Car Hacking, Mobile Jailbreaking Among DCMA Exemptions Granted

Car hackers and jailbreakers today apparently got a green light from the Librarian of Congress David Mao to tinker away. The Library of Congress’ triennial exemptions to the anti-circumvention rules within the Digital Copyright Millennium Act DCMA were released today, and among the exemptions to...

Let's Encrypt Free SSL/TLS Certificate Now Trusted by Major Web Browsers

Yes, Let's Encrypt is now one step closer to its goal of offering Free HTTPS certificates to everyone. Let's Encrypt – the free, automated, and open certificate authority CA – has announced that its Free HTTPS certificates are Now Trusted and Supported by All Major Browsers. Let's Encrypt enables...

Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade on the Dangers of APT Security Research

Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade from Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team GReAT joins Ryan Naraine on the podcast to discuss the “identity crisis” in the anti-malware industry and the ethics and perils of investigating state-sponsored or geopolitically significant threats. READ The Ethics a...

Two Reflected XSS Vulnerabilities in Calls to Action WordPress plugin

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered two Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerabilities in a popular WordPress plugin Calls to Action. A remote attacker might be able to steal user's and administrator’s cookies, credentials and browser history, modify web page content to perform phishing...

SourceBans 1.4.11 Cross Site Scripting

Advisory ID: HTB23273 Product: SourceBans Vendor: Sourcebans team Vulnerable Versions: 1.4.11 and probably prior Tested Version: 1.4.11 Advisory Publication: October 2, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: October 2, 2015 Public Disclosure: October 22, 2015 Vulnerability Type:...

iTop 2.1.0-2127 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

iTop version 2.1.0-2127 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. Product: iTop Vendor: Combodo SARL Vulnerable Versions: 2.1.0-2127 and probably prior Tested Version: 2.1.0-2127 Advisory Publication: July 29, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: July 29, 2015 Vendor Patch...

iTop 2.1.0-2127 Cross Site Scripting

Advisory ID: HTB23268 Product: iTop Vendor: Combodo SARL Vulnerable Versions: 2.1.0-2127 and probably prior Tested Version: 2.1.0-2127 Advisory Publication: July 29, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: July 29, 2015 Vendor Patch: July 30, 2015 Public Disclosure: September 23, 2015...

Apple Mac OSX Regex Engine (TRE) - Integer Signedness / Overflow

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=429 The OS X regex engine function tretnfarunparallel contains the following code: int tbytes; ... if !matchtags numtags = 0; else numtags = tnfa-numtags; ... int rbytes, pbytes, totalbytes; char tmpbuf; / Compute the...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - Brush Object Use-After-Free (MS15-061)

Microsoft Windows Kernel - Brush Object Use-After-Free MS15-061 Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=304 Creating a device context with the flag DCXNORESETATTRS​ and selecting a brush object into the device context will result in the brush being freed on...

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...