Dowd, Hawkes Win Google Native Client Attack Contest

Mark Dowd and Ben Hawkes, two well-known security researchers, have won a contest put on by Google to find exploitable security flaws in the company’s Native Client system. The pair discovered 12 exploitable issues, seven more than the next most successful team. Dowd, a researcher in IBM ISS’s...

Firefox browser engine crashes

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to 1...

kernel: cifs: memory overwrite when saving nativeFileSystem field during mount

Buffer overflow in fs/cifs/connect.c in CIFS in the Linux kernel 2.6.29 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a long nativeFileSystem field in a Tree Connect response to an SMB mount request...

Memory corruption

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 95 native file format, leading to memory corruption, aka "PP7 Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2009-0227

Stack-based buffer overflow in the PowerPoint 4.2 conversion filter PP4X32.DLL in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of structures in sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format,...

CVE-2009-0226

Stack-based buffer overflow in the PowerPoint 4.2 conversion filter in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, leading to memory...

CVE-2009-1128: Improper Control of Generation of Code

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 95 native file format, leading to memory corruption, aka "PP7 Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2009-0223: Improper Control of Generation of Code

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, leading to memory corruption, aka "Legacy File Format Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2009-1137: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, leading to memory corruption, aka "Legacy File Format Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2009-0222: Improper Control of Generation of Code

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted sound data in a file that uses a PowerPoint 4.0 native file format, leading to a "pointer overwrite" and memory corruption, aka "Legacy File Format Vulnerability," a differen...

Firefox Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.9, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not properly implement the Same Origin Policy for 1 XMLHttpRequest, involving a mismatch for a document's principal, and 2 XPCNativeWrapper.toString, involving an incorrect proto scope, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site...

CVE-2009-0792

Multiple integer overflows in icc.c in the International Color Consortium ICC Format library aka icclib, as used in Ghostscript 8.64 and earlier and Argyll Color Management System CMS 1.0.3 and earlier, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow and...

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software Multiple Features Crafted TCP Sequence Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software Multiple Features Crafted TCP Sequence Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20090325-tcp http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20090325-tcp.shtml Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2009 March 25 1600 UTC...

CVE-2009-0583

Multiple integer overflows in icc.c in the International Color Consortium ICC Format library aka icclib, as used in Ghostscript 8.64 and earlier and Argyll Color Management System CMS 1.0.3 and earlier, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow and...

CVE-2009-0583

Multiple integer overflows in icc.c in the International Color Consortium ICC Format library aka icclib, as used in Ghostscript 8.64 and earlier and Argyll Color Management System CMS 1.0.3 and earlier, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow and...

RedHat Update for mysql RHSA-2008:0364-01

Check for the Version of mysql OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for mysql RHSA-2008:0364-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

Burst a few over-active Defense method-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Generally the Trojan is added from the start is antivirus software active defense, or 3 6 0 intercept,a few days ago in an online found several registry since the start of the method,the effect is also good,can be considered currently active Defense of a large Dead Space,even of micro-point turne...

Google wants to buy Native Client security flaws

Google is indirectly buying security vulnerabilities from the security research community. Under the guise of a Native Client Security Contest, the search engine firm is offering big cash prizes to hackers who find bugs and other security flaws in the open-source research technology for running x...

Firefox JavaScript privilege escalation

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allow remote attackers to run arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors in which "page content can pollute...

Sun Java Calendar Deserialization Privilege Escalation

This module exploits a flaw in the deserialization of Calendar objects in the Sun JVM. The payload can be either a native payload which is generated as an executable and dropped/executed on the target or a shell from within the Java applet in the target browser. The affected Java versions are JDK...