Exploits for Two-Year-Old PHP Security Vulnerability Found

Close to two years ago, a serious vulnerability in PHP was accidentally disclosed after it was discovered months prior during a hacking contest. A patch was released in relatively short order, and one would assume that given PHP’s prevalence as a web development framework, the fix would have been...

Oracle Linux 5 : samba (ELSA-2014-0305)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0305 advisory. - Security Release, fixes CVE-2013-0213 and CVE-2013-4124 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security...

Browser Bugs, BIOS and Brokers dominate CanSecWest, Pwn2Own

Browsers, brokers and BIOS: you could safely call that triumvirate the past, present and future of security, but you’d be wrong. If last week’s CanSecWest conference, and Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests are indeed a point-in-time snapshot of the technical side of information security, then after last...

Google Patches Four Pwn2Own Bugs in Chrome 33

Now that the dust has settled after the Pwn2Own contest, the browser manufacturers are beginning to roll out patches for the vulnerabilities exploited by contestants. Google on Monday released fixes for a number of bugs in Chrome discovered and exploited during Pwn2Own, releasing new versions of...

Charitable Prelude to Pwn2Own Not Without Its Critics

VANCOUVER – The prelude to the annual Pwn2Own contest between sponsor HP’s Zero Day Initiative and Pwnium contest sponsor Google produced not only zero-day exploits for Internet Explorer and Safari, but some skepticism about whether the exploits and details on the vulnerabilities were held for th...

Weak Early Random PRNG Threatens iOS 7 Kernel Mitigations

VANCOUVER – A revamped early random number generator in iOS 7 is weaker than its vulnerable predecessor and generates predictable outcomes. A researcher today at CanSecWest said an attacker could brute force the Early Random PRNG used by Apple in its mobile operating system to bypass a number of...

Vupen Cashes in Four Times at Pwn2Own 2014

VANCOUVER – It’s become a familiar walk for Chaouki Bekrar. Year after year at the Pwn2Own contest, the controversial Vupen founder is scurried from a small room in the basement of the Sheraton hotel to a suite several floors above. It’s a short journey from where a string of zero-day exploits ar...

Google Fixes Four High-Risk Flaws in Chrome Before Pwn2Own

Google has fixed several serious security vulnerabilities in Chrome 33, just ahead of the Pwn2Own hacking competition at CanSecWest this week, which surely will reveal several more new bugs in the browser. The company’s Chrome browser is always at the top of the target list for contestants in...

HP Systems Insight Manager < 7.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of HP Systems Insight Manager installed on the remote Windows host is affected by vulnerabilities in the included Flash components. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid72963;...

Microsoft DirectShow CVE-2014-0301 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft DirectShow is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application that uses DirectShow. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition...

PREC Tool prevents Android Device from Root Exploit hidden in Malicious apps

Smartphones are always ready to connect to the Internet and contains sensitive information such as Contacts, SMS, Photos, and GPS information and this sensitive information is always in danger of leakage. According to a report, Cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers are developing 55,000 new...

KLA10588 Multiple vulnerabilities in Wireshark

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark. By exploiting these vulnerabilities malicious users can cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely via a specially designed packet trace. Original advisories WNPA advisory Exploitation...

Four Oracle Demantra Security Vulnerabilities Found

Oracle’s Demantra, part of the company’s Value Chain Planning suite of software, is fraught with vulnerabilities according to several bug disclosures issued over the weekend. Researchers at the London-based computer security firm Portcullis claim the application is plagued by a four vulnerabiliti...

Microsoft EMET 5.0 Technical Preview Released

SAN FRANCISCO – Enterprises beat up by wave after wave of Java exploits and calls to disable the platform may soon have some relief in sight. Microsoft’s free Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit will soon have a new feature that allows users to configure where plug-ins, especially those target...

ATutor - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

ATutor - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting HTML Injection Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65744/info ATutor is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a HTML-injection vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow attacker-supplied HTML and script code to...

ATutor - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting / HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65744/info ATutor is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a HTML-injection vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow attacker-supplied HTML and script code to run in the context of the affected browser, potentially allowing the...

Interpretation of the Bible – exploits the intermediate level skills of analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Inscription: From the last update feel has been a long, long time, and what time less are excuses himself becomes the lazy's true, give us an apology, after the update will speed up, today do not speak the vulnerability analysis, with me to discuss the exploits of some of the principles on the...

Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities (Feb 2014) - Mac OS X

Mozilla Thunderbird is prone to multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 =...

Confirmed: Samsung Galaxy S5 has a Fingerprint Scanner

After the huge success of Samsung galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Tablets, the world’s most successful Android manufacturer is going to reveal its brand new Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S5 next week at Mobile World. Early in 2014, rumors suggested that Samsung Galaxy S5 will have Fingerprin...

[Rootkit Hunter] Scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9%* you're clean of nasty tools

Rootkit scanner is scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9% you're clean of nasty tools. This tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and local exploits by running tests like: - MD5 hash compare - Look for default files used by rootkits - Wrong file permissions for binaries - Look for suspected...