urllib2): Improper management of ftp:// and file:// URL schemes (Issue #11662)

The urllib and urllib2 modules in Python 2.x before 2.7.2 and 3.x before 3.2.1 process Location headers that specify redirection to file: URLs, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service resource consumption via a crafted URL, as...

Apple Releases iOS 4.3.3, Addressing Location-Tracking Concerns

Apple has released iOS 4.3.3, a firmware update for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that, among other things, fixes the controversial issues surrounding the location tracking capabilities of those devices. The firmware update is Apple’s response to the outcry that erupted last month when a pair o...

Bin Laden's Hideout On Google The Whole Time?

UPDATED: Osama bin Laden may have been the U.S.’s most wanted fugitive for the last decade, but his comfortable mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan was there for all to see – providing they had Google Earth and knew where to look. In the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama’s surprise...

Microsoft Excel - Axis Properties Record Parsing Buffer Overflow (PoC) (MS11-02)

""" This is a PoC for MS11-021/CVE-2011-0978 Microsoft Office Excel Axis Properties Record Parsing Buffer Overflow w3bd3vilatgmaildot.com twitter.com/w3bd3vil Modify bits at file location 0x39E7 0:000:x86 r eax=04dd6380 ebx=ffff5554 ecx=04ab5108 edx=00000000 esi=04ab4800 edi=ffff5554 eip=2f36a2fd...

South Park: Apple's Tracking Me, Dude!

Apple may be trying to change the spin on its controversial location tracking, err…harvesting feature. The company issued a FAQ this week and pulled CEO Steve Jobs off of medical leave to argue the company’s case and quell concerns about the little known feature that include calls for an...

Congress to Apple: You Got Some Splainin to do

In a letter to the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Jay Inslee D-Wash. expressed concerns regarding recent revelations that Apple products have been continuously tracking and recording user location information with questionable consent and without an easy way to opt out of such tracking...

Apple Admits to Bugs, Denies Tracking iPhone Users

Apple finally sounded off on its phone tracking imbroglio on Wednesday telling iPhone customers that “it’s the location, stupid.” The company claims its tracking feature is designed to collect data on cell towers and wifi hotspots, not users. After more than a week of silence, the notoriously...

Users File Suit Against Apple Over iPhone Tracking

A pair of Apple customers has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that Apple is invading their privacy by collecting location data about iPhone and iPad users without their knowledge. The suit follows the revelation last week by security researchers that Apple is collecting and storing...

Report: iPhones Track Movement Even With Location Services Disabled

The ongoing controversy over a hidden feature in Apple iPhones that tracks and stores the whereabouts of the phone became a bit murkier, after an analysis by the Wall Street Journal found that Apple may not be abiding by its own user privacy agreement by continuing to track its customers’...

Synergy Detection (Windows SMB Login)

Detects the installed version of Synergy. The script logs in via smb, searches for Synergy in the registry and gets the version from registry. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right...

Congressman Calls on Apple to Explain iPhone Tracking

Congress stepped into the brewing controversy over a recently disclosed tracking feature in most versions of Apple’s popular iPhone. Representative Ed Markey D-Mass has written a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking for more information about the feature PDF, suggesting that it may run afoul of...

USN-1118-1: OpenSLP vulnerability

It was discovered that OpenSLP incorrectly handled certain corrupted messages. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet to the OpenSLP server and cause it to hang, leading to a denial of service...

Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Reader and HIS

Microsoft Reader is a PC/tablet software for reading the ebooks in LIT format and the Audible audio books. The following are a couple of integer overflows, an heap and an array indexing overflow and the writing of a NULL byte in an arbitrary memory location: http://aluigi.org/adv/msreader1-adv.tx...

Pandora Mobile App Transmits Gobs Of Personal Data

A popular free mobile application from online music service Pandora.com that is the subject of a Grand Jury investigation into loose data privacy practices in the mobile application market confirms that the application silently sends reams of sensitive data to advertisers. The analysis was...

UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1185

Google Chrome before 10.0.648.127 does not prevent 1 navigation and 2 close operations on the top location of a sandboxed frame, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors...

CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2010:0966 centos4 i386

Check for the Version of firefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2010:0966 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

Microsoft Internet Explorer - MHTML Protocol Handler Cross-Site Scripting

Microsoft Internet Explorer - MHTML Protocol Handler Cross-Site Scripting Hacking with mhtml protocol handler Author: www.80vul.com Email:5up3rh3igmail.com Release Date: 2011/1/15 References: http://www.80vul.com/mhtml/Hacking%20with%20mhtml%20protocol%20handler.txt Ph4nt0m Webzine 0x05...

RealNetworks RealPlayer Code Execution

Written by Sean de Regge seanderegge hotmail.com Exploit for the parameter injection bug in Realplayers RecordClip activeX function and firefox plugin http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-211/ C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer\RecordingManager.exe has 2 interesting switches: /t will...

27C3: GSM cell phones even easier to tap !

At the 27th Chaos Communication Congress 27C3 hacker conference, security researchers demonstrated how open source software on a number of revamped, entry-level cell phones can decrypt and record mobile phone calls in the GSM network. Using a normal laptop and a homemade monitoring device, team...

CVE-2010-4158

The skrunfilter function in net/core/filter.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not check whether a certain memory location has been initialized before executing a 1 BPFSLDMEM or 2 BPFSLDXMEM instruction, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stac...