Examining Pointer Authentication on the iPhone XS

Posted by Brandon Azad, Project Zero In this post I examine Apple's implementation of Pointer Authentication on the A12 SoC used in the iPhone XS, with a focus on how Apple has improved over the ARM standard. I then demonstrate a way to use an arbitrary kernel read/write primitive to forge kernel...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3874-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3874-1 advisory. Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacke...

USN-3874-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, gain additional privileges by escaping the sandbox, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-18500,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18506

When proxy auto-detection is enabled, if a web server serves a Proxy Auto-Configuration PAC file or if a PAC file is loaded locally, this PAC file can specify that requests to the localhost are to be sent through the proxy to another server. This behavior is disallowed by default when a proxy is...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

sssd is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists as a memory leak in the Privilege Attribute Certificate PAC responder plugin sssdpacplugin.so in System Security Services Daemon SSSD 1.10 before 1.13.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

libproxy is vulnerable to denial of service. A heap-based buffer overflow in the pxpacreload function in lib/pac.c when downloading proxy auto-configuration PAC files allows a remote attacker to crash the application or possibly execute arbitrary code by hosting a server that serves a malicious P...

CVE-2018-17191

Apache NetBeans incubating 9.0 NetBeans Proxy Auto-Configuration PAC interpretation is vulnerable for remote command execution RCE. Using the nashorn script engine the environment of the javascript execution for the Proxy Auto-Configuration leaks privileged objects, that can be used to circumvent...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17191

Apache NetBeans incubating 9.0 NetBeans Proxy Auto-Configuration PAC interpretation is vulnerable for remote command execution RCE. Using the nashorn script engine the environment of the javascript execution for the Proxy Auto-Configuration leaks privileged objects, that can be used to circumvent...

CVE-2018-17191

The vulnerability concerns Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 with NetBeans Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) interpretation, which is vulnerable to remote command execution (RCE). The root cause, as described in the sources, is the use of the Nashorn JavaScript engine during PAC processing, which lea...

CVE-2018-17191

Apache NetBeans incubating 9.0 NetBeans Proxy Auto-Configuration PAC interpretation is vulnerable for remote command execution RCE. Using the nashorn script engine the environment of the javascript execution for the Proxy Auto-Configuration leaks privileged objects, that can be used to circumvent...

Stack overflow

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Opto 22 PAC Control Basic and PAC Control Professional versions R10.0a and prior may allow remote code execution...

CVE-2018-14807

CVE-2018-14807 affects Opto 22 PAC Control Basic and PAC Control Professional (versions R10.0a and prior). The vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow in the control software that may allow remote code execution. Affected products include PAC Control Basic and PAC Control Professional; the...

Pangu Hackers have Jailbroken iOS 12 on Apple's New iPhone XS

Bad news for Apple. The Chinese hacking team Pangu is back and has once again surprised everyone with a jailbreak for iOS 12 running on the brand-new iPhone XS. Well, that was really fast. Pangu jailbreak team has been quiet for a while, since it last released the untethered jailbreak tool for iO...

Pangu Hackers have Jailbroken iOS 12 on Apple's New iPhone XS

Bad news for Apple. The Chinese hacking team Pangu is back and has once again surprised everyone with a jailbreak for iOS 12 running on the brand-new iPhone XS. Well, that was really fast. Pangu jailbreak team has been quiet for a while, since it last released the untethered jailbreak tool for iO...

The vulnerability of the PAC Control Basic and PAC Control Professional industrial automation software, caused by buffer overflow in the stack, allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the PAC Control Basic and PAC Control Professional industrial automation software arises due to a buffer overflow in the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code...

Opto 22 PAC Control Basic and PAC Control Professional

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.4 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Opto 22 Equipment: PAC Control Basic and PAC Control Professional Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could crash the device...

Google Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Bugs in Android OS

Google issued 44 patches for its Android operating system as part of its July Security Bulletin this week. Of those vulnerabilities, 11 were rated critical and the remainder were rated high in severity. The vulnerabilities varied from OS framework to Media framework bugs, including system and...

Firewall and Privatizing Proxy: macOS Fortress

macOS-Fortress is a Firewall, Blackhole, and Privatizing Proxy for Trackers, Attackers, Malware, Adware, and Spammers. It is Kernel-level, OS-level, and client-level security for macOS. Built to address a steady stream of attacks visible on snort and server logs, as well as blocks ads, malicious...

Impacket - Collection Of Python Classes For Working With Network Protocols

Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. Impacket is focused on providing low-level programmatic access to the packets and for some protocols e.g. SMB1-3 and MSRPC the protocol implementation itself. Packets can be constructed from scratch, as well as parsed...

CVE-2017-5384

Proxy Auto-Config PAC files can specify a JavaScript function called for all URL requests with the full URL path which exposes more information than would be sent to the proxy itself in the case of HTTPS. Normally the Proxy Auto-Config file is specified by the user or machine owner and presumed t...