memory corruption

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2018
An untold story of a memory corruption bug in Skype

Security expert discovered that Skype has a malloc(): memory corruption vulnerability that could be triggered while users share some media/file with someone during a call.  Tested on: Linux zero 4.15.0-29-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 17 15:39:52 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Product affected: Skype for linux (skypeforlinux_8.27.0.85_amd64.deb)Steps to reproduce this issue: 1. Open […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2016
Critical vulnerabilities open Symantec customers to remote hack

Symantec has fixed dozens of critical vulnerabilities affecting its solutions that can be exploited by remote attackers for arbitrary code execution. The popular Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy last month reported a number of critical security issues in Symantec solutions, and this is the good news. The bad news is that Symantec promptly fixed one […]