Patch Tuesday, January 2019 Edition

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to fix roughly four dozen security issues with its Windows operating systems and related software. All things considered, this first Patch Tuesday of 2019 is fairly mild, bereft as it is of any new Adobe Flash updates or zero-day exploits. But there are a few...

Zerodium is paying $2 million for Apple iOS remote jailbreak

By Waqas Zerodium, an infosec and premium zero-day acquisition platform known for selling zero-day exploits to governments has announced that it will be paying a huge amount of money to buy iOS remote jailbreak and exploits related to WhatsApp, iMessage, or SMS/MMS. See: Zerodium uses Twitter to...

Zerodium Offers to Buy Zero-Day Exploits at Higher Prices Than Ever

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers! Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage and other online ch...

Zerodium Offers to Buy Zero-Day Exploits at Higher Prices Than Ever

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers! Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage and other online ch...

Schneider Electric IIoT Monitor (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: IIoT Monitor --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 2 -------- Vulnerabilities: Path Traversal, Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, XXE, Cryptographic Issues...

Zerodium Raises Zero-Day Payout Ceiling to $2M

Exploit acquisition vendor Zerodium said Monday that it is upping its payouts for full, working exploits across its entire program. It’s now paying $2 million for remote iOS jailbreaks, $1 million for WhatsApp/iMessage/SMS/MMS remote code-execution RCE and a half-million for Google Chrome RCEs. T...

Adobe Fixes Two Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws

Adobe on Thursday released unscheduled security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and MacOS. The updates fix two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2018-16011 and CVE-2018-19725. Successful exploitation of the flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current...

Adobe Issues Emergency Patches for Two Critical Flaws in Acrobat and Reader

I hope you had biggest, happiest and craziest New Year celebration, but now it's time to come back at work and immediately update your systems to patch new security flaws that could exploit your computer just by opening a PDF file. Adobe has issued an out-of-band security update to patch two...

The RPC vulnerability mining case studies, on-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

2018 8 the end of the month, a self-proclaimed“sandbox escape”SandboxEscaperof female researchers released a Windows local privilege escalation 0 day vulnerability. In addition, also attach a proof of concept attack that allows hackers to read the system in unauthorized areas, but at the moment...

harfbuzz/hb-subset-fuzzer: Heap-double-free in hb_vector_t<CFF::op_str_t, 8u>::fini

Project: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5695865298092032 Project: harfbuzz Fuzzer: libFuzzerhb-subset-fuzzer Fuzz target binary: hb-subset-fuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanharfbuzz Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-double-free Crash...

Hacker Discloses New Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper today released proof-of-concept PoC exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft's Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is the same researcher who previously publicly dropped exploits for two Windows zero-day...

Hacker Discloses New Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper today released proof-of-concept PoC exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft's Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is the same researcher who previously publicly dropped exploits for two Windows zero-day...

Microsoft IE Zero Day Gets Emergency Patch

Microsoft patched a zero-day vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser that is actively being exploited by attackers. The bug, reported by Google, is a remote code execution vulnerability that allowed attackers to infiltrate vulnerable systems via a booby trapped website that could have...

Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Under-Attack IE Zero Day

Microsoft today issued an out-of-band security update to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer IE Web browser that attackers are already exploiting in the wild to hack into Windows computers. Discovered by security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Grou...

Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Under-Attack IE Zero Day

Microsoft today issued an out-of-band security update to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer IE Web browser that attackers are already exploiting in the wild to hack into Windows computers. Discovered by security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Grou...

yara/dotnet_fuzzer: Heap-buffer-overflow in dotnet_parse_us

Project: https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5725060321509376 Project: yara Fuzzer: libFuzzeryaradotnetfuzzer Fuzz target binary: dotnetfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanyara Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash Address...

The Market of Billions -- Are You Prepared For The Peaks?

Yes, we truly are the market of billions! I love Graham D. Brown's distinctive representation of this massive business opportunity in South Asia in his Asia Matters report. In 2018, over 50% of the world's total online retail sales happened in the Asia-Pacific region. eMarketer reports that onlin...

skia/animated_image_decode: Heap-buffer-overflow in swizzle_index_to_n32

Project: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5695054438465536 Project: skia Fuzzer: libFuzzerskiaanimatedimagedecode Fuzz target binary: animatedimagedecode Job Type: libfuzzerasanskia Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1...

Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack

Microsoft today, on its year-end December Patch Tuesday, released security updates to patch a total 39 vulnerabilities its Windows operating systems and applications—10 of which are rated as critical and other important in severity. One of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant th...

Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack

Microsoft today, on its year-end December Patch Tuesday, released security updates to patch a total 39 vulnerabilities its Windows operating systems and applications—10 of which are rated as critical and other important in severity. One of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant th...