Rowhammer Hardware Exploit Poses Threat DRAM Memory in Many Laptops, PCs

Software, from web apps, to operating systems to firmware, has been abused and exploited every which way from Sunday for decades by both researchers and attackers. Now, it is hardware’s turn in the spotlight, as researchers have published details of a new method for exploiting a problem with some...

Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges

Rowhammer blog post draft Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, reverse engineer This guest post continues Project Zero’s practice of promoting excellence in security research on the Project Zero blog Overview “Rowhammer” is a problem with some...

Microsoft Windows TrueType Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a popular operating system. A security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 'Win32k.sys' handling TrueType fonts allows attackers to exploit the vulnerability to construct malicious fonts that can be tricked into parsing by the user, which can elevate privileges to execute...

AVG Internet Security Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

AVG Internet Security is an Internet security suite that includes antivirus, antispyware, antispam, link scanning and firewall. AVG Internet Security suffers from an elevation of privilege vulnerability, which can be exploited by a local attacker to write arbitrary files to enforce kernel-level...

CVE-2014-8956

Stack-based buffer overflow in the K7Sentry.sys kernel mode driver aka K7AV Sentry Device Driver before 12.8.0.119, as used in multiple K7 Computing products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2014-7136

Heap-based buffer overflow in the K7FWFilt.sys kernel mode driver aka K7Firewall Packet Driver before 14.0.1.16, as used in multiple K7 Computing products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via a crafted parameter in a DeviceIoControl API call...

Stack overflow

Stack-based buffer overflow in the K7Sentry.sys kernel mode driver aka K7AV Sentry Device Driver before 12.8.0.119, as used in multiple K7 Computing products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2014-8956

Stack-based buffer overflow in the K7Sentry.sys kernel mode driver aka K7AV Sentry Device Driver before 12.8.0.119, as used in multiple K7 Computing products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via unspecified vectors...

Faronics Deep Freeze Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Faronics Deep Freeze Standard and Enterprise suffers from an arbitrary code execution vulnerability. Vulnerability title: Arbitrary Code Execution In Faronics Deep Freeze Standard and Enterprise CVE: CVE-2014-2382 Vendor: Faronics Product: Deep Freeze Standard and Enterprise Affected version:...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7155

The x86emulate function in arch/x86/x86emulate/x86emulate.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly check supervisor mode permissions, which allows local HVM users to cause a denial of service guest crash or gain guest kernel mode privileges via vectors involving an 1 HLT, 2 LGDT, 3 LIDT, or 4...

CVE-2014-7155

The x86emulate function in arch/x86/x86emulate/x86emulate.c in Xen 4.4.x and earlier does not properly check supervisor mode permissions, which allows local HVM users to cause a denial of service guest crash or gain guest kernel mode privileges via vectors involving an 1 HLT, 2 LGDT, 3 LIDT, or 4...

PT-2014-1973

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Intel Ethernet diagnostics driver versions prior to 1.3.1.0 Description The Intel Ethernet diagnostics driver contains a flaw due to insufficient input validation when processing IOCTL calls 0x80862013, 0x8086200B, 0x8086200F, 0x80862007...

Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (2914368)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-002 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbmicrosoftsecurityadvisory2914486.nasl 6115 2017-05-12 09:03:25Z teissa $ Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2914368 Authors: Shashi Kiran N Updated...

USN-1941-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Chanam Park reported a Null pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-1059 Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows for privilege escalation. A local user could...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1934-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-quantal USN-1931-1

Check for the Version of linux-lts-quantal OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN19311.nasl 8672 2018-02-05 16:39:18Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-quantal USN-1931-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1932-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities (USN-1931-1)

Chanam Park reported a NULL pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-1059 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtai...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1913-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1912-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...