IOActive Las Vegas 2012
That time of the year is quickly approaching and there will be nothing but great talks and enjoyment. As a leading security and research company, IOActive will be sharing a lot of our latest research at BlackHat USA 2012, BSidesLV 2012, and IOAsis. And, of course, we’ll also be offering some relaxation and party opportunities, too! This year we are proud to be one of the companies with more talks accepted than anyone else at BlackHat USA 2012, an incredible showing that backs up our team’s hard work: · SEXY…
The Value of Data
Have you ever entered an office and seen a pile of money sitting unattended and easily accessible on a desk? How many people in your company have a key or combination to a safe with money inside and can open that safe without any controls? Do you leave money in a non-secure place that everyone knows about and can freely access? Your probable answer to all these questions is NO, which makes sense—what doesn’t make sense is how so many companies don’t think the same way about data….
Invensys Wonderware InTouch 10 DLL Hijack
ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-12-177-01P on the US-CERT Portal on July 05, 2012. The web page’s release was delayed to provide the vendor with enough time to contact customers concerning this information. Independent researcher Carlos Mario Penagos Hollmann has identified an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability, commonly referred to as a DLL hijack, in the Invensys Wonderware InTouch application. Successfully exploiting this vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution. ICS-CERT has coordinated the report with Invensys, which has produced an upgrade to address this vulnerability. Mr. Hollmann has validated that…
WellinTech KingView and KingHistorian Multiple Vulnerabilities
Independent researchers Carlos Hollmand and Dillon Beresford identified multiple vulnerabilities in WellinTech’s KingView and a single vulnerability in WellinTech’s KingHistorian applications. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely. WellinTech has created a patch, and the researchers have validated that the patch resolves these vulnerabilities in the KingView and KingHistorian applications.
Reversal and Analysis of the Zeus and SpyEye Banking Trojans
Although the core functionality of SpyEye is similar to its main rival Zeus, SpyEye incorporates many advanced tricks to hide its presence on the local system. This document includes a deep technical analysis of the bot’s advanced hooking and injection mechanisms, as well as its core functionality used to hijack and steal user information. Zeus is an advanced piece of malware, so getting it to a reversible state was not a trivial exercise since it incorporates multiple layers of custom, portable, executable encryption. IOActive reverse engineers stripped each encryption layer…
Wonderware Archestra ConfigurationAccessComponent ActiveX stack overflow
The Wonderware Archestra ConfigurationAccessComponent ActiveX control that is marked “safe for scripting” is suffering from a stack-overflow vulnerability. The UnsubscribeData method of the IConfigurationAccess interface is using wcscpy() to copy its first parameter into a static-sized local buffer. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary stack data and gain code execution.
XBMC File Traversal Vulnerability
XBMC is an award-winning, free, and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows. Created in 2003 by a group of like-minded programmers, XBMC is a nonprofit project run and was developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fwknop
Fwknop stands for the “FireWall KNock OPerator” and implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization (SPA). This method of authorization is based on a default-drop packet filter and libpcap. A server might appear to have no open ports available, but it could still grant access to certain services if authorized fwknop packets are received. Companies commonly use this service on exposed systems and need to diminish the attack surface of this service. wknop contains several vulnerabilities. The most critical of these might allow remote, authenticated attackers to leverage flaws…
IBM Informix XML functions overflows
Informix is one of the world’s most widely used database servers, with users ranging from the world’s largest corporations to startups. Informix incorporates design concepts that are significantly different from traditional relational platforms. This results in extremely high levels of performance and availability, distinctive capabilities in data replication and scalability, and minimal administrative overhead. Informix contains two vulnerabilities affecting several versions. Attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code or cause denial-of-service conditions.
Windows Kernel Library Filename Parsing Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Windows. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must open or browse to a file or subfolder with a specially crafted name on a network SMB share, UNC share, or WebDAV web folder.