Cisco Releases Security Advisory for IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol

Cisco has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the Cisco IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol feature. Exploitation of this vulnerability may result in the continuous resetting of BGP peering sessions, which may cause a denial-of-service condition for affected networks...

Apple Releases Security Update 2010-005

Apple has released security update 2010-005 to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the ATS, CFNetwork, ClamAV, CoreGraphics, libsecurity, PHP, and Samba applications. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, cause a...

Adobe Releases Security Bulletin for Shockwave Player

Adobe has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Adobe security bulletin APSB10-20 and...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory

Microsoft has released a security advisory indicating that it is aware of a remote attack vector for a class of vulnerabilities related to how applications load external dynamic link libraries DLLs. If an application does not securely load DLL files, an attacker may be able to cause the applicati...

Ecava IntegraXor Buffer Overflow

Overview The ICS-CERT has received a report from independent security researcher Jeremy Brown that reveals a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Ecava IntegraXor Human-Machine Interface HMI product that could allow the execution of arbitrary code. Ecava has verified the claim and has...

Automated Solutions OPC Vulnerability

Overview The ICS-CERT has received a report from independent security researcher Jeremy Brown that reveals a heap corruption vulnerability in the Automated Solutions Modbus/TCP Master OPC server. Automated Solutions has confirmed that their most recent patch mitigates the vulnerability for Versio...

VideoLAN Releases a Security Advisory for VLC Media Player

VideoLAN has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in VLC Media Player. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. The updated release also addresses additional issues that could result in a denial-of-service attack...

Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.127

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.127 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or conduct spoofing attacks. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review th...

Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6.7

Apple has released QuickTime 7.6.7 for Windows to address a vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to a stack buffer overflow that exists in QuickTime error logging. By convincing a user to open a specially crafted movie file, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause a...

Adobe Releases Security Update for Flash Player

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1.82.76 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. This vulnerability also affects Adobe Air 2.0.2.12310 and earlier versions. US-CERT encourages users and...

Apple Releases Updates for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Apple has released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch and iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad to address vulnerabilities in the FreeType and IOSurface packages. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or gain system privileges. iPhone and iPod touch users are...

Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.126

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.126 for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Chrome 5.0.375.126 contains an updated version of the Flash plugin which addresses multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and...

Microsoft Releases August Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and Silverlight as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or operate with elevated privileges...

US CERT Warns on VxWorks Flaws

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued two warnings on flaws in the embedded systems’ OS technology VxWorks as discovered by researcher HD Moore. One flaw deals with weakness in the hashing algorithm of the API authentication; The second regards debug settings being enabled by...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for August Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its August release will contain 14 bulletins. Eight bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and Silverlight. The remaining six bulletins will hav...

[R7-0035] VxWorks Authentication Library Weak Password Hashing

R7-0035: VxWorks Authentication Library Weak Password Hashing August 2, 2010 -- Vulnerability Details: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass the authentication process for the Telnet and FTP services of the VxWorks operating system. This flaw occurs due to an insecure password...

VxWorks WDB Agent Remote Memory Dump

This module provides the ability to dump the system memory of a VxWorks target through WDBRPC This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VxWorks WDB Agent Remote Memory Dump', 'Description...

Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Bulletin to Address Shortcut Vulnerability

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS10-046 to address a critical vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows. This vulnerability is due to the failure of Microsoft Windows to properly obtain icons for shortcut files. By convincing a user to display a specially crafted shortcut file, a remote...

Wind River Systems VxWorks weak default hashing algorithm in standard authentication API (loginLib)

Overview The hashing algorithm that is used in the standard authentication API for VxWorks is susceptible to collisions. An attacker can brute force a password by guessing a string that produces the same hash as a legitimate password. Description An attacker with a known username and access to a...

Apple Releases Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1

Apple has released Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1 for Windows and Mac OS X to address multiple vulnerabilities in Safari and WebKit. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or obtain sensitive information. US-CERT encourages users...