Microsoft Releases October 2015 Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released six updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft Security Bulletins MS15-106 through...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud CC and Bridge CC to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of one of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Adobe...

June 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

IT administrators today were granted a relatively light month of security bulletins from Microsoft, which is likely to be welcomed given that Windows Server 2003 security support ends in little more than a month. Microsoft today released eight bulletins, two of them rated critical, including a...

June 2015 Updates

Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 8 security bulletins. We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including the detailed view of the Exploitability Index XI, visit the Microsoft Bulletin Summary webpage. If you are...

May 2015 Updates

Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 13 security bulletins. We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including a detailed view of the Exploitability Index XI, visit the Microsoft Bulletin Summary webpage. If you are n...

May 2015 Adobe Reader, Acrobat Security Updates

Microsoft may no longer provide its customers with free advance notification of upcoming Patch Tuesday security updates, but Adobe continues to give users of its Reader and Acrobat products a gratis head’s up of what’s coming. The company yesterday said it is planning to release security updates...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Flash Player, ColdFusion, and Flex

Adobe has released three security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Flash Player, ColdFusion, and Flex. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system, or lead to a reflected cross-site scripting attack. Users and...

April 2015 Updates

Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released 11 security bulletins. We encourage customers to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including the detailed view of the Exploitability Index XI, visit the Microsoft Bulletin Summary webpage. If you are...

MS15-041: Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Information Disclosure (3048010)

The remote Windows host has a version of the Microsoft .NET Framework installed that is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability due to improper handling of requests on web servers that have custom error messages disabled. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this issue, via ...

Adobe Starts Vulnerability Disclosure Program on HackerOne

Update: Adobe is the latest tech vendor to begin a vulnerability disclosure program, but it seems they’re limping in at the outset. The program launched this week on the HackerOne platform, but there are no cash incentives being offered and certain Adobe products are not in scope for researchers...

January 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

For the first time in more than a decade, the majority of Windows IT shops walked blindly into Patch Tuesday. After announcing last week that it would no longer provide its Advanced Notification Service of upcoming security bulletins to the public, Microsoft today ladeled eight bulletins upon...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Content Rating (content_rating)

It has been discovered that the extension "Content Rating" contentrating is susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection. Release Date: January 9, 2015 Bulletin Update: February 23, 2015 added CVEs Component Type: Third party extension. This extension is not a part of the TYPO3 default...

Microsoft Shuts Down Patch Tuesday Advanced Notifications

Microsoft today pulled the plug on its Advanced Notification Service ANS, offering it going forward only to paying Premier customers. ANS preceded the release of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins; on the Thursday prior, Microsoft would provide users via its security website a...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Flash, Reader, Acrobat, and ColdFusion

Adobe has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Flash, Reader, Acrobat, and ColdFusion. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take over an affected system. US-CERT recommends users and administrators review Adobe Security Bulletins...

December 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Advance Notification

Microsoft made patch news on two fronts last month with an unusual emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in Kerberos, and for a missing fix for an Exchange bug that was promised in its November advanced notification. In the December advance notification, released today, an elevation...

Project Zero Patch Tuesday roundup, November 2014

Posted by Chris Evans, Registrar of Bugs It’s been about a week since Patch Tuesday, and the Project Zero reports mentioned in the various advisories are now public. We won’t always be writing a Patch Tuesday roundup, but we often will when we believe there is a sufficiently varied and interestin...

MS14-071: Vulnerability in Windows Audio Service Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005607)

The remote Windows host is affected by a vulnerability in the Windows Audio service component that allows privilege escalation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges but not execute code. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description...

November 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

A busy Microsoft Patch Tuesday arrived today with an extra sense of urgency and a complication. Among 14 bulletins, four of which are rated critical by Microsoft, is a patch for the OLE zero-day vulnerability being used in a number of targeted attacks. The zero-day is being spread via email...

Microsoft OneNote Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (2977201)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-048 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE ...

August 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins, and the top priority is another cumulative update for Internet Explorer; this one patches 26 vulnerabilities, including one that’s been publicly reported, Microsoft said, and is likely being exploited. All of them are rated...