Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 23, 2018

We’re at the end of July and the Zero Day Initiative ZDI has published 873 advisories so far. That’s 273 advisories this month alone – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Earlier this week, ZDI announced the Targeted Incentive Program, which brings over $1,500,000 USD in special bounty awards...

VMSA-2018-0018 : VMware Horizon View Agent, VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates resolve multiple security issues

a. VMware Horizon View Agent local information disclosure vulnerability VMware Horizon View Agents contain a local information disclosure vulnerability due to insecure logging of credentials in the vmmsi.log file when an account other than the currently logged on user is specified during...

Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M

Hackers used phishing emails to break into a Virginia bank in two separate cyber intrusions over an eight-month period, making off with more than $2.4 million total. Now the financial institution is suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. According to a lawsuit filed...

freetype2/ftfuzzer: Heap-buffer-overflow in pcf_get_encodings

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6409167655927808 Project: freetype2 Fuzzer: libFuzzerfreetype2ftfuzzer Fuzz target binary: ftfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanfreetype2 Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash Address: 0x60500000340f Crash State:...

ffmpeg/ffmpeg_AV_CODEC_ID_CFHD_fuzzer: Heap-buffer-overflow in peak_table

Project: https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5283250636324864 Project: ffmpeg Fuzzer: libFuzzerffmpegAVCODECIDCFHDfuzzer Fuzz target binary: ffmpegAVCODECIDCFHDfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanffmpeg Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 16, 2018

One night this week, I came across one of my favorite movies Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The world had gone crazy after the reclusive Willy Wonka announces that he has hidden five golden tickets in chocolate Wonka Bars that promised a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate...

D-Link Wi-Fi Day Camera Detection via mDNS

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Recent Andariel Group ActiveX Attacks Point to Future Targets

Researchers say that the North Korea-linked Andariel hacking group may be looking to switch up its targets, based on key changes in its script found on recently compromised websites. The Andariel group is associated with the infamous Lazarus Group, North Korea’s cyber-espionage unit. Andariel has...

A primer: How to stay safe on Amazon Prime Day

Bank card—check! Shopping list—check! Lumbar back support pillow—check! Noise canceling headphones—check! And, of course, coffee—check! If you’re an Amazon shopper, then you know by now that Prime Day is nigh! And if you’re one of the many who dreads bidding the weekend goodbye, this is probably...

poppler/pdf_fuzzer: Use-of-uninitialized-value in SampledFunction::transform

Project: https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=4888468869087232 Project: poppler Fuzzer: libFuzzerpopplerpdffuzzer Fuzz target binary: pdffuzzer Job Type: libfuzzermsanpoppler Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 9, 2018

Earlier this week, I wrote a blog covering a couple of the statistics from the Zero Day Initiative’s ZDI first half of 2018. One of the stats that I didn’t cover is the increasing focus on enterprise applications. The team is seeing consistent growth in submissions of Microsoft and Apple...

APT Trends Report Q2 2018

In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports, in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the latest installment,...

WordPress Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability Plugged With Patch 4.9.7

On Jun 26 an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in the WordPress core was publicly disclosed, the vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to delete any file and in some cases execute arbitrary code. WordPress is a free, popular, and open-source content management system currently...

ThreatList: Virtualization-related Bug Reports Jump 275 Percent in 2018

Zero Day Initiative said Monday that so far in 2018, it has published 600 advisories – up 33 percent from the 451 published in 2017, which was previously its “busiest year ever.” “Interestingly, we had fewer advisories released as 0-day this year,” the company said in its mid-year report on...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 2, 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has been up and running for a couple of months now and your organization is compliant. It’s time to take a little break – well, not so fast! Late last week, the State of California passed a new data privacy law called the California Consumer Privacy Act...

qcms/fuzz: Crash in lut_inverse_interp16

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5643064793104384 Project: qcms Fuzzer: libFuzzerqcmsfuzz Fuzz target binary: fuzz Job Type: libfuzzermsanqcms Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address: 0x730fffff16d0 Crash State: lutinverseinterp16 invertlut computeprecache...

Major Vulnerabilities in Foscam Cameras

For the past several months, VDOO’s security research teams have been undertaking broad-scale security research of leading IoT products, from the fields of safety and security. In most cases, the research was carried out together with the device vendors for the sake of efficiency and transparency...

Delving deep into VBScript

In late April we found and wrote a description of CVE-2018-8174, a new zero-day vulnerability for Internet Explorer that was picked up by our sandbox. The vulnerability uses a well-known technique from the proof-of-concept exploit CVE-2014-6332 that essentially "corrupts" two memory objects and...

imagemagick/encoder_heic_fuzzer: Use-of-uninitialized-value in heif::HeifContext::decode_overlay_image

Project: https://github.com/imagemagick/imagemagick.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5171925214035968 Project: imagemagick Fuzzer: libFuzzerimagemagickencoderheicfuzzer Fuzz target binary: encoderheicfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzermsanimagemagick Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

New macro-less technique to distribute malware

One of the most common and effective infection vectors, especially for businesses, is the use of malicious Office documents. This year alone, we witnessed two zero-days for both Flash and the VBScript engine, which were first actually embedded into Office documents before gaining wider adoption i...