Recommendations for deploying the latest Attack surface reduction rules for maximum impact

The keystone to good security hygiene is limiting your attack surface. Attack surface reduction is a technique to remove or constrain exploitable behaviors in your systems. In this blog, we discuss the two attack surface reduction rules introduced in the most recent release of Windows and cover...

3 Reasons Your Business Needs Security at the Edge

As a security professional, no one knows better than you that the attack surface is shifting and continues to expand across an ever-widening area. Our interconnected digital lives are wreaking havoc with the idea of "the perimeter." As digital attacks continue to grow in size and volume, and are...

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29178)

Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29176)

Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29174)

Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7637

SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-7637

SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7637

SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...

Marvell Avastar wireless SoCs have multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Some Marvell Avastar wireless system on chip SoC models have multiple vulnerabilities, including a block pool overflow during Wi-Fi network scan. Description A presentation at the ZeroNights 2018 conference describes multiple security issues with Marvell Avastar SoCs models 88W8787,...

Active Scans Target Vulnerable Cisco Routers for Remote Code-Execution

UPDATE Malicious scanning activity targeting Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN routers is underway, with a swell of opportunistic probes looking for vulnerable devices ramping up since Friday. According to Bad Packets Report’s honeypot data, cyberattackers are targeting a...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: PPID Spoofing – Explorer CLSID

Summary Popular Attack Surface Reduction bypasses allow adversaries to hinder threat hunting activities by spoofing Parent Process ID. PPID to PID relationships have always been a key indicator of compromise and removing these conditions lead to false sense of security. Upon investigation its bee...

LabKey Vulnerabilities Threaten Medical Research Data

A trio of vulnerabilities in a popular open source medical data collaboration tool leaves important healthcare research data and potentially subject information open to multiple cross site scripting XSS attacks. The flaws are serious as they allow an attacker to retrieve user credentials once a...

Fighting Fire with Fire: API Automation Risks

Akamai research shows that 83 percent of all traffic on the web today are API calls JSON / XML. In many cases this fast growth can be attributed to the adoption and popularity of mobile devices and the mobile app ecosystem, as well as the abuse by threat actors using bots to automate their manual...

Linux: Mounting of squashfs filesystems

The squashfs filesystem type is a compressed read-only Linux filesystem embedded in small footprint systems similar to cramfs. A squashfs image can be used without having to first decompress the image. Removing support for unneeded filesystem types reduces the local attack surface of the system. ...

Linux: Mounting of udf filesystems

The udf filesystem type is the universal disk format used to implement ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167 specifications. This is an open vendor filesystem type for data storage on a broad range of media. This filesystem type is necessary to support writing DVDs and newer optical disc formats. Removing...

Huawei Router Flaw Leaks Default Credential Status

A vulnerability in some Huawei routers used for carrier ISP services allows cybercriminals to identify whether the devices have default credentials or not – without ever connecting to them. CVE-2018-7900 exists in the router panel and allows credentials information to leak – so attackers can simp...

From DirectX to the Windows Kernel--a few of the CVE vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword Operating systemthe kernel is each vulnerability the use of chain final goal, we can view the Zero Day Initiative ZDI Pwn2Own calendar year, race, and understand this aspect of the content. Windows kernel has always been the attacker keen to target, my favorite is the abuse of the...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — November 2018: 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 53 vulnerabilities, 11 of which are rated "critical," 40 that are rated "important” and one “moderate” and “low” vulnerability, each. The...

Hackertarget - 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...

PT-2018-19286

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions dnsmasq affected versions not specified Description The issue arises when dnsmasq runs as the nobody user, which could lead to security problems if multiple services share the same user. This is because running multiple services under the same...