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September 11, 2017 11:35

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2017-0430/0431: Multiple Vulnerabilities in FreeXL Library

Vulnerability discovered by Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos Overview Talos has discovered two remote code execution vulnerabilities in the the FreeXL library. FreeXL is an open source C library to extract valid data from within an Excel (.xls) spreadsheet. Exploiting these vulnera

July 7, 2017 11:27

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2017-0311,0319,0321 - Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Poppler PDF library

Vulnerability discovered by Marcin Noga, Lilith Wyatt and Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos. Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the freedesktop.org Poppler PDF library. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to gain full control over the v

February 27, 2017 12:59

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in Iceni Argus PDF Content Extraction affect MarkLogic

Vulnerability discovered by Marcin ’Icewall’ Noga and a member of the Talos VulnDev team. Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Iceni Argus PDF content extraction product. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to gain full control over the v

November 15, 2016 12:29

Crashing Stacks Without Squishing Bugs: Advanced Vulnerability Analysis

This post is authored by Marcin Noga with contributions by Holger Unterbrink Overview Crash triaging can be a long and complicated process; by using proper tools and having an optimal approach, we can make this a bit easier and less time consuming. In this post we describe a tr

November 3, 2016 11:00

Take the RIG Pill: Down the Rabbit Hole

The adversaries are leveraging Gates (e.g. EITest) to redirect the users to their Landing Page. This leads to a chain of redirects, before the victim finally gets on the landing page of the exploit kit.