Comodo's so-called 'Secure Internet Browser' Comes with Disabled Security Features

Beware Comodo Users! Have you Safeguarded your PC with a Comodo Antivirus? Then you need to inspect your system for privacy and security concerns. First of all, make sure whether your default browser had been changed to "Chromodo" -- a free browser offered by Comodo Antivirus. If your head nod is...

Synactis PDF In-The-Box ConnectToSynactic Stack Buffer Overflow

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Synactis PDF In-The-Box - ConnectToSynactic Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

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 HttpClients::IE,...

Synactis PDF In-The-Box ConnectToSynactic Stack Buffer Overflow

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability found in Synactis' PDF In-The-Box ActiveX component, specifically PDFIN1.ocx. When a long string of data is given to the ConnectToSynactis function, which is meant to be used for the ldCmdLine argument of a WinExec call, a strcpy routine can end up...

Synactis PDF In-The-Box ConnectToSynactic Stack Buffer Overflow

This module exploits a vulnerability found in Synactis' PDF In-The-Box ActiveX component, specifically PDFIN1.ocx. When a long string of data is given to the ConnectToSynactis function, which is meant to be used for the ldCmdLine argument of a WinExec call, a strcpy routine can end up overwriting...

Million ASP.Net web sites affected with mass SQL injection attack

Million ASP.Net web sites affected with mass SQL injection attack Hackers are in the midst of a massively successful SQL injection attack targeting websites built on Microsoft's ASP.Net platform. About 180,000 pages have been affected so far, security researchers say. Attackers have planted...

Check Your Defaults

From the Advanced category, click on the General tab and make sure your browser defaults are properly set. Some malicious programs change browser start-up defaults without your knowledge so we recommend that you always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup. You should also...

Null pointer dereference

The DebugDiag ActiveX control in CrashHangExt.dll, possibly 1.0, in Microsoft Debug Diagnostic Tool allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and Internet Explorer 6.0 crash via a large negative integer argument to the GetEntryPointForThread method. NOTE: this...

Remote code execution

The Chilkat XML ChilkatUtil.CkData.1 ActiveX control ChilkatUtil.dll 3.0.3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to create, overwrite, and modify arbitrary files for execution via a call to the 1 SaveToFile, 2 SaveToTempFile, or 3 AppendBinary method. NOTE: this issue might only be exploitable in...

firefox & mozilla -- command line URL shell command injection

A Secunia Advisory reports: Peter Zelezny has discovered a vulnerability in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to the shell script used to launch Firefox parsing shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in th...

Standalone applications can run arbitrary code through the browser — Mozilla

Several media players, for example Flash and QuickTime, support scripted content with the ability to open URLs in the default browser. The default behavior for Firefox was to replace the currently open browser window's content with the externally opened content. If the external URL was a...

javascript: links in Thunderbird launch Internet Explorer — Mozilla

Clicking on javascript: links in Thunderbird launched the default handler for that scheme registered with the OS. On the Windows operating system Internet Explorer is the default handler for the javascript: scheme even when Firefox is the default browser...