Dan Kaminsky on VENOM

Dennis Fisher talks with Dan Kaminsky about the VENOM bug, the value of virtual machine escapes, why everyone wants to make every bug the worst one of all time or just a bunch of hype and what the Avengers have to do with vulnerability disclosure. Download: digitalunderground202.mp3 Music by Chri...

Flaw in Virtualization Software Could Lead to VM Escapes, Data Theft

Researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in an obscure component of many virtualization platforms that they say can allow an attacker to escape from a guest virtual machine and gain code execution on the host, as well as any other VMs operating on that machine. Experts say the bug affects a wid...

Earn up to $15,000 for Hacking Microsoft Spartan Browser

If you’re a bug hunter and love playing with codes than you could grab as much as US$15,000 from Microsoft for finding out vulnerabilities in its latest Project Spartan browser. Yes, $15,000! It seems like Redmond don’t want to take a chance to let hackers and cyber criminals get their hands on t...

Default Setting in Windows 7, 8.1 Could Allow Privilege Escalation

A default setting in both Windows 7 and 8.1 could allow local users to elevate privileges and in some situations, escape application sandboxes. The issue, something that leaves all current Windows client installations vulnerable, lies in the way the operating system handles authentication. In som...

HP's Zero Day Initiative Changes Bug-Buying Guidelines

HP’s Zero Day Initiative has decided to adjust its guidelines and criteria or buying some vulnerabilities in the future, eliminating some large classes of bugs from its menu. The group, which has been among the more visible and prominent of the vulnerability purchasing programs since its inceptio...

Project Zero Patch Tuesday roundup, November 2014

Posted by Chris Evans, Registrar of Bugs It’s been about a week since Patch Tuesday, and the Project Zero reports mentioned in the various advisories are now public. We won’t always be writing a Patch Tuesday roundup, but we often will when we believe there is a sufficiently varied and interestin...

NIST Publishes Draft Hypervisor Security Guide

NIST has followed up a three-year-old virtualization security guide with recommendations for hypervisor security. A draft version of SP800-125a was released this week and a public comment period opened on Monday and ends Nov. 10. The guide targets enterprise security and IT management as well dat...

More Mac OS X and iPhone sandbox escapes and kernel bugs

Posted by Ian Beer A couple of weeks ago Apple released OS X 10.9.5 and iOS 8 which fixed a number of sandbox escapes and privilege escalation bugs found by Project Zero. All-bar-one of these bugs were found via manual source code auditing where there was source and binary analysis where there...

Mac OS X and iPhone sandbox escapes

Posted by Chris Evans, Finder of None Of These As part of our launch manifesto, we committed to openness and transparency, including sharing full details of our research. About a month ago, Apple released two security advisories which fixed some Project Zero findings. Today, we’re releasing the...

openSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2014:0327-1)

Chromium was updated to 33.0.1750.117 Stable channel update : - Security Fixes : - CVE-2013-6653: Use-after-free related to web contents - CVE-2013-6654: Bad cast in SVG - CVE-2013-6655: Use-after-free in layout - CVE-2013-6656: Information leak in XSS auditor - CVE-2013-6657: Information leak in...

MGASA-2014-0107 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages address multiple vulnerabilities

Use-after-free related to web contents CVE-2013-6653. Bad cast in SVG CVE-2013-6654. Use-after-free in layout CVE-2013-6655. Information leaks in XSS auditor CVE-2013-6656, CVE-2013-6657. Use-after-free in layout CVE-2013-6658. Issue with certificates validation in TLS handshake CVE-2013-6659...

FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (9dd47fa3-9d53-11e3-b20f-00262d5ed8ee)

Google Chrome Releases reports : 28 security fixes in this release, including : - 334897 High CVE-2013-6652: Issue with relative paths in Windows sandbox named pipe policy. Credit to tyranid. - 331790 High CVE-2013-6653: Use-after-free related to web contents. Credit to Khalil Zhani. - 333176 Hig...

Two High-Risk Flaws Fixed in Google Chrome 23

Google has fixed two bugs in its Chrome browser, including a high-severity vulnerability in its media handler that a researcher named Pinkie Pie discovered. The bug, which is different from another use-after-free vulnerability the researcher used in the Pwnium contest at Hack in the Box in Octobe...

Slackware Advisory SSA:2004-133-01 apache

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2004-133-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: esoftslkssa200413301.nasl 6598 2017-07-07 09:36:44Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from the corresponding slackware advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012...

Google Chrome Goes Down in Early Stage of Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER–A group of researchers from VUPEN, a French security firm, was able to compromise Google Chrome in the initial stages of the Pwn2Own contest. But because of the new rules this year, that doesn’t guarantee them a win in the contest. Rather, it just gives them a nice head start. The...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2010-1885

The MPC::HexToNum function in helpctr.exe in Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 does not properly handle malformed escape sequences, which allows remote attackers to bypass the trusted documents whitelist fromHCP option and execute arbitrary commands...

Design/Logic Flaw

The command line interface in Overland Storage Snap Server 410 with GuardianOS 5.1.041 runs the "less" utility with a higher-privileged uid than the CLI user and without sufficient restriction on shell escapes, which allows local users to gain privileges using the "!" character within less to...

CVE-2009-4607

The command line interface in Overland Storage Snap Server 410 with GuardianOS 5.1.041 runs the "less" utility with a higher-privileged uid than the CLI user and without sufficient restriction on shell escapes, which allows local users to gain privileges using the "!" character within less to...

CVE-2009-4607

The command line interface in Overland Storage Snap Server 410 with GuardianOS 5.1.041 runs the "less" utility with a higher-privileged uid than the CLI user and without sufficient restriction on shell escapes, which allows local users to gain privileges using the "!" character within less to...

Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-1776 (jhead)

The remote host is missing an update to jhead announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-1776. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...