VRT-2013-1001 (CVE-2013-6487): Buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu HTTP parsing
Sourcefire Vulnerability Report VRT-2013-1001 (CVE-2013-6487): Buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu HTTP parsing Description An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in Pidgin's implementation of the Gadu Gadu protocol in the libpurple library. An attacker who can c
VRT-2013-1004 (CVE-2013-6490): Buffer overflow in SIMPLE header parsing
Sourcefire Vulnerability Report VRT-2013-1004 (CVE-2013-6490):Buffer overflow in SIMPLE header parsing Description An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in Pidgin's implementation of SIP/SIMPLE message handling. An attacker who can control the Content-Len
VRT-2013-1002 (CVE-2013-6489): Buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing
Sourcefire Vulnerability Report VRT-2013-1002 (CVE-2013-6489): Buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing Description An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in Pidgin's implementation of the Mxit protocol in the libpurple library. An attacker who can control
VRT-2013-1003 (CVE-2013-6486): Pidgin uses clickable links to untrusted executables
Sourcefire Vulnerability Report VRT-2013-1003: Pidgin uses clickable links to untrusted executables Description An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in Pidgin's implementation of file:// URL handling. An attacker can supply a remote path which will be ev
Our coverage for the Recent Point of Sale Compromises
On December 19th, 2013, Target Corp announced that it fell victim to a very sophisticated cyber-attack that took place around the Thanksgiving holiday. This led to the theft of information pertaining to over 40 million credit and debit accounts used at their stores. As many peop
Fiesta Exploit Kit, is no party
Recently, when our Cisco TRAC team contacted us about some work that we did concerning the Fiesta Exploit Kit for an article they were writing, we were happy to work with them. As discussed in the recent Cisco Annual Security Report, exploit kits have been very pervasive in the
Microsoft Update Tuesday: January 2014, fix for the XP/2003 0-day vulnerability
The first Microsoft Update Tuesday of 2014 is here and it’s a very light month this time around. We’ve got 4 bulletins covering 6 CVEs. What’s remarkable is that there’s no Internet Explorer bulletin this month. There are also no bulletins that are marked critical, all 4 bulletin
Microsoft Update Tuesday: December 2013, some 0-day fixes
Microsoft’s final update for the year brings us 11 bulletins covering 24 CVE issues. As is customary, there is the critical IE bulletin, MS13-097. This time it covers 7 CVE issues. As in other months, this includes a number of use-after-free issues that we’ve come to expect in
When an exploit kit is VERY simple
Ran across this "exploit kit" today. I'm holding up my hands with air quotes: Not really sure if it is an exploit kit, as so far, it is just a landing page with applet redirection to a jar file. The GoogleDocs.jar file that is mentioned above is a simple generate