Turn On Auto-Updates Everywhere You Can

Meltdowns like the Chrome zero day bug show why enabling auto-updates can be the wisest choice for many consumers...

Google Chrome zero-day: Now is the time to update and restart your browser

Update 2019-03-21 A proof of concept for CVE-2019-5786 was published by Exodus Intel. In our earlier post we exercised caution before claiming we would have blocked this zero-day, but we can now say with confidence that an older version of Malwarebytes 1.12.1.122 would have mitigated this attack:...

New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Found Actively Exploited in the Wild

You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application. Security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group discovered and reported a high severity vulnerability in Chrome late last month that could allow remote attackers to execute...

New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Found Actively Exploited in the Wild

You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application. Security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group discovered and reported a high severity vulnerability in Chrome late last month that could allow remote attackers to execute...

Get, Set, Election, Go: Preparing For The 2019 Elections

Meeting the Expectations of Millions as They Go Online on The Election Day The 2019 General Elections could possibly be the most important Election event ever, in India... As India advances towards the general elections, this year, it will be the world's largest democratic exercise, and the bigge...

RSAC 2019: Microsoft Zero-Day Allows Exploits to Sneak Past Sandboxes

SAN FRANCISCO – A previously unknown bug in Microsoft Office has been spotted being actively exploited in the wild; it can be used to bypass security solutions and sandboxes, according to findings released at the RSA Conference 2019. The bug exists in the OLE file format and the way it’s handled ...

Google Reveals "BuggyCow," a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google's Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory...

A Look Back at the 2018 Security Landscape

Do you ever question the value of the mounds of data we all collect? We make a point to stop, analyze and share, especially because we know you might not have the time. So, I bring you our annual look back at the more interesting security events and trends seen last year. The report, Caught in th...

Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion Vulnerability With Active Exploit

Adobe has issued an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in its ColdFusion service that is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2019-7816, exists in Adobe’s commercial rapid web application development platform, ColdFusion. The ColdFusion vulnerability is a file upload...

openh264/decoder_fuzzer: Heap-use-after-free in WelsDec::ResetRefPicReferences

Project: https://github.com/cisco/openh264.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5702682327646208 Project: openh264 Fuzzer: aflopenh264decoderfuzzer Fuzz target binary: decoderfuzzer Job Type: aflasanopenh264 Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-use-after-free READ 8 Crash Address...

openthread/ip6-send-fuzzer: Crash in ot::Coap::CoapBase::RemoveResource

Project: https://github.com/openthread/openthread.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5754140431482880 Project: openthread Fuzzer: libFuzzeropenthreadip6-send-fuzzer Fuzz target binary: ip6-send-fuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsanopenthread Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN RE...

opencv/imdecode_fuzzer: Crash in jp2_box_get

Project: https://github.com/opencv/opencv.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5665823442599936 Project: opencv Fuzzer: libFuzzeropencvimdecodefuzzer Fuzz target binary: imdecodefuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsanopencv Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address:...

Quest NetVault Backup Server Code Execution / SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Quest NetVault Backup Server 11.4.5 Process Manager Service SQL Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ZDI-17-982 Date: 2-21-2019 Exploit Author: credit goes to rgod for finding the bug Version: Quest NetVault Backup Server 11.4.5 CVE : CVE-2017-17417 There is a decent...

Adobe Re-Patches Critical Acrobat Reader Flaw

A week after Adobe fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Acrobat Reader, the company issued another patch after a researcher dug up a way to bypass the original fix. This previous vulnerability CVE-2019-7089 was fixed in Adobe’s regularly scheduled security update last week. But Adobe sa...

imagemagick/encoder_dng_fuzzer: Global-buffer-overflow in LibRaw::parse_makernote

Project: https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5733147803648000 Project: imagemagick Fuzzer: aflimagemagickencoderdngfuzzer Fuzz target binary: encoderdngfuzzer Job Type: aflasanimagemagick Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

kimageformats/kimgio_fuzzer: Crash in BLEND_SOURCE_OVER_ARGB32_WITH_CONST_ALPHA_AVX2

Project: git://anongit.kde.org/kimageformats Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5765015108321280 Project: kimageformats Fuzzer: aflkimageformatskimgiofuzzer Fuzz target binary: kimgiofuzzer Job Type: aflasankimageformats Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address:...

Tips on How to Fight Back Against DNS Spoofing Attacks

The Domain Name System DNS, known as the phone book for the internet, was recently retuned to improve performance as well as include new security provisions to protect against Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. DNS Flag Day drew a line in the sand for noncompliant authoritative DNS serve...

Patch Tuesday, February 2019 Edition

Microsoft on Tuesday issued a bevy of patches to correct at least 70 distinct security vulnerabilities in Windows and software designed to interact with various flavors of the operating system. This month's patch batch tackles some notable threats to enterprises -- including multiple flaws that...

Heap overflow

Several heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior have been identified, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...

CVE-2019-6541

A memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...