Advanced Memory and Storage Considerations for Provisioning Services

As Citrix Provisioning Services has begun to play a greater role in XenApp and XenDesktop implementations, many discussions have been had on proper sizing of Provisioning Services from a network, CPU and storage perspective. However, most recommendations have left out guidelines for proper sizing...

FreshFTP 5.52 - .qfl Crash (PoC)

FreshFTP 5.52 - .qfl Crash PoC Exploit Title: FreshFTP .QFL Local DOSWhile Parsing. Date: 9/15/2015 Exploit Author: UnN0n Software Vendor : http://www.freshwebmaster.com/ Software Link: http://www.freshwebmaster.com/download.html Version: 5.52 Tested on: Windows 7 x8632 BIT Steps to Produce the...

FreshFTP 5.52 - .qfl Crash PoC

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Exploit Title: FreshFTP .QFL Local DOSWhile Parsing. Date: 9/15/2015 Exploit Author: UnN0n Software Vendor : http://www.freshwebmaster.com/ Software Link: http://www.freshwebmaster.com/download.html Version: 5.52 Tested on: Windows 7 x8632 BIT...

Samsung Launches 6GB RAM Chips for Next Generation Smartphones

With Launch of Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, Samsung was the first one to bring 4GB RAM access in the Android mobile phones; with Samsung Note 5 and the current OnePlus 2 carrying the same RAM capacity. Now, today Samsung has again taken the technology a step further with the launch of 12GB LPDDR...

Kali Linux 2.0 - The Best Penetration Testing Distribution

So, what’s new in Kali 2.0? There’s a new 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage, support for a variety of Desktop Environments gnome, kde, xfce, mate, e17, lxde, i3wm, updated desktop environment and tools – and the list goes on. Kali Linux is Now ...

CVE-2015-3693

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption, by...

Memory corruption

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption, by...

CVE-2015-3693

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption, by...

CVE-2015-3693

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001 on OS X versions including pre-10.10.4 is affected by a rowhammer‑style memory corruption issue (CVE-2015-3693) caused by insufficient DDR3 memory refresh handling. This could enable remote attackers to cause memory corruption and gain privileges or trigger a denial ...

BackBox Linux 4.2 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...

Rekall - The Most Complete Memory Analysis Framework

The Rekall Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the GNU General Public License, for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory RAM samples. The extraction techniques are performed completely independent of the system being investigated but...

Booting Kali Linux Live over HTTP

The basic premise involves using the Kali Live kernel and initrd for booting, while calling the Kali root filesystem through an HTTP URI. The initial boot process can take place over the network via PXE or a minimal USB/CD – while the remote root filesystem is a squashfs image served over HTTP vi...

How to Run Linux Kernel on Canon DSLRs Cameras

Last month, I Got a Canon's amazing and powerful video-capable DSLR Camera and was wondering if I could play a hack on it. Yes, Just like last time I installed and run Linux on my PlayStation 3 gaming console and the popular game console, the Nintendo Wii. What If I could port Linux Kernel to my...

libcacard, qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0349 Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common...

Google Fix for Android Memory Leakage Issue In The Works

Google is prepping a fix for Android users that addresses a meddlesome memory leakage issue that’s plagued some device users since the end of last year. The issue, present in versions 5.0.1 and 5.1 of the mobile operating system code-named Lollipop, has been causing irregular application activity...

DRAM 'Rowhammer' Memory Bit Flip Privilege Elevation Vulnerability

DRAM, or Dynamic Random Access Memory, is the most common type of system memory. DRAM devices have security vulnerabilities that allow a local user to run a program that continuously accesses the DRAM, flipping the value of a cell from 1 to 0, or vice versa, allowing elevated privileges to execut...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2015:0624)

Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...

qemu: insufficient parameter validation during ram load

It was found that certain values that were read when loading RAM during migration were not validated. A user able to alter the savevm data either on the disk or over the wire during migration could use either of these flaws to corrupt QEMU process memory on the destination host, which could...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which...

SUSE-SU-2015:0349-1 Security update for qemu

QEMU was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2014-8106: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Cirrus VGA emulator hw/display/cirrusvga.c in QEMU allowed local guest users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to blit regions. CVE-2014-784...