Abusing DLL Misconfigurations — Using Threat Intelligence to Weaponize R&D

DLL Abuse Techniques Overview Dynamic-link library DLL side-loading occurs when Windows Side-by-Side WinSxS manifests are not explicit about the characteristics of DLLs being loaded by a program. In layman’s terms, DLL side-loading can allow an attacker to trick a program into loading a malicious...

SCO Open Server 5.0.6 - recon Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2560/info SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 and possibly earlier versions ships with a suid 'bin' executable called 'recon'. 'recon' is used to buffer and forward escape sequences from a user's input to timing-sensitive applications. 'recon' contains a locally...