TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 2, 2017

Have you ever read something online and you read a word as something else? Sometimes the weight of our eyelids makes our eyes deceive us after hours staring at a computer screen. As I stated to read a Zero Day Initiative blog published this week by Simon Zuckerbraun, instead of reading the word...

CVE-2017-0234

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Edge in the way that the Chakra JavaScript engine renders when handling objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-0224, CVE-2017-0228, CVE-2017-0229, CVE-2017-0230,...

CVE-2017-0234

CVE-2017-0234 corresponds to a remote code execution in the Chakra JavaScript engine used by Microsoft Edge, triggered by memory handling when rendering objects. Connected advisories confirm a ChakraCore/Edge scripting-engine memory corruption issue; exploitation would arise from the engine’s han...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4019472)

This host is missing a critical/important security update according to Microsoft KB4019472. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

Microsoft Edge Scripting Engine Memory Corruption (CVE-2017-0234)

A Memory Corruption Vulnerability exists in Microsoft Edge. The vulnerability is due to the way JavaScript engine renders when handling objects in memory. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a specially crafted web page...