Oracle Oct 2014 CPU addresses 22 security issues affecting Java VM
implementation embedded in Oracle Database software.
We have published details of the fixed issues and a description of
some privilege elevation techniques abusing a complete Java security
sandbox bypass condition for gaining DBA role in an environment of
Oracle Database software.
All relevant materials accompanied with Proof of Concept codes can
be found at our…
First of all, CVE-2014-1580 (MSFA 2014-78) is a bug that caused
Firefox prior to version 33 (released today) to leak bits of
uninitialized memory when rendering certain types of truncated images
onto <canvas>.
“pdf.c in ClamAV 0.97.1 through 0.97.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (out-of-bounds-read) via a crafted length value in an encrypted PDF
file.”
More precisely, anything based on the historic BIND stub resolver code
(which is a lot) will escape certain characters while converting from
wire format to the textual representation, including “(“, *and* also
has a check (res_hnok) which refuses PTR records which do not follow
the rather strict syntactic requirements for host names.
Lack of quoting in a DNS API at this point means that essentially
arbitrary…