NSA bought Hacking tools from 'Vupen', a French based zero-day Exploit Seller

The US government, particularly the National Security Agency has been paying a French security firm for backdoors and zero day hacks. According to a contract newly released in response to a Freedom of Information request, last year the NSA purchased a 12-month subscription to a “binary analysis a...

NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN, Contract Shows

The U.S. government–particularly the National Security Agency–are often regarded as having advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities. But that doesn’t mean that they’re above bringing in a little outside help when it’s needed. A newly public contract shows that the NSA last year bought a...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer Protected Mode Sandbox Bypass (Pwn2Own 2013 / MS13-059)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer Protected Mode Sandbox Bypass Pwn2Own 2013 / MS13-059 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included as pa...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer "ReplaceAdjacentText" Use-after-free (MS13-059)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer "ReplaceAdjacentText" Use-after-free MS13-059 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included as part of th...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Windows "LdrHotPatchRoutine" Remote ASLR Bypass (Pwn2Own 2013 / MS13-063)

Microsoft Windows "LdrHotPatchRoutine" Remote ASLR Bypass Pwn2Own 2013 / MS13-063 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft...

VUPEN Security Research - Mozilla Firefox Maintenance Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

VUPEN Security Research - Mozilla Firefox Maintenance Service Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser coordinated by Mozilla Corporation a...

VUPEN Security Research - Oracle Java Preloader Click-2-Play Warning Bypass Vulnerability

VUPEN Security Research - Oracle Java Applet Preloader Click-2-Play Warning Bypass Vulnerability Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Java is the foundation for virtually every type of networked application and is the global standa...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 VML Remote Integer Overflow (MS13-037 / Pwn2Own)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 VML Remote Integer Overflow MS13-037 / Pwn2Own Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included a...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9 Object Confusion Sandbox Bypass (MS13-037 / Pwn2Own)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9 Object Confusion Sandbox Bypass MS13-037 / Pwn2Own Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included as...

Microsoft Patches IE Zero Day Used In Watering Hole Attack

Microsoft wasted no time today delivering a patch for the Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability being exploited in watering hole attacks carried out against the U.S. Department of Labor website and nine others worldwide. Today’s Patch Tuesday security updates also include a fix for IE vulnerabilities...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 "CDisplayPointer" Use-after-free (MS13-028)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 "CDisplayPointer" Use-after-free MS13-028 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included as par...

VUPEN Security Research - Oracle Java JavaFX Video Frame Decoding Remote Heap Overflow (Pwn2Own 2013)

VUPEN Security Research - Oracle Java JavaFX Video Frame Decoding Remote Heap Overflow Pwn2Own 2013 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Java is the foundation for virtually every type of networked application and is the global...

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Flash Player RTMP Data Processing Object Confusion (CVE-2013-2555)

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Flash Player RTMP Data Processing Object Confusion Code Execution CVE-2013-2555 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform browser-based application runtime that...

VUPEN Security Research - Mozilla Firefox "nsHTMLEditRules" Use-After-Free (MFSA-2013-29 / CVE-2013-0787)

VUPEN Security Research - Mozilla Firefox "nsHTMLEditRules" Use-After-Free MFSA-2013-29 / CVE-2013-0787 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser coordinated by Mozilla Corporation an...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 "OnMove" Use-after-free (MS13-021 / CVE-2013-0087)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 "OnMove" Use-after-free MS13-021 / CVE-2013-0087 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 8506)

MozillaFirefox has been updated to the 17.0.4ESR release. Besides the major version update from the 10ESR stable release line to the 17ESR stable release line, this update brings critical security and bugfixes : - VUPEN Security, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free...

CentOS Update for thunderbird CESA-2013:0627 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

RHEL 6 : thunderbird (RHSA-2013:0627)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0627 advisory. Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. A flaw was found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious content could cause...

CentOS Update for xulrunner CESA-2013:0614 centos5

Check for the Version of xulrunner OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for xulrunner CESA-2013:0614 centos5 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

RedHat Update for xulrunner RHSA-2013:0614-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...