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

By Jon Munshaw. Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing vulnerabilities across many of its products and releasing corresponding updates. This month's Patch Tuesday covers 25 vulnerabilities, two of which are considered critical. This month’s security update covers securit...

Vulnerability Spotlight: AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL shader functionality sincos denial-of-service vulnerability

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in a specific dll inside of the AMD ATI Radeon line of video cards. This vulnerability can be triggered by supplying a malformed pixel shader inside a...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Tenda AC9 /goform/WanParameterSetting command injection vulnerability

Amit Raut of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a command injection vulnerability in the Tenda AC9 router. The Tenda AC9 is one of the most popular and affordable dual-band gigabit WiFi Router available online, especially on Amazon. A command injection...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Command injection bug in Exhibitor UI

Logan Sanderson of Cisco ASIG discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Exhibitor Web UI contains an exploitable command injection vulnerability in its Config editor. Exhibitor is a ZooKeeper supervisory process. Exhibitor's Web UI does not have any form of authentication, and prior to...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service vulnerability in Intel IGC64 graphics driver

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Intel’s IGC64.dll graphics driver contains a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this bug by supplying a malformed pixel shader if the graphics driver is operating inside a VMware guest operating...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Nov. 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 discloses 75 vulnerabilities, 13 of which are considered "critical," with the rest being deemed "important." This month’s security...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Media Foundation

Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Microsoft Media Foundation’s framework contains a remote code execution vulnerability that exists due to a use-after-free condition. This specific bug lies in Media Foundation's MPEG4 DLL. An attacker could provide a...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service in VMWare Fusion 11

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Executive summary VMware Fusion 11 contains an exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability. VMWare Fusion is an application for Mac operating systems that allows users to run other OSs in a virtual environment, such as Windows and Linux. A...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Another fix for Adobe Acrobat Reader DC text field value remote code execution

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos once again would like to bring attention to a remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat, which is one of the most popular PDF readers on the market, contains a bug when the software incorrectly...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Foxit PDF Reader JavaScript Array.includes remote code execution vulnerability

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Foxit PDF Reader contains a remote code execution vulnerability in its JavaScript engine. Foxit aims to be one of the most feature-rich PDF readers on the market, and contains many similar functions to that of Adobe Acrobat Reader...

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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