers from ASRT, all of them well shy of their thirtieth birthdays, stood in proxy for Jung Hoon Lee. Lee was home fulfilling a military...

Charitable Prelude to Pwn2Own Not Without Its Critics

VANCOUVER – The prelude to the annual Pwn2Own contest between sponsor HP’s Zero Day Initiative and Pwnium contest sponsor Google produced not only zero-day exploits for Internet Explorer and Safari, but some skepticism about whether the exploits and details on the vulnerabilities were held for th...