Oracle Document Capture 10g ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Oracle Document Capture 10g 10.1.3.5.0. Oracle Document Capture 10g comes bundled with a third party ActiveX control emsmtp.dll 6.0.1.0. When passing an overly long string to the method "SubmitToExpress" an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary...

FBI Reports Malware on Rise in Electronic Funds Fraud

The FBI reports it has seen a rise of malware over the past few months targeting small and medium businesses and municipal government entities and school districts. Once a malicious attachment or link is opened, keylogging tactics obtain bank account info where criminals then initiate wire...

US-CERT Warns About Free BlackBerry Spyware App

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned BlackBerry users on Tuesday about a new program called PhoneSnoop that allows someone to remotely eavesdrop on phone conversations. The PhoneSnoop application must be installed on the phone by someone who has physical access to it or by tricking t...

Wyse Rapport Hagent Fake Hserver Command Execution

$Id: hagentuntrustedhsdata.rb This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/ require 'timeout...

Adobe Reader FlateDecode filter TIFF Predictor integer overflow

Added: 10/27/2009 CVE: CVE-2009-3459 BID: 36600 OSVDB: 58729 Background Adobe Reader is free software for viewing PDF documents. Problem An integer overflow in the FlateDecode filter in Adobe Reader allows command execution when a user opens a PDF file containing specially crafted compressed...

Exploit Code Published for New Microsoft IIS FTP Flaw

There is exploit code circulating for a newly discovered vulnerability in the FTP service of Microsoft IIS, a flaw which could enable an attacker to run his own code on a remote server. The flaw mainly affects older versions of IIS, Microsoft’s Web server product, but the existence of a working...

Obama is Failing the Cybersecurity Test

That giant sucking sound you hear is the steady stream of talented security people and experienced policy makers getting out of Washington as quickly as possible as the Obama administration continues to be paralyzed by indecision and a lack of direction regarding cybersecurity. The latest chapter...

US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-204A -- Adobe Flash Vulnerability Affects Flash Player and Other Adobe Products

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-204A Adobe Flash Vulnerability Affects Flash Player and Other Adobe Products Original release date: July 23, 2009 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Adobe Flash Player...

Wyse Rapport Hagent Fake Hserver - Command Execution (Metasploit)

$Id: hagentuntrustedhsdata.rb 10998 2010-11-11 22:43:22Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use...

Wyse Rapport Hagent Fake Hserver Command Execution

No description provided by source. $Id: hagentuntrustedhsdata.rb This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use...

US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-187A -- Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-187A Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Vulnerability Original release date: July 06, 2009 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 200...

Hackers Pounce on Michael Jackson's Death

As night follows day, malicious hackers are following high-profile news around celebrity deaths to launch attacks. According to a warning from the U.S. Computer Emergency Response team, there are several spam campaigns, phishing attacks, and malicious code targeting the recent deaths of Michael...

Debian DSA-1807-1 : cyrus-sasl2, cyrus-sasl2-heimdal - buffer overflow

"James Ralston discovered that the saslencode64 function of cyrus-sasl2, a free library implementing the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, suffers from a missing null termination in certain situations. This causes several buffer overflows in situations where cyrus-sasl2 itself requires th...

ntp -- stack-based buffer overflow

US-CERT reports: ntpd contains a stack buffer overflow which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system or create a denial of service...

Health scares can provide lessons for security

The swine flu outbreak has inspired a flood of comparisons and false analogies to Conficker and other worms, most of which miss the many key differences between the Internet infrastructure and the human population. But there are lessons that security personnel can learn from the ways that health...

Beware of Swine Flu phishing, e-mail scams

Security researchers are starting to sound the alarm avertlabs.com for e-mail scams related to news stories on the Swine Flu. According to a notice from US-CERT, the attacks arrive via an unsolicited email message typically containing a subject line related to the Swine Flu. These email messages...

Dranzer: Fuzzing for ActiveX vulnerabilities

The United States Computer Emergency Response Team US-CERT has released a new ActiveX fuzzer to help developers pinpoint browser-based security vulnerabilities. The tool, called Dranzer, lets software developers test ActiveX controls for vulnerabilities before the software is released to the...

Blackberry plugs code execution holes

From The H Security Research In Motion have published an advisory blackberry.com to warn of another vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment service. This new vulnerability is in addition to previous issues with the PDF distiller service. According to US-CERT, the issue is...

cyrus-sasl -- buffer overflow vulnerability

US-CERT reports: The saslencode64 function converts a string into base64. The Cyrus SASL library contains buffer overflows that occur because of unsafe use of the saslencode64 function...

Flash drive/CD autoplay command execution

Added: 04/07/2009 Background This tool allows you to create a USB flash drive which, when inserted into a Windows computer, prompts a user to run a program which creates a command connection. The program is disguised as the "Open Folder" option in the AutoPlay dialog to entice the user to run it...