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Incident Handler, SANS Internet Storm Center
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Tom Webb is an incident handler for the SANS Internet Storm Center. He currently leads a team of six that perform incident response and forensics investigations and vulnerability management. He has 12 years dedicated to security. Tom holds several certs, including the GSE and CISSP.
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Why Vulnerable Code Is Shipped Knowingly
Chris Eng, Chief Research Officer, Veracode,  11/30/2020
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CVE-2017-14451
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-02
An exploitable out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in libevm (Ethereum Virtual Machine) of CPP-Ethereum. A specially crafted smart contract code can cause an out-of-bounds read which can subsequently trigger an out-of-bounds write resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can create/send m...
CVE-2017-2910
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-02
An exploitable Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability exists in the xls_addCell function of libxls 2.0. A specially crafted xls file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious xls file to trigger this vulnerability.
CVE-2020-13493
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-02
A heap overflow vulnerability exists in Pixar OpenUSD 20.05 when the software parses compressed sections in binary USD files. A specially crafted USDC file format path jumps decompression heap overflow in a way path jumps are processed. To trigger this vulnerability, the victim needs to open an atta...
CVE-2020-13494
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-02
A heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Pixar OpenUSD 20.05 parsing of compressed string tokens in binary USD files. A specially crafted malformed file can trigger a heap overflow which can result in out of bounds memory access which could lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability could...
CVE-2020-13496
PUBLISHED: 2020-12-02
An exploitable vulnerability exists in the way Pixar OpenUSD 20.05 handles parses certain encoded types. A specially crafted malformed file can trigger an arbitrary out of bounds memory access in TfToken Type Index. This vulnerability could be used to bypass mitigations and aid further exploitation....