Facebook hacked in Zero-Day Attack

Facebook operator of the largest social network with more than 1 billion members, said on Friday it had been the target of an unidentified hacker group, but that no user information was compromised during the attack. The attack occurred when a handful of the company's employees visited a...

Google Releases Chrome 18, Fixes Nine Security Flaws

Google has released version 18 of its Chrome browser and has fixed a number of serious security vulnerabilities in the process. The latest version of Chrome also includes an updated release of the Flash player that now includes the background updated that enables users to set the software to upda...

Adobe Patches Flash Player, Unveils New Silent Updater

Adobe pushed out a security update for its Flash Player Wednesday, patching two critical holes and introducing a new silent update option. The update, Adobe Flash Player 11.2, addresses two memory corruption vulnerabilities in Windows, Mac, Linux and early Android builds that could lead to remote...

Adobe Warns of Flash Player Zero-Day Attack

The zero-day hacker attacks against Adobe’s software products are coming fast and furious. Less than a week after the discovery of a sophisticated malware attack against an unpatched security hole in Adobe Reader/Acrobat, the company has issued a new warning for in-the-wild attacks against a...

CVE-2007-0671

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003, and 2004 for Mac, and possibly other Office products, allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors, as demonstrated by Exploit-MSExcel.h in targeted zero-day attacks...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2006-6456. Reason: This candidate is a duplicate of CVE-2006-6456. It was assigned for a targeted zero-day attack, but further analysis revealed it was for an older issue. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2006-6456 instea...

Update Protection against MS-Word Zero-Day Attack (919637)

A zero-day attack has been reported using a code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word. In order for this attack to be triggered, a user must open a malicious Word document attached to an e-mail or otherwise provided to them by an attacker. Opening the Word file causes the system to be...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack...

CVE-2006-2492

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack. Recent...

CVE-2006-2492

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack...