Recursive eval call causes confirm dialogs to evaluate to true — Mozilla

Security researcher Zach Hoffman reported that a recursive call to eval wrapped in a try/catch statement places the browser into a inconsistent state. Any dialog box opened in this state is displayed without text and with non-functioning buttons. Closing the window causes the dialog to evaluate t...

Mozilla Releases Updates for Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.14 and Firefox 3.5.17 to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, conduct cross-site request forgery attacks, cause a denial-of-service condition, or operate with elevat...

Microsoft Windows SMB mrxsmb.sys Remote Heap Overflow (CVE-2011-0654)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the Microsoft Windows Server Message Block SMB implementation. The SMB Protocol is a network file sharing protocol that is implemented in Microsoft Windows. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability to create a denial of service...

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities (Feb 2011) - Windows

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Adobe Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities (Feb 2011) - Linux

Adobe Reader is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobatreader";...

Microsoft Kerberos Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (2496930)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS11-013. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodms11-013.nasl 5362 2017-02-20 12:46:39Z cfi $ Microsoft Kerberos Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities 2496930 Authors: Antu Sanadi Updated by: Antu Sanadi on 2011-03-17...

Microsoft Releases February Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2011. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain...

Opera < 11.01 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Web pages can gain limited access to files on the user’s computer – Opera Security Advisories

Web pages can gain limited access to files on the user’s computer – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | January 25, 2011 Severity High Description Certain types of HTTP responses and redirections can cause Opera to mistakenly give elevated privileges to remote web pages. These pages can then u...

Web pages can gain limited access to files on the user's computer

Certain types of HTTP responses and redirections can cause Opera to mistakenly give elevated privileges to remote web pages. These pages can then use their elevated privileges to load files from the user's computer as web page resources. This may allow scraping of potentially sensitive informatio...

Mono/Moonlight Generic Type Argument - Privilege Escalation

Sources: https://www.chrishowie.com/2010/11/24/mutable-strings-in-mono/ https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45051/info Mono and Moonlight is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Successful...

Mono/Moonlight Local Privilege Escalation

Mono and Moonlight is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Successful exploits will compromise the affected application and possibly the underlying computer. PoC: using System; using...

MonoMoonlight Generic Type Argument - Privilege Escalation

MonoMoonlight Generic Type Argument - Privilege Escalation Sources: https://www.chrishowie.com/2010/11/24/mutable-strings-in-mono/ https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45051/info Mono and Moonlight is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to...

Microsoft Releases December Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, SharePoint, and Exchange as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, operate with elevated...

VMware Products Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (Linux)

The host is installed with VMWare products multiple local privilege escalation Vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbvmwareprdtsmultlocprevesclvulnlin.nasl 5388 2017-02-21 15:13:30Z teissa $ VMware Products Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Linux Authors: Antu Sanad...

VMware Products Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Windows)

The host is installed with VMWare products tools local privilege escalation vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbvmwareprdtstoolslocprevesclvulnwin.nasl 5388 2017-02-21 15:13:30Z teissa $ VMware Products Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Windows Authors: Antu Sanadi...

WordPress Releases Version 3.0.3

WordPress has released WordPress 3.0.3 to address a vulnerability. Execution of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to operate with elevated privileges. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the WordPress Codex document for version 3.0.3 and apply any necessary updates to hel...

Java security bypass from LiveConnect loaded via data: URL meta refresh — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported that when a Java LiveConnect script was loaded via a data: URL which redirects via a meta refresh, then the resulting plugin object was created with the wrong security principal and thus received elevated privileges such as the abilities to read loca...

Researchers Bypass Internet Explorer Protected Mode

A new paper from researchers at Verizon Business identifies a method through which an attacker can bypass Internet Explorer Protected Mode and gain elevated privileges once he’s successfully exploited a bug on the system. Protected Mode in Internet Explorer is one of a handful of key security...