Microsoft Publisher 'Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)' Attacks Security Advisory (4053440)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Security Advisory 4053440. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Microsoft Excel 'Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)' Attacks Security Advisory (4053440)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Security Advisory 4053440. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory on Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)

Microsoft has released an advisory that provides guidance on securing Dynamic Data Exchange DDE fields in Microsoft Office applications. Exploitation of this protocol may allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Microsoft...

Unpatched Microsoft Word DDE Exploit Being Used In Widespread Malware Attacks

A newly discovered unpatched attacking method that exploits a built-in feature of Microsoft Office is currently being used in various widespread malware attack campaigns. Last week we reported how hackers could leveraging an old Microsoft Office feature called Dynamic Data Exchange DDE, to perfor...

The vulnerability of the tdx.sys component, which is used to check the length of the operating system’s buffer, allows a hacker to exploit their privileges.

The vulnerability of the tdx.sys component, which is used to check the length of operating system Windows buffers, is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an intruder, operating locally, to increase their privileges...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: python-cjson-1.1.0-9.fc25

This module implements a very fast JSON encoder/decoder for Python. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and is a text based lightweight data exchange format which is easy for humans to read/write and for machines to parse/generate. JSON is completely language independent and has multiple...

libical heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CNVD-2016-04383)

libical is a set of open source for the implementation of iCalendar Calendar Data Exchange Standard protocols and protocol data units . A security vulnerability exists in libical. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a heap out-of-bounds read...

appRain 4.0.3 Cross Site Request Forgery

Security Advisory - Curesec Research Team 1. Introduction Affected Product: appRain 4.0.3 Fixed in: Fixed via Optional Module CSRF Protection Module http://www.apprain.com/extension/20/accounting-system?s Link: =Description Vendor Website: [email protected] Vulnerability Type: CSRF Remote...

Kim Dotcom's Decentralized Internet — For You, Powered By You

Imagine the internet that would offer you to communicate privately with anyone else without censorship, safe from the prying eyes of surveillance authorities…. … Decentralized, Encrypted, Peer-to-Peer Supported and especially a non-IP Address based Internet. Yeah, a New Private Internet that woul...

The vulnerability of the Cisco IOS operating system, which allows a intruder to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the PRE module of the Cisco IOS operating system is related to resource management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service interruptions by triggering errors during data exchange between devices...

New Cyber Threat Center May Face Challenges

In the wake of news-making attacks on Sony Pictures, Home Depot and many others, the federal government is establishing a new information integration center to focus on cyber threats. The center will analyze intelligence contributed by several agencies, along with the private sector, a model that...

The U.S. Department of Energy's security threat intelligence use cases for Flexible Transform-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

2015-01-07 2 2:0 5 ! Slide 1 Recently will continue to share the collection to the security threat intelligence-related material, the first a first to a U.S. Department of Energy's security threat intelligence practice. Security threat intelligence technology in the United States has been widely...

Smartwatch Hacked... Data Exchange with Smartphone Not So Secure

We are living in an era of smart devices that we sync with our smartphones and make our lives very simple and easy, but these smart devices that inter-operates with our phones could leave our important and personal data wide open to hackers and cybercriminals. Security researchers have demonstrat...

SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere OpenSSL TLS心跳信息泄漏漏洞

CVE ID:CVE-2014-0160 SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere是一套全面的解决方案,它提供了数据管理、同步和数据交换技术,可快速在远程和移动环境中开发并配置数据库驱动的应用程序。 SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere所绑定的OpenSSL存在安全漏洞，OpenSSL处理TLS”心跳“扩展存在一个边界错误，允许攻击者利用漏洞获取64k大小的已链接客户端或服务器的内存内容。内存信息可包括私钥，用户名密码等。 0 SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 12.x SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16.x SAP Sybase SQL...

[MISP v2.1] Malware Information Sharing Platform

The problem that we experienced in the past was the difficulty to exchange information about targeted malwares and attacks within a group of trusted partners, or a bilateral agreement. Even today much of the information exchange happens in unstructured reports where you have to copy-paste the...

Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must run a malicious executable. The specific flaw exists within the handling of Dynamic Data Exchange...

[Open SCAP v0.9.5] Support of SCE - Script Check Engine

SCAP is a line of standards managed by NIST. It was created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of enterprise systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for signs of compromise...

Shift May Be Coming for Information Sharing on Attacks

ANAHEIM, CALIF.–The sharing of information on threats and attacks between government agencies and companies in the private sector has been tried numerous times and in many different ways over the last decade, with varying degrees of success. The need for information flowing in both directions...

Scientific Linux Security Update : system-config-firewall on SL6.x i386/x86_64

system-config-firewall is a graphical user interface for basic firewall setup. It was found that system-config-firewall used the Python pickle module in an insecure way when sending data via D-Bus to the privileged back-end mechanism. A local user authorized to configure firewall rules using...

Google Chrome 'HTTP session' Information Disclosure Vulnerability - Linux

Google Chrome is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 ifdescription...