HP PC BIOS August 2022 Security Updates for Potential SMM and TOCTOU Vulnerabilities

Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in the system BIOS of certain HP PC products, which might allow arbitrary code execution, escalation of privilege, denial of service, and information disclosure. HP is releasing BIOS updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities. HP has...

RHEL 9 : vim (RHSA-2022:5942)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5942 advisory. Vim Vi IMproved is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Security Fixes: vim: Out-of-bounds Write CVE-2022-1785 vim: out-of-boun...

Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (August 2022)

The Microsoft Office Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability: - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. CVE-2022-34717 Note that Nessus has no...

August 9, 2022-KB5015732 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 11

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Vulnerabilities fixed in X.Org Server

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in X.Org Server. A authenticated malicious person can exploit the vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code. Depending on the permissions under which X.Org Server is running, this allows the malicious party to gain gain root privileges on the vulnerable system. The...

F5 Releases Security Updates

F5 has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A privileged attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the F5 security advisories and apply the necessary updates...

Stable Channel Promotion for ChromeOS

Hello All, The Stable channel is being updated to 104.0.5112.83 Platform version: 14909.100.0 for most ChromeOS devices and will be rolled out over the next few days. For Chrome browser fixes, see the Chrome Desktop release announcement. If you find new issues, please let us know one of the...

CentOS 7 : xorg-x11-server (RHSA-2022:5905)

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5905 advisory. - A flaw was found in the Xorg-x11-server. An out-of-bounds access issue can occur in the ProcXkbSetGeometry function due to improper validation of the...

RHEL 7 : xorg-x11-server (RHSA-2022:5905)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5905 advisory. X.Org is an open-source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical use...

VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in VMware’s Workspace ONE Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, Identity Manager Connector, and vRealize Automation. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system...

RHEL 8 : 389-ds:1.4 (RHSA-2022:5823)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5823 advisory. 389 Directory Server is an LDAP version 3 LDAPv3 compliant server. The base packages include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP...

CentOS 7 : 389-ds-base (RHSA-2022:5239)

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5239 advisory. - A vulnerability was discovered in the 389 Directory Server that allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the LDAP port to cause a...

CentOS 8 : ruby:2.5 (CESA-2022:5779)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2022:5779 advisory. - ruby: Regular expression denial of service vulnerability of Date parsing methods CVE-2021-41817 - ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse...

RHEL 8 : ruby:2.5 (RHSA-2022:5779)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5779 advisory. Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system...

Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC and the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC found a private-sector offensive actor PSOA using multiple Windows and Adobe 0-day exploits, including one for the recently patched CVE-2022-22047, in limited and targeted attacks against European and...

Malicious IIS Extensions Gaining Popularity Among Cyber Criminals for Persistent Access

Threat actors are increasingly abusing Internet Information Services IIS extensions to backdoor servers as a means of establishing a "durable persistence mechanism." That's according to a new warning from the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, which said that "IIS backdoors are also harder to...

Samba Releases Security Updates

The Samba Team has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Samba. An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following Samba Security Announcements and...

Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. These updates address vulnerabilities attackers could exploit to take control of affected systems. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Apple security updates and apply necessary releases. This...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. Some of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. CISA...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 103.0.5060.134 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Chrome Release Note and apply the necessary updates...