Vulnerability Spotlight: AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL shader functionality remote code execution vulnerability

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Some AMD Radeon cards contain a remote code execution vulnerability in their ATIDXX64.DLL driver. AMD produces the Radeon line of hardware, which includes graphics cards and graphics processing units. This specific vulnerability exists on...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Sept. 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

By Jon Munshaw. Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 85 vulnerabilities, 19 of which are rated “critical," 65 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." There is also a...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service vulnerabilities in some NETGEAR routers

Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. The NETGEAR N300 line of wireless routers contains two denial-of-service vulnerabilities. The N300 is a small and affordable wireless router that contains the basic features of a wireless router. An attacker could exploit these bugs b...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Aspose APIs

Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in various Aspose APIs. Aspose provides a series of APIs for manipulating or converting a large family of document formats. These vulnerabilities exist in AP...

Talos Black Hat 2019 flash talk roundup

Talos went wall-to-wall at Hacker Summer Camp, showing up to Black Hat and DEFCON with talks, challenges, advice and education. Over the course of two days at Black Hat, Cisco Security hosted more than 20 talks at our booth, many featuring Talos researchers and analysts. In case you couldn't swin...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Aug. 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 97 vulnerabilities, 31 of which are rated “critical," 65 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." This month’s security update cover...

New Re2PCAP tool speeds up PCAP process for Snort rules

By Amit Raut We often joke that for SNORT® rule development, you have to live by the saying “PCAP or it didn’t happen.” PCAP files are very important for Snort rule development, and a new tool from Cisco Talos called “Re2Pcap” allows users to generate a PCAP file in seconds just from a raw HTTP...

Reverse-CTF, Snort rule challenge and more — What to expect from Talos at Defcon

Want to get up close and personal with Talos researchers? Then be sure to stick around for the second half of “Hacker Summercamp:” Defcon. After our series of talks at Blackhat, we’re headed elsewhere on the strip for Defcon. Specifically, we’ll have a huge presence at this year’s Blue Team...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — July 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 77 vulnerabilities, 16 of which are rated “critical," 60 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." This month’s security update cover...

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Google V8 Array.prototype memory corruption vulnerability

The V8 JavaScript engine in Google Chrome contains a memory corruption vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain the ability to execute arbitrary code on the victim’s machine. V8 is the core JavaScript engine that runs in the Chrome browser. As part of Chrome and node.is, it is the most...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — June 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 88 vulnerabilities, 18 of which are rated “critical," 69 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." This release also includes a...

Using Firepower to defend against encrypted RDP attacks like BlueKeep

This blog was authored by Brandon Stultz Microsoft recently released fixes for a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol Services RDP. Identified as CVE-2019-0708 in May's Patch Tuesday, the vulnerability caught the attention of researchers and t...

Talos releases coverage for 'wormable' Microsoft vulnerability

Last night, Cisco Talos released the latest SNORT® rule update, which includes coverage for the critical Microsoft vulnerability CVE-2019-0708. The company disclosed this vulnerability last week as part of its monthly security update. This particular bug exists in Remote Desktop Services — former...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — May 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 79 vulnerabilities, 22 of which are rated “critical," 55 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." This release also includes two...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Wacom Update Helper

Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Executive summary There are two privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Wacom update helper. The update helper is a utility installed alongside the macOS application for Wacom tablets. The application interacts with the tablet and...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution bug in Antenna House Rainbow PDF Office document converter

Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Executive summary A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Antenna House’s Rainbow PDF when the software attempts to convert a PowerPoint document. Rainbow PDF has the ability to convert Microsoft Office 97-2016 documents into a PDF...

Threat Source newsletter (May 9)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Symantec Endpoint Protection kernel memory information disclosure vulnerability

Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Overview Cisco Talos is disclosing an information leak vulnerability in the ccSetx86.sys kernel driver of Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition. The vulnerability exists in the driver’s control message handler. An attacker ca...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial of service in VMWare Workstation 15

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Executive summary VMware Workstation 15 contains an exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability. Workstation allows users to run multiple operating systems on a Linux or Windows PC. An attacker could trigger this particular vulnerability...