Microsoft DirectWrite - Out-of-Bounds Read in sfac_GetSbitBitmap While Processing TTF Fonts

Microsoft DirectWrite - Out-of-Bounds Read in sfacGetSbitBitmap While Processing TTF Fonts Microsoft DirectWrite is a modern Windows API for high-quality text rendering. A majority of its code resides in the DWrite.dll user-mode library. It is used by a variety of widely used desktop programs suc...

Microsoft DirectWrite - Out-of-Bounds Read in sfac_GetSbitBitmap While Processing TTF Fonts

Microsoft DirectWrite is a modern Windows API for high-quality text rendering. A majority of its code resides in the DWrite.dll user-mode library. It is used by a variety of widely used desktop programs such as web browsers and constitutes an attack surface for memory corruption bugs, as it...

BLUESPAWN - Windows Based Active Defense Tool To Empower Blue Teams

BLUESPAWN helps blue teams monitor Windows systems in real-time against active attackers by detecting anomalous activity Why we made BLUESPAWN We've created and open-sourced this for a number of reasons which include the following: Move Faster : We wanted tooling specifically designed to quickly...

'USBAnywhere' Bugs Open Supermicro Servers to Remote Attackers

Authentication vulnerabilities in the baseboard management controllers BMCs of Supermicro X9-X11 servers have been discovered that allow a remote attacker to easily connect to a server and mount any virtual USB device of their choosing. The bugs, collectively dubbed USBAnywhere, allow an attacker...

HackerTarget ToolKit v2.0 - Tools And Network Intelligence To Help Organizations With Attack Surface Discovery

Use open source tools and network intelligence to help organizations with attack surface discovery and identification of security vulnerabilities. Identification of an organizations vulnerabilities is an impossible task without tactical intelligence on the network footprint. By combining open...

HVACking: Understanding the Delta Between Security and Reality

ARCHIVED STORY HVACking: Understanding the Delta Between Security and Reality By Douglas McKee · August 09, 2019 The McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research team is committed to uncovering security issues in both software and hardware to help developers provide safer products for businesses and...

The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero While there have been several rumours and reports of fully remote vulnerabilities affecting the iPhone being used by attackers in the last couple of years, limited information is available about the technical details of these vulnerabilities, as well as...

Time to Transfer Risk: Why Security Complexity & VPNs Are No Longer Sustainable

We all heed the gospel of patching, but as recent incidents made clear, even cutting-edge disruptors struggle to patch everything, everywhere, and all the time. Maybe this is associated with the growing volume of common vulnerabilities and exposures CVEs. As they say, there is only one way and...

CVE-2019-2240: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

While sending the rendered surface content to the screen, Error handling is not properly checked results in an unpredictable behaviour in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT,...

Fails and Fixes with IoT

After nearly 6 years of tearing apart 'internet of things' devices, here's a look at the high level fails that we keep seeing. We're not going to go in to point issues such as Wi-Fi credential leakage and Bluetooth compromise: our blog is littered with those! What are the root issues and what can...

We can control you see the content: mainstream IPTV remote code execution vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

About a year ago, Check Point Research Team found that the Ukrainian TV streaming platform, there is a serious vulnerability, once exploited, could enable service providers face a serious risk. Specifically, an attacker can get the entire customer database of personal information and financial...

Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap

The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...

Researcher Exploits Microsoft's Notepad to 'Pop a Shell'

A memory corruption bug in the Microsoft’s Windows Notepad application can be used to open remote shell access – typically a first step for attackers infiltrating a system. The bug was found by Tavis Ormandy, a bug hunter with Google’s Project Zero team. In a tweet he indicated that the bug was...

PT-2019-6461

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions through 5.1.5 Description The issue is related to the ip6 ra control function in the net/ipv6/ipv6 sockglue.c component of the Linux kernel, which is associated with errors in pointer dereferencing. Exploitation of this...

Step 9. Protect your OS: top 10 actions to secure your environment

In “Step 9. Protect your OS” of the Top 10 actions to secure your environment blog series, we provide resources to help you configure Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP to defend your Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android devices from advanced threats. In an...

Microsoft Guidance to mitigate Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilities

Executive Summary On May 14, 2019, Intel published information about a new subclass of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities may be able to read privileged data across trust...

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Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations

Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...

Using Semmle QL vulnerability out Part2-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

First part of this series introduced the Semmle QL, as well as the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC how to use it to review to our report the vulnerability. This article discusses a How do we take the initiative to use it examples, including Azure firmware component of a security audit. Th...

Android Messaging: A Few Bugs Short of a Chain

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero About a year and a half ago, I did some research into Android messaging and mail clients. At the time, I didn’t blog about it, because though I found bugs, I wasn’t able to assemble them into a credible attack. However, in the spirit of writing about...