Leaks and breaches: a roundup

It’s time for one of our semi-regular breach/data exposure roundup blogs, as the last few days have brought us a few monsters. If you use any of the below sites, or if you think some of your data has been sitting around exposed, we’ll hopefully give you a better idea of what the issue is. Seeing ...

Time travel debugging: It’s a blast! (from the past)

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC works to assess vulnerabilities that are externally reported to us as quickly as possible, but time can be lost if we have to confirm details of the repro steps or environment with the researcher to reproduce the vulnerability. Microsoft has made our...

Time travel debugging: It’s a blast! (from the past)

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC works to assess vulnerabilities that are externally reported to us as quickly as possible, but time can be lost if we have to confirm details of the repro steps or environment with the researcher to reproduce the vulnerability. Microsoft has made our...

Integer Overflow

The GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image composition and editing program. A stack-based buffer overflow flaw, a heap-based buffer overflow, and an integer overflow flaw were found in the way GIMP loaded certain X Window System XWD image dump files. A remote attacker could provide a...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal, is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Wireshark handled Endace ERF Extensible Record Format capture files. If Wireshark opened a...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal, is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Wireshark handled Endace ERF Extensible Record Format capture files. If Wireshark opened a...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal, is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Wireshark handled Endace ERF Extensible Record Format capture files. If Wireshark opened a...

Arbitrary Code Execution

The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plug-in and an implementation of Java Web Start, which is based on the Netx project. It also contains a configuration tool for managing deployment settings for the plug-in and Web Start implementations. It was discovered that the IcedTea-Web...

Denial Of Service (DoS) And Remote Code Execution (RCE)

The libtiff packages contain a library of functions for manipulating Tagged Image File Format TIFF files. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libtiff processed certain TIFF images using the Pixar Log Format encoding. An attacker could create a specially-crafted TIFF file that,...

The RPC vulnerability mining case studies in under-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In the RPC vulnerability mining case study on a text, we show you how to use the different tools available and online resources in the Windows RPC server found potential security risks Microsoft Universal Telemetry Client vulnerability,。 In addition, we also demonstrated to the RPC server for the...

HPSBHF03612 rev. 2 - Synaptics Audio Driver Package Allowing System Level Access to the Registry

Potential Security Impact Escalation of privilege Source: Synaptics, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported By: Synaptics VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A potential security vulnerability has been identified with the Synaptics previously Conexant Sound Device Driver CxUtilSVc.exe component...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL, part 2

The first part of this series introduced Semmle QL, and how the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC are using it to investigate variants of vulnerabilities reported to us. This post discusses an example of how we’ve been using it proactively, covering a security audit of an Azure firmware...

Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

Local privilege escalation via the Windows I/O Manager: a variant finding collaboration

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC investigates all reports of security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and services to help make our customers and the global online community more secure. We appreciate the excellent vulnerability research reported to us regularly from the...

Local privilege escalation via the Windows I/O Manager: a variant finding collaboration

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC investigates all reports of security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and services to help make our customers and the global online community more secure. We appreciate the excellent vulnerability research reported to us regularly from the...

HPSBHF03609 rev. 3 - TPM Platform Configuration Vulnerability After S3 Resume

Potential Security Impact Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, Escalation of Privilege Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported by: Seunghun Han, National Security Research Institute VULNERABILITY SUMMARY Potential security vulnerabilities have been identified with the...

Call for Papers | Microsoft BlueHat Shanghai 2019

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC recently announced our first BlueHat security conference in Shanghai which will take place on May 29-30, 2019. After 15 years of BlueHat events in Redmond, Washington and Israel, we are thrilled to expand to a new location. We work with many talented...

Practical advice for earning higher Microsoft bounty awards

This year at the Nullcon International Security Conference I shared practical advice for how security researchers can maximize the impact of their security vulnerability submissions and earn higher bounty awards under the Microsoft Bounty Program. For those who couldn’t be there, I had two core...