CVE-2018-16396

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats...

CVE-2018-16396: Undefined Security Weakness

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats...

Dynamic Binary Analysis Tool: Manticore

Manticore is a prototyping tool for dynamic binary analysis, with support for symbolic execution, taint analysis, and binary instrumentation. Manticore comes with an easy-to-use command line tool that quickly generates new program “test cases” or sample inputs with symbolic execution. Each test...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-4278

In Safari before 11.1.2, iTunes before 12.8 for Windows, iOS before 11.4.1, tvOS before 11.4.1, iCloud for Windows before 7.6, sound fetched through audio elements may be exfiltrated cross-origin. This issue was addressed with improved audio taint tracking...

Comparison of Application Security Testing Approaches

Overview The following table lists a side-by-side comparison of different application security testing approaches. Additional rating details are available when hovering over each column. In the following, each approach is introduced. Category Automated Security Testing Manual Security Testing...

BootStomp - A Bootloader Vulnerability Finder

BootStomp is a boot-loader bug finder. It looks for two different class of bugs: memory corruption and state storage vulnerabilities. For more info please refer to the BootStomp paper at https://seclab.cs.ucsb.edu/academic/publishing/bootstomp-security-bootloaders-mobile-devices-2017 To run...

Apache Struts2 S2-052 (CVE-2017-9805)

In this post I'll describe how I customized a standard lgtm query to find a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Struts. A more general announcement about this vulnerability can be found here. It has been assigned CVE-2017-9805, a security bulletin can be found here on the Struts website...

BootStomp: Find Mobile Device Bootloader Vulnerabilities

PenTestIT RSS Feed Oh boy! This post is going to be interesting as it is about an interesting topic - mobile bootloaders. Specifically, this post is about BootStomp, which helps you find vulnerabilities in the bootloader. All of us know; as the name suggests, that bootloader is a program loads th...

UBUNTU-CVE-2009-5147

DL::dlopen in Ruby 1.8, 1.9.0, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0 before patchlevel 648, and 2.1 before 2.1.8 opens libraries with tainted names...

About the security content of Safari 9.1.1 - Apple Support

For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website. For information about...

The vulnerability of the Perl interpreter, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the lc, lcfirst, uc, and ucfirst functions in the Perl interpreter is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass security mechanisms and inject arbitrary code due to errors related to the improper use of the taint...

The vulnerability of the Mac OS X operating system, which allows a hacker to bypass the Taint-mode security mechanism

The vulnerability of the Perl component of the Mac OS X operating system is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a local attacker to bypass the Taint-mode protection mechanism by using a specially created environment variable...

Apple OS X Perl Security Bypass Vulnerability

Apple OS X is a special operating system developed by Apple for Mac computers. Perl is a free and powerful cross-platform programming language developed by American programmer Larry Wall. A security bypass vulnerability exists in Perl in Apple OS X versions prior to 10.12, which can be exploited ...

One Click Symbolic Execution: Ponce

Ponce pronounced ‘poN θe pon-they is an IDA Pro plugin that provides users the ability to perform taint analysis and symbolic execution over binaries in an easy and intuitive fashion. With Ponce you are one click away from getting all the power from cutting edge symbolic execution. Entirely writt...

CVE-2016-4748

Perl in Apple OS X before 10.12 allows local users to bypass the taint-mode protection mechanism via a crafted environment variable...

CVE-2016-4748

CVE-2016-4748 describes a localPrivilege bypass in Perl on macOS OS X before 10.12, where taint-mode protection can be bypassed via a crafted environment variable. The vulnerability affects Perl within macOS/OS X and is documented in Apple’s security content for macOS Sierra 10.12. The connected ...

CVE-2016-4748

Perl in Apple OS X before 10.12 allows local users to bypass the taint-mode protection mechanism via a crafted environment variable...

CVE-2016-4748: Undefined Security Weakness

Perl in Apple OS X before 10.12 allows local users to bypass the taint-mode protection mechanism via a crafted environment variable...

openSUSE Security Update : perl (openSUSE-2016-1086)

This update for Perl fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-6185: Xsloader looking at a 'eval' directory. bsc988311 - CVE-2016-1238: Searching current directory for optional modules. bsc987887 - CVE-2015-8853: Regular expression engine hanging on bad utf8. bsc - CVE-2016-2381: Environment dup...

chromium-browser: Same origin bypass for images in Blink

Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, does not ensure that a taint property is preserved after a structure-clone operation on an ImageBitmap object derived from a cross-origin image, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted JavaScript code...