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Vulnerability Spotlight: Microsoft Office class attribute double-free vulnerability
Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered a class attribute double-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office is a suite of tools used for productivity in both a corporate environment as well as by end-users. It offers a ran...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader could lead to arbitrary code execution
Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered several use-after-free vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader that could lead to arbitrary code execution. The Foxit Reader is one of the most popular PDF document readers, which aims to have feature pari...
Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 3, 2022): Mastodon, evolution, and LiveJournal oh my!
Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Im fascinated by how things live and die on the internet. Things that are ubiquitous to our daily lives are simply gone the next. LiveJournal and Myspace we hardly knew you. Elon Musks purchase of Twitter and the subsequent exodus led...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple issues in Robustel R1510 cellular router could lead to code execution, denial of service
Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered nine vulnerabilities in the Robustel R1510 industrial cellular router, several of which could allow an adversary to inject operating system code remotely. The Robustel R1510 router is a...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Data deserialization in VMware vCenter could lead to remote code execution
Marcin "Icewall" Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable data deserialization vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server platform. VMware is one of the most popular virtual machine solutions currently available, and its vCenter software...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Data deserialization in VMware vCenter could lead to remote code execution
Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable data deserialization vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server platform. VMware is one of the most popular virtual machine solutions currently available, and it...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Issue in Hancom Office 2020 could lead to code execution
Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in Hancom Office 2020. Hancom Office is a popular software collection among South Korean users that offers similar products to...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Three vulnerabilities in HDF5 file format could lead to remote code execution
Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered three vulnerabilities in a library that works with the HDF5 file format that could allow an attacker to execute remote code on a targeted device. These issues arise in the libhdf5...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Alyac antivirus program could stop virus scanning, cause code execution
Jaewon Min of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Update Aug. 3, 2022: Talos disclosed two new vulnerabilities in the Alyac antivirus software and added their details to this post. Cisco Talos recently discovered out-of-bounds read and buffer overflow vulnerabilitie...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Issue in Accusoft ImageGear could lead to memory corruption, code execution
Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in Accusoft ImageGear's PSD header processing function. The ImageGear library is a document-imaging developer toolkit that allows users to create,...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free condition in Google Chrome WebGPU
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome’s WebGPU standard. Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser — and Chromium is the open-source version of the browser tha...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat DC use-after-free issues could lead to arbitrary code execution
Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered two use-after-free vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC that could allow an attacker to eventually gain the ability to execute arbitrary code. Acrobat is one of the most...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
By Jon Munshaw and Tiago Pereira. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing more than 80 vulnerabilities in the company’s various software, hardware and firmware offerings, including one that’s actively being exploited in the wild. July's security update... This is only t...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
By Chetan Raghuprasad. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 55 vulnerabilities in the company’s firmware and software. One of these vulnerabilities is considered critical, 40 are listed as high severity, and the remainder is considered "moderate." The most... This is...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
By Jon Munshaw, with contributions from Jaeson Schultz. Microsoft returned to its normal monthly patching volume in May, disclosing and fixing 74 vulnerabilities as part of the company’s latest security update. This month’s Patch Tuesday includes seven critical vulnerabilities after Microsoft...
Vulnerability in Spring Cloud Function Framework Affecting Cisco Products: March 2022
On March 29, 2022, the following critical vulnerability in the Spring Cloud Function Framework affecting releases 3.1.6, 3.2.2, and older unsupported releases was disclosed: CVE-2022-22963: Remote code execution in Spring Cloud Function by malicious Spring Expression For a description of this...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
By Jon Munshaw and Edmund Brumaghin. Microsoft released another relatively light security update Tuesday, disclosing 71 vulnerabilities, including fixes for issues in Azure and the Office suite of products. March’s Patch Tuesday only included two critical vulnerabilities, which is notable... This...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Feb. 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
By Jon Munshaw and Chris Neal. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 51 vulnerabilities across its large collection of hardware and software. None of the vulnerabilities disclosed this month are considered “critical,” an extreme rarity for the company’s... This is onl...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Jan. 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
By Jon Munshaw and Vitor Ventura. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 102 vulnerabilities across its large collection of hardware and software. This is the largest amount of vulnerabilities Microsoft has disclosed in a monthly security update in eight months,... Thi...
