Hi there,
It seems that there has been inactivity on the site, so sorry!. To compensate, special offer today: 3x1.


1. Wintercore presents the real proactive Computer Vision Based Anti-Phishing Engine - ARTICA -.

We have been hardly working on this engine and today the first beta sees the light. We are proud :)

ARTICA is the first anti-phishing engine based on Computer Vision techniques which guarantees by definition its proactivity. ARTICA emulates the natural human behaviour plus the common logic a security researcher uses to apply while detecting phishing webpages. All the process is carried out without any manual interaction. To sum up: whatever you see, Artica sees it as well. A picture is worth a thousand words.

This technology poses a step forward in the automation of phishing detecion, deprecating other reactive url-based methods. This brings us powerful novel capabilities i.e we can automatically identify the entity that is being impersonated. Therefore this engine offers a valuable help to those Companies that need to automate the phishing detection.

In order to achieve the best performance and introduce the novel concepts the engine involves we are announcing a public Call For Testers. This program is restricted to companies and/or institutions.

All the information is available at http://www.wintercore.com


Time to talk about the february advisories.

2.Microsoft Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Microsoft Word 2003 is prone to a memory corruption vulnerability while parsing a specially crafted Word file. The vulnerability is caused by calculation errors while parsing certain fields within the barely documented, File Information Block (FIB).

This could lead to remote arbitrary code execution in the context of the user who started the application.

Microsoft has addressed this issue (among others) in its february bulletin: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-009.mspx

Disclosure Timeline:
07/02/2007 - Vendor Contacted
07/02/2007 - Vendor Acknowledged
01/10/2008 - Vendor confirms vulnerability and plans to fix it.
02/12/2008 - Coordinated disclosure


3. Fortinet FortiClient Local Privilege Escalation.

Fortinet Endpoint Solution For Enterprise, FortiClient is prone to a local privilege escalation due to the improper device filtering carried out by its filter driver, fortimon.sys .

The driver affected filters certain devices, enabling pass-through filtering. However, its own Device's DeviceExtension is not correclty initialized so any logged user could force the kernel to operate with user-mode controlled memory just by direclty issuing a special request to the driver's device.

This leads to local arbitrary code execution in the context of the kernel. Even Guest users can elevate privileges to SYSTEM.

This issue has been addressed in the following releases:
+ FortiClient 3.0 MR5 Patch 4
+ FortiClient 3.0 MR6

Affected versions:
+ FortiClient 3.0 MR5 Patch 3 and lower

Users can consult the patches via http://docs.forticare.com/firmware.xml
Fortinet Advisory: http://kc.forticare.com/default.asp?id=3618

Disclosure Timeline:
01/18/2008 - Vendor Contacted
01/18/2008 - Vendor Acknowledged
01/29/2008 - Vendor confirms vulnerability and plans to fix it.
02/13/2008 - Coordinated disclosure