Apple Intel HD3000 Graphics kernel driver patch

While the iMessage crypto bug got most of the attention among this week’s Apple patches, another vulnerability that was addressed represents a nasty trend of privilege escalation flaws that merit watching. Researchers at Cisco on Wednesday disclosed details on a flaw in an OS X graphics kernel...

Trane Comfortlink II DSS Service Request Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2016-0026 Trane Comfortlink II DSS Service Request Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability February 8, 2016 CVE Number CVE-2015-2868 Description An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Trane ComfortLink II DSS service. An attacker who...

Trane ComfortLink II SCC Service Hardcoded Credentials Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2016-0028 Trane ComfortLink II SCC Service Hardcoded Credentials Vulnerability February 8, 2016 CVE Number CVE-2015-2867 Description A design flaw in the Trane ComfortLink II SCC service allows remote attackers to take complete control of the system. During system...

Cisco MiniUPnP Stack Smashing Protection Attack

The Internet of Things security challenge is twofold: finding bugs, and more urgent—fixing them. Cisco’s Talos security intelligence and research group found and privately disclosed a serious and trivially exploitable client-side bug in MiniUPnP that was patched in September of last year. The...

openSUSE Security Update : libebml / libmatroska (openSUSE-2016-37)

This update for libebml, libmatroska fixes the following security issues : Vulnerabilities fixed in libebml : - Cisco TALOS-CAN-0036: Invalid memory access when reading from a UTF-8 string resulted in a heap information leak bsc961031. - Cisco TALOS-CAN-0037: Deeply nested elements with infinite...

Pro PoS Malware Simple, But Less Sophisticated Than Initially Thought

A strain of point-of-sale malware that began making the rounds on underground markets late last month is easy to use, but less sophisticated than initial reports suggested. According to researchers at Talos, Cisco’s research division, Pro PoS is mostly built on Alina, another type of POS malware...

Updated libebml packages fix security vulnerability

In EbmlMaster::Read in libebml before 1.3.3, when the parser encountered a deeply nested element with an infinite size then a following element of an upper level was not propagated correctly. Instead the element with the infinite size was added into the EBML element tree a second time resulting i...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3379-1] miniupnpc security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3379-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso October 25, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3379-1] miniupnpc security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3379-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso October 25, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3379-1 (miniupnpc - security update)

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the XML parser functionality of miniupnpc, a UPnP IGD client lightweight library. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the miniupnpc library to crash, or potentially to execu...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in ntpd Affecting Cisco Products - October 2015

Multiple Cisco products incorporate a version of the ntpd package. Versions of this package are affected by one or more vulnerabilities that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create a denial of service DoS condition or modify the time being advertised by a device acting as a...

Network Time Protocol ntpd multiple integer overflow read access violations

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2015-0052 Network Time Protocol ntpd multiple integer overflow read access violations October 21, 2015 CVE Number CVE-2015-7848 Description When processing a specially crafted private mode packet, an integer overflow can occur leading to out of bounds memory copy...

Network Time Protocol ntpq atoascii Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2015-0063 Network Time Protocol ntpq atoascii Memory Corruption Vulnerability October 21, 2015 CVE Number CVE-2015-7852 Description A potential off by one vulnerability exists in the cookedprint functionality of ntpq. A specially crafted buffer could cause a buffe...

MiniUPnP Internet Gateway Device Protocol XML Parser Buffer Overflow

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2015-0035 MiniUPnP Internet Gateway Device Protocol XML Parser Buffer Overflow September 15, 2015 CVE Number CVE-2015-6031 Description An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A specially crafted...

miniupnpc -- buffer overflow

Talos reports: An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XML parser functionality of the MiniUPnP library. A specially crafted XML response can lead to a buffer overflow on the stack resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can set up a server on the local network to trigg...

August 2015 Apple QuickTime Security Patches

Apple on Thursday pushed out a new version of QuickTime for Windows that patched nine vulnerabilities, including a handful reported Aug. 13 by Cisco Talos and Fortinet researchers. All five flaws, if exploited, could lead to a crash of the media player or code execution in some cases, Apple said ...

Apple Quicktime Invalid mvhd Atom Size Denial of Service Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2015-0014 Apple Quicktime Invalid mvhd Atom Size Denial of Service Vulnerability August 13, 2015 CVE Number CVE-2015-3790 Description There is a denial of service vulnerability in Apple Quicktime. An attacker who can control the size of an mvhd atom can cause an...

Apple Quicktime esds Atom Descriptor Type Length Mismatch Denial of Service Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2015-0015 Apple Quicktime esds Atom Descriptor Type Length Mismatch Denial of Service Vulnerability August 13, 2015 CVE Number CVE-2015-3791 Description There is a denial of service vulnerability in Apple Quicktime. An attacker who can control the elementary video...

Patched Apple QuickTime Vulnerability Details Disclosed

Use-after-free vulnerabilities have nudged buffer overflows off their exclusive perch of serious bugs that hackers covet. They’ve been used in a number of targeted attacks, including some high-profile nation-state attacks, and also were a motivation for Microsoft to implement UAF-specific...

Google Apps 'Defect' Leaks Private WHOIS Data Of 280,000

Google has notified hundreds of thousands of domain registrants that their private WHOIS information has been exposed in the clear, opening them up to identity theft, phishing scams and more. Researchers from Cisco Talos last night said the problem likely lies with one of Google’s registrar...