Researcher Demonstrates 4 New Variants of HTTP Request Smuggling Attack

A new research has identified four new variants of HTTP request smuggling attacks that work against various commercial off-the-shelf web servers and HTTP proxy servers. Amit Klein, VP of Security Research at SafeBreach who presented the findings today at the Black Hat security conference, said th...

Reading Privileged Memory with a Side Channel - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-18282 Potential Impact: Malicious code running locally may be able to observe contents of privileged memory, circumventing expected privilege levels. Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: “Spectre” CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 “Meltdown”...

KVA Shadow: Mitigating Meltdown on Windows

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates that relate to a new class of discovered hardware vulnerabilities, termed speculative execution side channels, that affect the design methodology and implementation decisions behind many modern microprocessors. This post...

CPU hardware vulnerable to side-channel attacks

Overview CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to cache side-channel attacks. These vulnerabilities are referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. Description CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to side-channel attacks referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. Both Spectre and Meltdown take...

SGI IRIX <= 6.2 fsdump Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/355/info A number of vulnerabilities exist in the fsdump program included with Silicon Graphics Inc's IRIX operating system. Each of these holes can be used to obtain root privlilege. Variant 1: irix% /var/rfindd/fsdump...