This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

The Stable channel has been updated to 59.0.3071.91, 59.0.3071.92 Platform version: 9460.60.0, 9460.60.2 for all Chrome OS devices except the Google Chromebook Pixel 2015. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates, and feature enhancements. Systems will be receiving updates over...

Open Source Incident Management & Response Platform: Cyphon

Open Source Incident Management & Response Platform Cyphon is a big data platform that aggregates, standardizes, and enhances data for easier analysis. Many businesses rely on emails to manage alert notifications, which leaves their networks susceptible to overlooked incidents, alert fatigue and...

Microsoft MsMpEng - Multiple Problems Handling ntdll!NtControlChannel Commands

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1260 MsMpEng includes a full system x86 emulator that is used to execute any untrusted files that look like PE executables. The emulator runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and isn't sandboxed. Browsing the list of win32 APIs that the...

CVE-2017-0593

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to obtain access to custom permissions. This issue is rated as High because it is a general bypass for operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications...

CVE-2017-0598

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to bypass operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain access to data that the application...

CVE-2017-0598

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to bypass operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain access to data that the application...

CVE-2017-0593

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to obtain access to custom permissions. This issue is rated as High because it is a general bypass for operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to obtain access to custom permissions. This issue is rated as High because it is a general bypass for operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications...

CVE-2017-0598

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to bypass operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain access to data that the application...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0593

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to obtain access to custom permissions. This issue is rated as High because it is a general bypass for operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications...

Information disclosure

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to bypass operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain access to data that the application...

CVE-2017-0593

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to obtain access to custom permissions. This issue is rated as High because it is a general bypass for operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications...

CVE-2017-0598

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to bypass operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain access to data that the application...

CVE-2017-0593

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to obtain access to custom permissions. This issue is rated as High because it is a general bypass for operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications...

CVE-2017-0598

CVE-2017-0598 is an information-disclosure vulnerability in Android’s Framework APIs. The flaw could allow a local malicious application to bypass OS data isolation protections and access data from other apps. Affected products/versions, per authoritative sources, include Android 4.4.4 through 7....

Microsoft's New Security Update Guides Get Mixed Reviews

Microsoft is receiving mixed reviews for its shift to delivering security update information via its newly launched Security Update Guides. The change was official in April, with Microsoft explaining it would allow system administrators to effectively pair specific patches with vulnerabilities, a...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Enhanced Protected Mode Sandbox Escape Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to escape the Enhanced Protected Mode EPM sandbox on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specif...

Google Android Framework APIs Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-08229)

Google Android is a Linux-based operating system for smartphone devices. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Google Android Framework APIs, which can be exploited by remote attackers to build malicious applications, bypass security protections, and obtain sensitive information...

Google Android Framework APIs elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2017-08230)

Google Android is a Linux-based operating system for smartphone devices. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Google Android Framework APIs, which can be exploited by remote attackers to build malicious applications, execute arbitrary code, and elevate privileges...