Oracle Reports Developer Version Release 9i to 10gr2 Database Disclosure

An undocumented PARSEQUERY function in Oracle Forms and Reports allows dumping database username and passwords unauthenticated. The patch / workaround just appears to obfuscate the issue but not actually address it. Affected systems include versions 9iAS, 9iDS, 10G DS and AS, and 10G AS...

Snapchat's new Security feature Hacked in 30 Minutes; CAPTCHA Cracking tool published

Snapchat suffered a massive data breach back in December in which 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers were compromised. Earlier this month, the company launched an update to its iOS and Android apps, added a new security measure to ensure that new users aren't spambots or a robot. While signi...

JVN#69986880: OpenPNE vulnerable to PHP Object Injection

OpenPNE contains an issue in processing Cookie headers, which may result in a PHP Object Injection vulnerability. Impact A remote, unauthenticated attacker may execute an arbitrary PHP code. Solution Apply an update Update to the latest version according to the information provided by the...

JVN#49384502: SimZip (Simple Zip Viewer) vulnerable to directory traversal

SimZip Simple Zip Viewer provided by Gapless Player contains an issue in processing file names, which may result in a directory traversal CWE-22 vulnerability. Impact A remote, unauthenticated attacker may create an arbitrary file or overwrite an existing file in a directory that the application...

CVE-2013-0340

expat 2.1.0 and earlier does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

CVE-2013-0339

libxml2 through 2.9.1 does not properly handle external entities expansion unless an application developer uses the xmlSAX2ResolveEntity or xmlSetExternalEntityLoader function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers,...

CVE-2013-5785

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Reports Developer component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.6, 11.1.1.7, and 11.1.2.1 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Security and Authentication...

Authentication flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Reports Developer component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.6, 11.1.1.7, and 11.1.2.1 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Security and Authentication...

Twitter Forces HTTPS Connections to its API

UPDATE: As of yesterday, Twitter’s application programming interface API will only recognize traffic traveling via Transport Layer Security TLS or Secure Sockets Layer SSL. Any applications connecting to the API in plaintext will no longer work. There is a vast selection of third-party Twitter...

CVE-2013-5785

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Reports Developer component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.6, 11.1.1.7, and 11.1.2.1 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Security and Authentication...

Command injection vulnerability in Ruby Gem sprout 0.7.246

Title: Command injection vulnerability in Ruby Gem sprout 0.7.246 Date: 11/14/2013 Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/sprout, http://projectsprouts.org/ Vulnerability: The unpackzip function contains the following code: sprout-0.7.246/lib/sprout/archiveunpacker.rb 60 zipdir =...

[Sandcat Browser 4.4] The fastest web browser combined with the fastest scripting language packed with features for pen-testers

Sandcat Browser is the fastest web browser combined with the fastest scripting language packed with features for pen-testers. Sandcat Browser is a freeware portable pen-test oriented multi-tabbed web browser with extensions support developed by the Syhunt team. The Sandcat Browser is built on top...

Jacob Appelbaum 2013 30c3 keynote on NSA Surveillance

Cryptographer, developer and activist Jacob Appelbaum took to the pages of Germany’s Der Spiegel and the keynote dais of the 30th Chaos Communication Congress this weekend to deliver a damning expose of the catalog of backdoors, monitoring programs and products that potentially have and could be...

JVN#69700259: HP Autonomy Ultraseek vulnerable to cross-site scripting

HP Autonomy Ultraseek provided by Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. contains an issue in handling specific character encoding, which may result in cross-site scripting. Impact An arbitrary script may be executed on the user's Internet Explorer. Solution Update the Software Update the...

Santander BillPay Security Vulnerabilities Patched

Security weaknesses on the Santander Group BillPay website and mobile banking application have been addressed by the financial services organization’s developer Headland after they were exposed less than a week ago. U.K. consultant Paul Moore of Cresona Corp., reported a number of serious...

Debian Announces End of Security Support for IceApe

Developers at Debian today informed users still clinging to Iceape – an Internet suite modeled on old Mozilla code – that they are cutting the cord and will stop supplying the software with security updates. Iceape is more or less a Debian-branded hybrid of several community-driven entities,...

Software defense: mitigating common exploitation techniques

In our previous posts in this series, we described various mitigation improvements that attempt to prevent the exploitation of specific classes of memory safety vulnerabilities such as those that involve stack corruption, heap corruption, and unsafe list management and reference count...

Microsoft Releases December 2013 Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Lync, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Developer Tools as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2013. These vulnerabilities...

Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested object elements — Mozilla

Mozilla security developer Daniel Veditz discovered that restrictions are not applied to an element contained within a sandboxed iframe. This could allow content hosted within a sandboxed iframe to use element to bypass the sandbox restrictions that should be applied...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for December Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its December 2013 release will contain 11 bulletins. These bulletins will have severity ratings of critical and important and will be for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Lync, Internet Explorer, Microsoft...