Building a world without passwords

Nobody likes passwords. They are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive. In fact, we dislike them so much that weve been busy at work trying to create a world without them a world without passwords. In this blog, we will provide a brief insight into how we at Microsoft think about solving this...

Microsoft Windows - Local Privilege Escalation

Microsoft Windows - Local Privilege Escalation include "stdafx.h" define PML4BASE 0xFFFFF6FB7DBED000 define PDPBASE 0xFFFFF6FB7DA00000 define PDBASE 0xFFFFF6FB40000000 define PTBASE 0xFFFFF68000000000 typedef LARGEINTEGER PHYSICALADDRESS, PPHYSICALADDRESS; pragma packpush,4 typedef struct...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: ImageMagick-6.9.9.22-1.fc27

ImageMagick is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed wor...

The Critical Security Controls: Basic Cybersecurity Hygiene for your Organization

It’s a well-known fact that most successful cyber attacks are easily preventable. That’s because the majority are neither highly sophisticated nor carefully customized. Instead, they are of the “spray and pray” sort. They try to exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or to...

Your Personal Bodycam

Shonin is a personal bodycam up on Kickstarter. There are a lot of complicated issues surrounding bodycams -- for example, it's obvious that police bodycams reduce violence -- but the one thing everyone is certain about is that they will proliferate. I'm not sure society is fully ready for the...

Arbitrary Code Injection

Overview Affected versions of reduce-css-calc pass input directly to eval. If user input is passed into the calc function, this may result in cross-site scripting on the browser, or remote code execution on the server. Proof of Concept const reduceCSSCalc = require'reduce-css-calc';...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-327.18.2.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-327.18.2 - lib keys: Fix ASN.1 indefinite length object parsing David Howells 1308814 1308815 CVE-2016-0758 3.10.0-327.18.1 - scsi bnx2fc: Fix FCP RSP residual parsing Maurizio Lombardi 1322279 1306342 - mm madvise: fix...

Google Chrome V8 Type Obfuscation Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-02614)

Google Chrome is a web browsing tool developed by Google. A security vulnerability exists in the 'ReduceTransitionElementsKind' function in the hydrogen-check-elimination.cc file of Google V8 before 4.2.77.8 used in versions of Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90. ' function has a security...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1242

The ReduceTransitionElementsKind function in hydrogen-check-elimination.cc in Google V8 before 4.2.77.8, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that leverages "type...

Session-timeout not being respected

As per the following KB I made changes that should have seen timeout reduced to 2 minutes. https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=126910597 in /confluence/WEB-INF/web.xml code 2 code I can't force Confluence to have a session timeout. This issue has been reproduced on first...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: bind-dyndb-ldap-1.1.0-0.14.rc1.fc16

This package provides an LDAP back-end plug-in for BIND. It features support for dynamic updates and internal caching, to lift the load off of your LDAP server...

Mozilla Integer overflow and arbitrary code execution (MFSA 2011-22)

Integer overflow in the Array.reduceRight method in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.18 and 4.x through 4.0.1, Thunderbird before 3.1.11, and SeaMonkey through 2.0.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a long JavaScript Array object...

Mozilla Integer overflow and arbitrary code execution (MFSA 2011-22)

Integer overflow in the Array.reduceRight method in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.18 and 4.x through 4.0.1, Thunderbird before 3.1.11, and SeaMonkey through 2.0.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a long JavaScript Array object...

In-depth NC provide the right success and failure reasons-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A lot of people in NC to mention the right without success. Because one of the reasons is you do not have to reduce the permissions. While the cause of the NC mention the right to fail ////////////////// Need to note: 1. Bounce the port. ///////////////////////// Online a lot of articles written...

Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-6972 (poppler)

The remote host is missing an update to poppler announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-6972. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: fcore20096972.nasl 6624 2017-07-10 06:11:55Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory FEDORA-2009-6972 poppler Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009...

bind security and bug fix update

20:9.2.4-25.el3 - security fix for remote DoS CVE-2009-0696, 514292 20:9.2.4-24.el3 - abort timeout queries to reduce the number of open UDP sockets 498164 - handle EMFILE error from accept gracefully 498164...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: wbxml2-0.9.2-12.fc8

The WBXML Library libwbxml contains a library and its associated tools to parse, encode and handle WBXML documents. The WBXML format is a binary representation of XML, defined by the Wap Forum, and used to reduce bandwidth in mobile communications...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5197

Buffer overflow in the Mono.Math.BigInteger class in Mono 1.2.5.1 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to Reduce in Montgomery-based Pow methods...

CVE-2007-5197

Buffer overflow in the Mono.Math.BigInteger class in Mono 1.2.5.1 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to Reduce in Montgomery-based Pow methods...

CVE-2006-6730

OpenBSD and NetBSD permit usermode code to kill the display server and write to the X.Org /dev/xf86 device, which allows local users with root privileges to reduce securelevel by replacing the System Management Mode SMM handler via a write to an SMRAM address within /dev/xf86 aka the video card...