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New Zero-Day Attack Copies Earlier Flash Exploitation

13

Jul

2013

Late on July 10, Microsoft released a blog post disclosing that they were aware of a zero-day attack in the wild. This attack exploits a previously unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2013-3163). It’s interesting that the vulnerability was just patched in this month’s Patch Tuesday (July 9), which is perhaps only a coincidence. Although we do […]

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PostgreSQL Denial of Service Vulnerability Found and Patched

27

Feb

2013

PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects. Graphical user interfaces and bindings for many programming languages are available as well.Earlier this month, I discovered a denial of service vulnerability in versions of PostgreSQL that caused a crash […]

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Unpacking Malware Requires Searching for Zero Padding

19

Feb

2013

Recently we experimented with our generic unpacking heuristics. Our goal was to unpack a potentially malicious binary and dump the executable from memory to a file. During our experiments we saw a few unknown packers from which we successfully unpacked the binary; with these, however, we dumped the memory but we missed some code in […]

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