Category Archives: Checkpoint

Checkpoint

SAP SQL Anywhere .NET Data Provider Column Alias Buffer Overflow (CVE-2014-9264)

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in SAP SQL Anywhere .NET Data Provider. The vulnerability is caused by insufficient boundary checks in the handling of column aliases. If an application allows untrusted input to be used as the column alias in an SQL query, by sending crafted requests to the application, an attacker can overflow a stack-based buffer. A successful attack will result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the application.

SuperFish Adware Root Certificate

SuperFish Adware is a software that uses SSL man-in-the-middle (MitM) technique in order to intercept SSL sessions and inject its own content into the session. The certificate used by SuperFish has been decrypted, and therefore, attackers might exploit it to disclose confidential or private information passed over SuperFish SSL channel, or tamper with such information and change it.