Archive for the ‘ Vulnerability ’ Category
Understanding CVE-2012-0003: RCE in Microsoft Windows Media Player
As ever, the opinions expressed in this website are personal to me and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer. As part of January’s Patch Tuesday, we released 7 patches targeting 8 individual vulnerabilities. Out of these 8 vulnerabilities, I will talk about CVE-2012-0003 – memory corruption vulnerability in Windows Media component that [...]
Windows “Shortcuts to Pawnage”
On 16th July, 2010 a researchers found out a new shortcut to Pawn Remote System in an unusual way. They crafted a way to exploit windows shortcut files, commonly referred as .lnk file in order to gain unauthorized access to remote computer. Users need not even click the shortcut file, if s/he views it in [...]
