CVE-2015-7358

The IsDriveLetterAvailable method in Driver/Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, does not properly validate drive letter symbolic links, which allows local users to mount an encrypted volume over an existing drive letter and gain privileges...

Microsoft Windows LNK Shortcut File Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'LNK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability in the handling of Windows Shortcut files .LNK...

Privacy Activists Suffer Legal Setback In National Security Letter Case

Privacy activists suffered a legal blow when a panel of California appeals court judges ruled Monday the Federal Bureau of Investigation could continue its practice of secretly issuing National Security Letter NSL requests for customer data from communications firms. The case involved a challenge...

CURL-CVE-2017-9502 URL file scheme drive letter buffer overflow

When libcurl is given either 1. a file: URL that does not use two slashes following the colon, or 2. is told that file is the default scheme to use for URLs without scheme ... and the given path starts with a drive letter and libcurl is built for Windows or DOS, then libcurl would copy the path...

URL file scheme drive letter buffer overflow

When libcurl is given either 1. a file: URL that does not use two slashes following the colon, or 2. is told that file is the default scheme to use for URLs without scheme ... and the given path starts with a drive letter and libcurl is built for Windows or DOS, then libcurl would copy the path...

EFF Sues DOJ Over National Security Letter Disclosure Rules

The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the United States Department of Justice Wednesday demanding to know whether the agency is complying with rules that mandate a periodic review of National Security Letter gag orders. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...

Apple Receives First National Security Letter

Apple revealed this week that it received a National Security Letter during the last six months of 2016. The news, which came as part of the company’s latest biannual transparency report, marks the first NSL Apple has reported receiving. The iPhone manufacturer released the report via a portal on...

Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in FreeCMS Business Edition Frontend Membership Letter Writer

FreeCMS Business Edition is a java open source CMS that provides a mobile app. FreeCMS commercial version of the front-end members to write letters to the location of a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability, the attacker can be sent to any member or administrator by sending malicious script t...

Panda Driving Letter Android App Has Arbitrary Points Redemption Vulnerability

Panda Driving Letter is a traffic control and travel service software developed by Chengdu Digi Information Technology Co. Panda Driving Letter Android App has an arbitrary points exchange vulnerability. Due to a design flaw in the Panda Driving Letter Android app payment interface, an attacker c...

FDA Demands St. Jude Take Action on Medical Device Security

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday sent Abbott Laboratories a warning letter citing that it had inadequately addressed the security of the maligned Merlin@home Transmitter. The letter promises regulatory action against the healthcare company should vulnerabilities in the device...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

zookeeper is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability is possible because it does not properly handle four letter zookeeper commands such as wchp /wchc/wchc . Therefore, when non-trusted clients get access to the client port i.e., if the zookeeper service is not protected...

CVE-2015-8608

The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 1 drive letter or 2 pInName argument...

CVE-2015-8608

The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 1 drive letter or 2 pInName argument...

CVE-2015-8608

The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 1 drive letter or 2 pInName argument...

Cloudflare Shares National Security Letter It Received in 2013

Thanks to the lifting of a gag order, on Tuesday security firm Cloudflare was finally able to post a National Security Letter it received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation back in 2013. Cloudflare’s counsel Kenneth R. Carter acknowledged the lifting of the order and said the letter is part...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID26768: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on December 6, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 50994 First Published: 2016 December 6 20:46 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID26768 may contain the following files: Name |...

glob parser write/read out of bounds

The curl tool's "globbing" feature allows a user to specify a numerical range through which curl iterates. It is typically specified as 1-5, specifying the first and the last numbers in the range. Or with a-z, using letters. 1. The curl code for parsing the second unsigned number did not check fo...

Google Handles Record Number of Government Requests for Data

Google fielded a record number of government requests for user data during the first half of 2016, according to its updated Transparency Report. It was also able to report that it received at least one National Security Letter during the six months between July and December 2015. “Pursuant to the...

Days thaw letter TopADS index.php parameters templet_name injection vulnerability

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Warrant Canary Database Shuts Down

Warrant canaries aren’t definitive markers that a company has been served with a National Security Letter or some other type of court order mandating that customer information be turned over to a government agency or law enforcement. But oftentimes, they are a strong indicator that something has...