Unspecified vulnerability in the Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.66 and earlier, and 5.5.28 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Server Optimizer.

CVE-2013-0389: Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2013

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 6 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted applet that bypasses SecurityManager restrictions by (1) using com.sun.beans.finder.ClassFinder.findClass and leveraging an exception with the forName method to access restricted classes from arbitrary packages such as sun.awt.SunToolkit, then (2) using "reflection with a trusted immediate caller" to leverage the getField method to access and modify private fields, as exploited in the wild in August 2012 using Gondzz.class and Gondvv.class.

*   Aug 27, 2012
*   1 min read
*   Wei Chen

_Last updated at Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:55:46 GMT_

On late Sunday night, the Metasploit Exploit team was looking for kicks, and heard the word on the street that someone was passing around a reliable Java 0-day exploit. Big thanks to Joshua J. Drake (jduck), we got our hands on that PoC, and then once again, started our voodoo ritual. Within a couple of hours, we have a working exploit. **Download Metasploit here**, and apply the latest update to pick up the exploit.

The above example is a successful attack against a fully patched Windows 7 SP1 with Java 7 Update 6.  We have also tested the module against the following environments:

*   Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu Linux 10.04
*   Internet Explorer / Mozilla Firefox / Chrome on Windows XP
*   Internet Explorer / Mozilla Firefox on Windows Vista
*   Internet Explorer / Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7
*   Safari on OS X 10.7.4

As a user, you should take this problem seriously, because there is currently no patch from Oracle.  For now, our recommendation is to completely disable Java until a fix is available.  NOTE: A fix is now available (Java 7 Update 7), please patch your system ASAP!

To try out this exploit: **Get your free Metasploit download now**, or update your existing installation.  Meanwhile, we will keep this blog updated when more progress has been made.

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**Aug 28 2012:** This vulnerability has been assigned as CVE-2012-4681.

**Aug 30 2012:** Oracle has released Java 7 Update 7

Wei is a Rapid7 veteran and an all-time top committer for the Metasploit Framework. Now a lead offensive security researcher for Metasploit, he specializes in vuln analysis and exploit development.

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CVE-2012-4681: Let's start the week with a new Java 0-day in Metasploit

Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Server component in Oracle MySQL 5.1.61 and earlier, and 5.5.21 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Server Optimizer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-1703.

CVE-2012-1690: Oracle Critical Patch Update - April 2012

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 5.0.5; iOS before 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPod, and iPad; iOS before 4.2.7 for iPhone 4 (CDMA); and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by adding children to a WBR tag and then removing the tag, related to text nodes, as demonstrated by Chaouki Bekrar during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2011.

**Apple, Microsoft browsers drop to first shots at the hacking contest**

Senior Reporter, Computerworld |

Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) both fell to the first hackers who tried their luck on the browsers at Wednesday's opening day of Pwn2Own.

The hacking challenge kicked off at 3:30 p.m. PT, slightly later than scheduled, at the CanSecWest security conference, which runs March 9-11 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A team from the French security company Vupen walked off with $15,000 and a new MacBook Air after exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Safari.

Earlier today, Apple updated Safari to version 5.0.4, fixing 62 vulnerabilities. But Vupen was still able to break the browser.

"Apple has just released Safari 5.0.4 and iOS 4.3 a few minutes before the Pwn2Own contest," Vupen said Wednesday afternoon on its Twitter account several hours before the contest began. "This breaks some exploits but not all!!"

HP TippingPoint, the security company that sponsors Pwn2Own, said earlier today that the last-minute Safari updates could affect who was awarded prize money.

TippingPoint's Peter Vreugdenhil said the browsers were "frozen" two weeks before today's tip-off with the then-current versions of Safari, Google's Chrome 9, Microsoft's IE8 and Mozilla's Firefox 3.6, to give researchers a stationary target.

"Exploit development does sometimes rely on certain versions and that is the reason we have frozen the devices," Vreugdenhil said in an e-mail today.

But the Safari patches still had a part to play in Vupen winning. If the vulnerability used by Vupen to hack Safari had been fixed in 5.0.4, TippingPoint would not have awarded the $15,000 prize.

Instead, the money would have gone to the first researcher who exploited the "frozen" version of Safari -- 5.0.3 was on the MacBook Air -- using a bug still present in today's update.

"As long as the latest version still has the vulnerability, and the researcher has successfully 'pwned' \[successfully compromised the computer\] with the frozen version, he or she will have won," said Vreugdenhil.

This was the first time in four years that Safari had fallen to someone other than Charlie Miller, an analyst with the security consulting group Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), and co-author of _The Mac Hackers Handbook_. Miller won at Pwn2Own in 2008, 2009 and 2010 by exploiting Safari.

Microsoft's IE8 also dropped to its first attacker, Stephen Fewer, who drew the No. 1 spot for that browser. Fewer is the founder of Harmony Security, and frequently reports bugs to TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) bounty program.

To exploit IE8, Fewer bypassed Protected Mode, said Aaron Portnoy, manager of TippingPoint's security research team and the organizer of Pwn2Own for each of its five years. Protected Mode is Microsoft's name for the sandbox-like anti-exploit technology designed to isolate the browser from the operating system and the rest of the computer.

Vupen, which was waiting in the wings in case Fewer failed, did not get a chance to try its luck against IE8.

Microsoft, which has engineers from its Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) at the Canadian contest, said it was already on the case.

"Our top security researchers are already investigating the IE exploit used in the Pwn2Own contest," the MSRC team said via Twitter Wednesday afternoon.

Earlier this week, Microsoft had said it had not updated IE -- as Apple, Google and Mozilla all did in the days leading up to the contest -- because the move would have been too disruptive to customers.

As Jerry Bryant, a group manager with MSRC, pointed out Tuesday, TippingPoint reports the vulnerabilities exploited at Pwn2Own to vendors, who have six months to fix the flaws before TippingPoint goes public with any technical information. Thus, there is little danger of any exploited bug falling into cybercriminals' hands.

In an interview after the day's activities wrapped up, TippingPoint's Portnoy said that Firefox had been rescheduled for Thursday and that the researchers who had earlier committed to tackling Chrome had either not shown up or had decided to focus on RIM's BlackBerry smartphone.

The four smartphones will be subjected to attack Thursday, Portnoy said.

Pwn2Own's smartphone track features devices running Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and RIM's BlackBerry OS. TippingPoint will award $15,000 for the first hack of each of the smartphones.

_**Gregg Keizer** covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for_ Computerworld_. Follow Gregg on Twitter at  @gkeizer or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is gkeizer@computerworld.com._

Senior Reporter Gregg Keizer covers Windows, Office, Apple/enterprise, web browsers and web apps for Computerworld.

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CVE-2011-1344: Safari, IE hacked first at Pwn2Own

WebKit in Apple iOS before 4 on the iPhone and iPod touch does not properly implement the history.replaceState method in certain situations involving IFRAME elements, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML document.

CVE-2010-1407: About the security content of iOS 4

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JavaScript DOM implementation in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by destroying a document.body element that has an unspecified XML container with elements that support the dir attribute.

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