Showmax: Parental Pin Bypass

The security researcher contacted us about improper PIN protection authorisation on our content. Showmax users can setup parental PIN protection for different levels of content maturity. If such content is accessed, the user must enter the PIN. It was reported that the PIN protection is easily...

CVE-2020-36188

A flaw was found in jackson-databind. FasterXML mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. Mitigation The following conditions are needed for an exploit, w...

Facebook’s Mandatory Data-Sharing Rules for WhatsApp Spark Ire

WhatsApp is asking users to accept a new privacy policy that will share all of their data with Facebook beginning Feb. 8, a move that has users sounding an alarm once again about the privacy of their information in the hands of the social media giant. The Facebook-owned messaging service already...

USN-4680-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that debugfs in the Linux kernel as used by blktrace contained a use-after-free in some situations. A privileged local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-19770 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the binder IPC...

USN-4679-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the console keyboard driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2020-25656 Minh Yuan discovered that the tty driver in the Linux kernel contained race conditions when handling...

Mozilla Rust rocket crate competitive conditions issue vulnerability

Rust is a general-purpose, compiled programming language from the Mozilla Foundation. A contention condition issue vulnerability exists in rocket crate in versions of Mozilla Rust prior to 0.4.5, which stems from LocalRequest::clone creating multiple mutable references to the same object, which c...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in SoftMaker Office TextMaker

A Cisco Talos team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in SoftMaker's TextMaker software. A user could trigger these vulnerabilities by opening an attacker-created, malicious document. An adversary could use these...

Google Android Competitive Conditions Issue Vulnerability

Google Android is a Linux-based open source operating system from the USGoogleOpen Handheld Alliance Google. Google Android OS suffers from a competitive conditions issue vulnerability that arises from improper handling of concurrent access when concurrent code requires mutually exclusive access ...

FreeBSD FTPD Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of FreeBSD FTPD. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the enforcement of permissions. The process does not properly handle exceptional conditions. An...

CVE-2020-7537

A CWE-754: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability exists in Modicon M580, Modicon M340, Legacy Controllers Modicon Quantum & Modicon Premium see security notifications for affected versions, that could cause denial of service when a specially crafted Read Physical Memo...

CVE-2020-7549

A CWE-754: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability exists in the Web Server on Modicon M340, Legacy Offers Modicon Quantum and Modicon Premium and associated Communication Modules see security notification for affected versions, that could cause denial of HTTP and FTP...

Design/Logic Flaw

A CWE-754: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability exists in Modicon M580, Modicon M340, Legacy Controllers Modicon Quantum & Modicon Premium see security notifications for affected versions, that could cause denial of service when a specially crafted Read Physical Memo...

Design/Logic Flaw

An improper handling of exceptional conditions vulnerability in Cortex XDR Agent allows a local authenticated Windows user to create files in the software's internal program directory that prevents the Cortex XDR Agent from starting. The exceptional condition is persistent and prevents Cortex XDR...

CVE-2020-2020

The CVE-2020-2020 issue affects Cortex XDR Agent on Windows, caused by improper handling of exceptional conditions in the agent’s internal directory. This allows a local authenticated user to create files that prevent the agent from starting, with the problem persisting after reboot. Affected ver...

CVE-2020-2020: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

An improper handling of exceptional conditions vulnerability in Cortex XDR Agent allows a local authenticated Windows user to create files in the software's internal program directory that prevents the Cortex XDR Agent from starting. The exceptional condition is persistent and prevents Cortex XDR...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2020:2822-1)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : CVE-2020-25604: Fixed a race condition when migrating timers between x86 HVM vCPU-s bsc1176343,XSA-336 CVE-2020-25595: Fixed an issue where PCI passthrough code was reading back hardware registers bsc1176344,XSA-337 CVE-2020-25597: Fixed an issue...

CVE-2020-27756

In ParseMetaGeometry of MagickCore/geometry.c, image height and width calculations can lead to divide-by-zero conditions which also lead to undefined behavior. This flaw can be triggered by a crafted input file processed by ImageMagick and could impact application availability. The patch uses...

Privilege Escalation

intel-microcode is vulnerable to privilege escalation. Allows an local authenticated malicious user to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper conditions check. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges, obtain confidential information or cause a denia...

Heap Corruption

Failure to check error conditions in V8 in Google Chrome allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2020-29561: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

An issue was discovered in SonicBOOM riscv-boom 3.0.0. For LR, it does not avoid acquiring a reservation in the case where a load translates successfully but still generates an exception...