Tag: CVE

  • The Upside to the Provenance Problem

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] As mentioned before, Christey of CVE mentions an ongoing problem in the vulnerability world is that of “provenance”, meaning “where the hell did that come from?!” Vulnerability Databases (VDB’s) like CVE and OSVDB are big on provenance. We want to know exactly where the information came from…

  • State of vulnerability research?

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Steve Christey of CVE has posted to several lists asking What is the state of vulnerability research? Before you dismiss the question, give it serious thought for a few minutes. Have any ideas, opinions or concerns about where vuln research is heading? Where it should be? Drop…

  • 2005 CVE Program FOIA Results

    2005 CVE Program FOIA Results

    I submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on February 8, 2005, asking for funding information for the Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) program run by MITRE. I eventually received a lengthy document that had the information I had requested, and a lot more. My FOIA request: I…

  • Perl Format Strings

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Dyad Security announced a new vulnerability in the Webmin miniserv.pl web server component. The perl is vulnerable to a format string bug, which is mostly unseen in perl and quite common in C programs. The post calls this a “a new class of exploitable (remote code) perl…

  • SANS Top 20 Report Value

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] SANS has released their Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities for 2005. Started in June 2000, “the SANS Institute and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) at the FBI released a document summarizing the Ten Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities”. The list was designed to help administrators tackle…

  • Vulnerability Classification Terminology

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] Local or remote, seems so simple when classifying a vulnerability. The last few years have really thrown this simple distinction for a loop. Think of a vulnerability that occurs when processing a file, such as a browser rendering a JPG or GIF, or a program like Adobe…

  • MusicPlasma for Vulnerabilities

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] A couple years back, I ran across musicplasma. For those not familiar with the engine, it allows you to type in your favorite music artist/band, and see “related” artists. So I type in “portishead” (mmmm) and see related bands like Tricky, and Sneakerpimps. These are all considered…

  • Classification Headache: Remote vs Local

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-07/0238.html From: Derek Martin (code[at]pizzashack.org)Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 – 21:39:30 CDT The issue has come up on bugtraq before, but I think it is worth raising it again. The question is how to classify attacks against users’ client programs which come from the Internet, e.g. an…