A simple example of a complex cyberattack

We're already used to the fact that complex cyberattacks use 0-day vulnerabilities, bypassing digital signature checks, virtual file systems, non-standard encryption algorithms and other tricks. Sometimes, however, all of this may be done in much simpler ways, as was the case in the malicious...

R PDF LoadEncoding Code Execution Vulnerability(CVE-2016-8714)

Summary An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. A specially crafted R script can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a memory corruption. An attacker can send a malicious R script to trigger this...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - nt!NtSetIoCompletion nt!NtRemoveIoCompletion Pool Memory Disclosure

Microsoft Windows Kernel - nt!NtSetIoCompletion nt!NtRemoveIoCompletion Pool Memory Disclosure / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1269 We have discovered that the nt!NtRemoveIoCompletion system call handler discloses 4 bytes of uninitialized pool memory to user-mo...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:2497-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-5283 fixes several issues. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-1000112: Prevent a race condition in net-packet code that could have been exploited by unprivileged users to gain root access bsc1052368. - CVE-2017-7645: The NFSv2/NFSv3 server...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: augeas-1.8.1-1.fc25

A library for programmatically editing configuration files. Augeas parses configuration files into a tree structure, which it exposes through its public API. Changes made through the API are written back to the initially read files. The transformation works very hard to preserve comments and...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-077)

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The ip6appenddata function in net/ipv6/ip6output.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.3 is too late in checking whethe...

CVE-2017-14156

The atyfbioctl function in drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfbbase.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.10 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading locations associated with padding bytes...

The vulnerability of the ScheduleQuery method in the scheduling class of the ZENworks Configuration Management information system allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

The vulnerability of the ScheduleQuery method in the ZENworks Configuration Management software framework relates to the lack of measures taken to protect the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary SQL commands using undefined vectors...

CVE-2015-7700

Double-free vulnerability in the sPLT chunk structure and png.c in pngcrush before 1.7.87 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors...

CVE-2015-7700

Double-free vulnerability in the sPLT chunk structure and png.c in pngcrush before 1.7.87 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors...

CVE-2015-7700

CVE-2015-7700 affects pngcrush before v1.7.87, with a double-free in the sPLT chunk structure and in png.c. The issue is described across multiple sources as allowing unspecified impact via unknown vectors. Public details identify the vulnerable component as pngcrush’s parsing/handling of sPLT an...

CVE-2015-7700

Double-free vulnerability in the sPLT chunk structure and png.c in pngcrush before 1.7.87 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors...

CVE-2017-12595

The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and segmentation fault or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash ...

CVE-2017-12595

The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and segmentation fault or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash ...

CVE-2017-12595

The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and segmentation fault or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash ...

Zerodium Offers $500K for Secure Messaging App Zero Days

Zerodium, a vendor operating in the nebulous exploit acquisition market, has put a premium on zero-day vulnerabilities in secure messaging applications in a new pricing structure announced today. Remote code execution and local privilege elevation zero days in messaging apps such as WhatsApp,...

Null pointer dereference

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, if a pointer argument coming from userspace is invalid, a driver may use an uninitialized structure to log an error message...

CVE-2017-9680

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, if a pointer argument coming from userspace is invalid, a driver may use an uninitialized structure to log an error message...

Buffer overflow

In a driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a user-supplied buffer is casted to a structure without checking if the source buffer is large enough...

Oolong CVE-2017-8570 samples and behind the idea-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The so-called CVE-2017-8570 sample Last week, 360 days eye lab found foreign hackers on Github released a CVE-2017-8570 exploits code, but then deleted, in order to find quite a few labeled as CVE-2017-8570 Office malware samples, such as the following VirusTotal is marked as CVE-2017-8570 sample...