Memory Corruption Archives

Kaspersky Internet Security – Memory Corruption Vulnerability

22-December-20115-January-2012Prasanna Sherekar

Vulnerability-Lab Team discovered a Memory & Pointer Corruption Vulnerability on Kaspersky Internet Security 2011/2012 & Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011/2012. Details: The vulnerability is caused by an invalid pointer corruption when processing a corrupt .cfg file through the kaspersky exception filters, which could be exploited by attackers to crash the complete software process. The bug is located […]

Windows-7 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

21-December-20114-January-2012Prasanna Sherekar

A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e.g. a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large “height” attribute viewed […]