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...

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...

One font vulnerability to rule them all #1: Introducing the BLEND vulnerability

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero Last month, I presented parts of my PostScript font security research at the REcon security conference in Montreal, in a talk titled “One font vulnerability to rule them all: A story of cross-software ownage, shared codebases and advanced...

Hackers Can Remotely Hack Self-Aiming Rifles to Change Its Target

High-tech Sniper Rifles can be remotely hacked to shoot the wrong target – Something really scary and unpredictable. Yes, Hackers can remotely gain access to the $13,000 TrackingPoint sniper rifles that run Linux and Android operating system and have Wi-Fi connections. So then they can either...

Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in Paid Memberships Pro WordPress Plugin

Advisory ID: HTB23264 Product: Paid Memberships Pro WordPress plugin Vendor: Stranger Studios Vulnerable Versions: 1.8.4.2 and probably prior Tested Version: 1.8.4.2 Advisory Publication: July 1, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: July 1, 2015 Vendor Patch: July 8, 2015 Public...

Stakeholders Argue Against Restrictive Wassennaar Proposal

The commenting period regarding the Wassenaar Arrangement expired on Monday but the echo chamber around the largely maligned proposal continues to reverberate. Several stakeholders implicated in the proposal added their voices to that chamber on Friday morning, urging the government to revise...

WordPress Count Per Day 3.4 SQL Injection Vulnerability

WordPress Count Per Day plugin version 3.4 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Product: Count Per Day WordPress plugin Vendor: Tom Braider Vulnerable Versions: 3.4 and probably prior Tested Version: 3.4 Advisory Publication: July 1, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notificatio...

EFF Hopeful Car Hacking Demo Could Help Yield DMCA Exemption

The latest car hacking research from Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek has elicited a broad spectrum of reactions: admiration for the skill; outrage at the danger the demo may have put drivers; and even a patch from an automaker. And the EFF is hoping it might also help produce a new exemption to...

Google Calls Proposed U.S. Wassenaar Rules 'Not Feasible'

As the clock winds down on the comment period for the United States government’s proposed implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement export controls for intrusion software, Google officials say that the rules would have a “significant negative impact” on security research. The Department of...

PHPXMLRPC < 1.1 - Remote Code Execution

PHPXMLRPC Remote Code Execution Vendor: Useful Information Inc. Product: PHPXMLRPC Version: = 1.1 Website: http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/ BID: 14088 CVE: CVE-2005-1921 OSVDB: 17793 SECUNIA: 15852 PACKETSTORM: 38394 Description: PHPXMLRPC aka XML-RPC For PHP is a PHP implementation of the XML-R...

PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.0 - Remote Code Execution

PEAR XMLRPC 1.3.0 - Remote Code Execution PEAR XMLRPC Remote Code Execution Vendor: The PEAR Group Product: PEAR XMLRPC Version: = 1.3.0 Website: http://pear.php.net/package/XMLRPC/ CVE: 17793 PACKETSTORM: 38393 Description: PEAR XMLRPC is a PHP implementation of the XML-RPC web RPC protocol, and...

Cyber UL Could Become Reality Under Leadership of Hacker Mudge

UPDATE–One of the longstanding problems in security–and the software industry in general–is the lack of any universally acknowledged authority on quality and reliability. But the industry moved one step closer to making such a clearinghouse a reality this week when Peiter Zatko, a longtime...

SearchBlox 8.2 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Vendor: SearchBlox Software, Inc. Vulnerable Versions: 8.2 and probably prior Tested Version: 8.2 Advisory Publication: April 22, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: April 22, 2015 Vendor Patch: May 26, 2015 Public Disclosure:...

The Internet Scanner: ZMap

The Internet Scanner: ZMap ZMap is an open-source network scanner that enables researchers to easily perform Internet-wide network studies. With a single machine and a well provisioned network uplink, ZMap is capable of performing a complete scan of the IPv4 address space in under 45 minutes,...

Vesta Control Panel 0.9.8 OS Command Injection

Advisory ID: HTB23261 Product: Vesta Control Panel Vendor: http://vestacp.com Vulnerable Versions: 0.9.8 and probably prior Tested Version: 0.9.8 Advisory Publication: May 20, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: May 20, 2015 Vendor Patch: June 3, 2015 Public Disclosure: June 17,...

Use-After-Free in PHP

Advisory ID: HTB23262 Product: PHP Vendor: PHP Group Vulnerable Versions: 5.6.9 and probably prior Tested Version: 5.6.9 Advisory Publication: May 20, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: May 20, 2015 Vendor Patch: June 2, 2015 Public Disclosure: June 10, 2015 Vulnerability Type: U...