An Interview With Howard Schmidt

Howard Schmidt has been involved in just about every aspect of the security industry during his career. After stints in the Air Force and at Microsoft, he served as a cybersecurity adviser to George W. Bush. Now, after heading back to the private sector for several years, he’s been appointed to...

DocuWiki version 2009-12-25 suffers from directory traversal listing and modification vulnerabilitie

No description provided by source. Reported: 13-01-2010 Patched: 13-01-2010 Released: 14-01-2010 Vulnerable version : http://www.splitbrain.org/media/projects/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-2009-12-25.tgz Patched version: http://www.splitbrain.org/media/projects/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-2009-12-25b.tgz Author:...

Microsoft HTML Help Compiler (hhc.exe) BOF POC

No description provided by source. Microsoft’s HTML Help Compiler hhc.exe is free tool to build Microsoft Compiled HTML Help .chm files. It is included within HTML Help Workshop and Visual Studio. The executable, hhc.exe, does not properly check the length of user-supplied command line arguments...

PHP Uploader Downloader v2.0 Upload Shell Vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ======================================================= PHP Uploader Downloader v2.0 Upload Shell Vulnerability =======================================================...

Some Advice for Howard Schmidt

It’s been little more than 24 hours since President Obama named Howard Schmidt his White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, but it didn’t take nearly that long for just about everyone with any interest in security to line up on one side or the other of the “he has no chance/he’ll save the Internet”...

New Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt

Howard A. Schmidt, the former CSO of Microsoft and former security adviser to President George W. Bush, was named White House Cybersecurity Coordinator on Tuesday...

Proof of Concept Pen Testing Tools Coming

A researcher is working on tools for penetration testers that’s a first step toward ultimately integrating and correlating data among different types of penetration-testing products. Josh Abraham, a.k.a. “Jabra,” will release some proof-of-concept tools at the OWASP AppSec Conference in Washingto...

SpamAssassin Malformed Email Header Denial Of Service (CVE-2005-1266)

SpamAssassin is an open source Email filtering product developed using Perl. The product supports a number of filtering methods such as header fields and body phrase identification, white and black list rules. The product is also embedded in numerous commercial anti-spam products from a broad ran...

Senator Joe Lieberman Wants Head of Cyber Security to Reside in White House

Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Conneticut is set to propose a bill that would make the lead security post for the U.S. government a Presidential nominee approved by the Senate and accountable to Congress. This is in sharp contrast to the proposed hierarchy laid out by the ranking Republican...

Researcher Banished For Showing How to Hack PayPal

PayPal suspended the account of a white-hat hacker on Tuesday, a day after someone used his research into website authentication to publish a counterfeit certificate for the online payment processor. “Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items th...

CVE-2008-7228

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in WhiteDune before 0.29beta851 have unspecified impact and attack vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0101...

Format string

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in WhiteDune before 0.29beta851 have unspecified impact and attack vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0101...

CVE-2008-7228

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in WhiteDune before 0.29beta851 have unspecified impact and attack vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0101...

CVE-2008-7228

CVE-2008-7228 concerns format string vulnerabilities in White_Dune prior to 0.29beta851. The connected sources identify the flaw in the swDebugf function of DuneApp.cpp, enabling arbitrary code execution via format string specifiers in a .WRL file. This entry is noted as a different vulnerability...

CVE-2008-7228

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in WhiteDune before 0.29beta851 have unspecified impact and attack vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0101...

Linux Kernel 2.6 2.6.19 (White Box 4 CentOS 4.44.5 Fedora Core 456 x86) - ip_append_data() Ring0 Privilege Escalation (1)

Linux Kernel 2.6 2.6.19 White Box 4 CentOS 4.44.5 Fedora Core 456 x86 - ipappenddata Ring0 Privilege Escalation 1 / 0x82-CVE-2009-2698 Linux kernel 2.6 . / include include include include include include include unsigned int uid, gid; void getrootuidunsigned task unsigned addr=task;...

Linux Kernel 2.6 < 2.6.19 (White Box 4 / CentOS 4.4/4.5 / Fedora Core 4/5/6 x86) - 'ip_append_data()' Ring0 Privilege Escalation (1)

/ 0x82-CVE-2009-2698 Linux kernel 2.6 . / include include include include include include include unsigned int uid, gid; void getrootuidunsigned task unsigned addr=task; whileaddr0!=uid||addr1!=uid||addr2!=uid||addr3!=uid addr++; addr0=addr1=addr2=addr3=0; / set uids / addr4=addr5=addr6=addr7=0; ...

Detailed description of SSL and TLS Web Security penetration testing-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

If the Web Service of the SSL and TLS Protocol security problem, the consequences will be how? Obviously, in this case the attacker can have all your security information, including user name, passwords, credit card, Bank information...... All in all. This article will give the reader a detailed...

Gazelle CMS 1.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities / RCE Exploit

No description provided by source. !/bin/bash Gazelle CMS 1.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities Script Download: http://www.anantasoft.com/index.php?Gazelle%20CMS/Download Found by whitesheep on 11/08/2009 Contact: [email protected] - https://www.ihteam.net Need magicquotegpc Off for RCE and LFI...

Obama cybersecurity plan has a familiar ring

President Obama on Friday presented his long-awaited cybersecurity plan, which included the establishment of a new White House office headed by a cybersecurity “coordinator” who would oversee and advise Obama on this issue. He also proposed hiring a separate official dedicated to privacy and civi...