Posts Tagged ‘local privilege escalation’

VMware Patches Lgtosync.sys Privilege Escalation in Workstation, Fusion, ESX and ESXi

Dec

2013

Certain versions of VMwares Workstation, Fusion, ESX and ESXi products are impacted by a vulnerability in the Lgtosync.sys driver that could be leveraged for privilege escalation on older Windows-based guest operating systems. The company has released patches to address the issue. According to a security advisory, Workstation 9.x prior to version 9.0.3, Player 5.x prior […]

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The Powerloader 64-bit update based on leaked exploits

Aug

2013

A few months ago on this blog I described PowerLoader functionality including an interesting way for privilege escalation into the explorer.exe system process. The leaked PowerLoader code is also used in other malware families. For example the Win32/Gapz dropper is based on leaked PowerLoader code. In August 2013 we have tracked a new modification of […]

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Linux Kernel Exploit Ported to Android

Jun

2013

Malware authors are notorious for quickly leveraging new exploits in the public domain for nefarious purposes. The recent discovery of a Linux Kernel CVE-2013-2094 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2013-2094) in the Performance Counters for Linux (PCL)-currently being exploited on various platforms-has now been modified to work on the Android operating system. For anyone unfamiliar with […]

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