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Malware Leveraging MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Found

26

Jan

2012

Earlier today, we encountered a malware that exploits a recently (and publicly) disclosed vulnerability, the MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0003).The said vulnerability is triggered when Windows Multimedia Library in Windows Media Player (WMP) fails to handle a specially crafted MIDI file, consequently allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.In the attack that we found, the infection […]

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Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Memory Corruption Vulnerability

21

Dec

2011

A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e.g. a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large “height” attribute viewed […]

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Inside Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploit CVE 2011-2462

15

Dec

2011

Recently a critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader X and Adobe Acrobat X Versions 10.1.1 and earlier for Windows and Mac OS, Reader 9.4.6 and Reader 9.x Versions for Unix. This zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and silently take the control of a victim’s machine. This flaw […]

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