Adobe Patches 23 Vulnerabilities in Flash Player

Adobe has released a Flash Player update that addresses 23 critical vulnerabilities in the software, many which can lead to code execution. Version 18.0.0.231 and earlier of Flash Player for Windows and Mac, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 10, and Internet Explorer 10 and 11, a...

MS15-078 Microsoft Windows Font Driver Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' require 'msf/core/post/windows/reflectivedllinjection' require 'rex' class Metasploit3 'MS15-07...

Citing Wassenaar, HP Pulls out of Mobile Pwn2Own

More evidence of the potential chilling effect the Wassenaar Arrangement could have on security research surfaced this week when it was revealed HP has decided not to take part in November’s Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest in Japan. Dragos Ruiu, who organizes the CanSecWest and PacSecWest...

Cerb 7.0.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Advisory ID: HTB23269 Product: Cerb Vendor: Webgroup Media LLC Vulnerable Versions: 7.0.3 and probably prior Tested Version: 7.0.3 Advisory Publication: August 12, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: August 12, 2015 Vendor Patch: August 14, 2015 Public Disclosure: September 2, 201...

Cerb 7.0.3 Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Cerb version 7.0.3 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability. Product: Cerb Vendor: Webgroup Media LLC Vulnerable Versions: 7.0.3 and probably prior Tested Version: 7.0.3 Advisory Publication: August 12, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: August 12, 2015 Vendor Patc...

Cerb 7.0.3 Cross Site Request Forgery

Advisory ID: HTB23269 Product: Cerb Vendor: Webgroup Media LLC Vulnerable Versions: 7.0.3 and probably prior Tested Version: 7.0.3 Advisory Publication: August 12, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: August 12, 2015 Vendor Patch: August 14, 2015 Public Disclosure: September 2, 201...

QEMU - Programmable Interrupt Timer Controller Heap Overflow

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=419c4 The programmable interrupt timer PIT controller in QEMU does not correctly validate the channel number when performing IO writes to the device controller, allowing both an information disclosure and heap-overflow...

Charlie Miller to Leave Twitter Security Team

Charlie Miller, one of the more respected and accomplished security researchers in the industry, is leaving Twitter’s security team after three years. Miller said on Monday that he is leaving the company at the end of this week and that he plans to announce his new job next week. Miller joined...

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in qTranslate WordPress Plugin

Advisory ID: HTB23265 Product: qTranslate WordPress plugin Vendor: Qian Qin Vulnerable Versions: 2.5.39 and probably prior Tested Version: 2.5.39 Advisory Publication: July 1, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: July 1, 2015 Public Disclosure: July 29, 2015 Vulnerability Type:...

Microsoft Office 2007 - 'wwlib.dll' fcPlcfFldMom Uninitialized Heap Usage

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=424&can=1 The following crash was observed in Microsoft Office 2007 with Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In disabled and Application Verifier enabled for testing and reproduction. This bug also reproduced in Office...

Adobe Flash AS2 - Color.setRGB Use-After-Free

Adobe Flash AS2 - Color.setRGB Use-After-Free Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=367&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Deadline tracking for Chromium VRP bug https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=484610...

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Drawing and Bitmap Handling

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=396&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id A nasty looking crash is manifesting in various different ways under fuzzing, apparently related to drawing and bitmap handling. A trigger is...

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Drawing and Bitmap Handling

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Drawing and Bitmap Handling Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=396&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id A nasty looking crash is manifesting in various different ways under fuzzing, apparentl...

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Button Handling

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Button Handling Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=399&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id The attached sample, signalsigsegv7ffff60a14299554f4dc661554237404dfe394d4c6c3e674.swf, crashes in...

Adobe Flash - Display List Handling Use-After-Free

Adobe Flash - Display List Handling Use-After-Free Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=349&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Credit is to KEEN Team. 3 different PoC's in the attached zip. Proof of Concept:...

Microsoft Windows 8.1 - DCOM DCE/RPC Local NTLM Reflection Privilege Escalation (MS15-076)

Source: https://github.com/monoxgas/Trebuchet Trebuchet MS15-076 CVE-2015-2370 Privilege Escalation Copies a file to any privileged location on disk Compiled with VS2015, precompiled exe in Binary directory Usage: trebuchet.exe C:\Users\Bob\Evil.txt C:\Windows\System32\Evil.dll This is a lightly...

Facebook Internet Defense Prize Doubles Payout

Facebook tonight awarded a $100,000 prize to a team of Georgia Tech researchers who found a new class of browser-based memory-corruption vulnerabilities and built a corresponding detection technique. The award brings the social media giant on par with Microsoft and its six-figure payouts for...

Model S has a security vulnerability? Tesla Fury dig Google head of security-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Earlier today broke the Tesla Model S model electric car, there may be hackers exploit major security vulnerability through this vulnerability hackers can remotely control cars, and even let the car flameout, the media reported this message and of the electric car's safety questioned. Tesla in...

'Prohibition Era' Of Security Research May Be Ahead

LAS VEGAS–Export controls have become a dirty phrase in the security community, especially among researchers, pen testers, and others who rely on vulnerability information and exploits to do their jobs. And if the Wassenaar Arrangement rules proposed by the United States aren’t modified...

Government Takes Second Look at US Wassenaar Rules

In spite of self-congratulatory pats on the back from several corners of the security world, this week’s decision from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security BIS to rewrite the proposed U.S. implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement rules was an expected outcome—albeit an...