Wednesday, April 08, 2009
At the CanSecWest conference earlier this month we made our first public release of the !exploitable Crash Analyzer. While an upcoming white paper and the CanSecWest slide deck go into detail on the technology involved, we thought it might be useful to explore the history of the tool. Roots in Fuzzing The technology and research that eventually became the !
Thursday, April 02, 2009
This afternoon, we posted Security Advisory 969136 describing a new vulnerability in PowerPoint while parsing the legacy binary file format. Unfortunately, we discovered this vulnerability being used to deploy malware in targeted attacks. We expect this blog post will: Help you protect your organization from being exploited, and Help you analyze suspicious PowerPoint files.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Yesterday we noticed a blog post and securityfocus article about a potential new vulnerability in Microsoft GDI+ when parsing a specially-crafted EMF file. You might have heard about it referred to as ‘GpFont.SetData()’. We wanted to address some speculation about this EMF parsing bug. First, our initial investigation shows that it is not exploitable for code execution.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
MS09-007 resolves an issue in which an attacker may be able to log onto an SSL protected server which is configured to use certificate based client authentication with only the public key component of a certificate, not the associated private key. Only a subset of customers who log into SSL protected servers are at risk but it is a little tricky to explain who might be affected due to the unique nature of this vulnerability.
