Shellcode Compiler is a program that compiles C/C++ style code into a small, position-independent and NULL-free
shellcode for Windows. It is possible to call any Windows API function in a user-friendly way.
Shellcode Compiler takes as input a source file and it uses it’s own compiler to interpret the code and generate an
assembly file which is assembled with NASM (http://www.nasm.us/).
Shellcode compiler was released at DefCamp security…
CA20161109-01: Security Notice for CA Unified Infrastructure Management
Issued: November 09, 2016
CA Technologies Support is alerting customers to three vulnerabilities in
CA Unified Infrastructure Management (formerly CA Nimsoft). The first
vulnerability, CVE-2016-9165, involves insecure handling of sessions IDs.
A remote attacker can potentially acquire a session ID and bypass
authentication or elevate privileges. The second…
CA20161109-02: Security Notice for CA Service Desk Manager
Issued: November 09, 2016
CA Technologies Support is alerting customers to a vulnerability in CA
Service Desk Manager (formerly CA Service Desk). A reflected cross site
scripting vulnerability, CVE-2016-9148, exists in the QBE.EQ.REF_NUM
parameter of the SDM web interface. A remote attacker, who can trick a
user into clicking on or visiting a specially crafted link, could…
It was pointed out to me that I did not adequately explain that WININET
is widely used by Microsoft applications to handle HTTP requests,
*AND* probably be all third-party applications that use Windows APIs to
make HTTP requests. All these applications may be vulnerable to the
issue, though it may be hard to exploit in most (if not all).
According to Microsoft this issue affected MSIE and Edge and was fixed
through…
Throughout November, I plan to release details on vulnerabilities I
found in web-browsers which I’ve not released before. This is the
eight entry in that series, although this particular vulnerability does
not just affect web-browsers, but all applications that use WININET to
make HTTP requests.