Microsoft Edge Chakra Uninitialized Arguments Exploit

Microsoft Edge Chakra suffers from an uninitialized arguments vulnerability. Microsoft Edge: Chakra: Uninitialized arguments CVE-2017-8640 Here's a snippet of "ParseVariableDeclaration" which is used for parsing declarations. template ParseNodePtr Parser::ParseVariableDeclaration tokens...

Threat Intelligence for WAF

It’s all about security rules Stephen Hawking said, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”. One could say much the same of web application firewalls and WAF security rules. With web applications now one of the most attacked components of IT infrastructures, organizations have a critical...

Microsoft Edge Charka Failed Re-Parse

Microsoft Edge: Chakra: InterpreterStackFrame::ProcessLinkFailedAsmJsModule incorrectly re-parses CVE-2017-8645 When Chakra fails to link an asmjs module, it tries to re-parse the failed-to-link asmjs function to treat it as a normal javascript function. But it incorrectly handles the case where...

Advantech WebOP

CVSS v3 4.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit. Public exploits are available. Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebOP Vulnerability: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow AFFECTED PRODUCTS Researchers report that all versions of Advantech WebOP operator panels are affected. IMPACT Successful exploitation of...

ffmpeg: Index-out-of-bounds in decode_header

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6421736130084864 Project: ffmpeg Fuzzer: libFuzzerffmpegAVCODECIDSNOWfuzzer Fuzz target binary: ffmpegAVCODECIDSNOWfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsanffmpeguntrusted Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Index-out-of-bounds Crash Address: Crash State:...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 7, 2017

Earlier this month, a blog post from Blue Frost Security was released stating that they were giving away tickets to the upcoming Ekoparty Security Conference in Argentina. But there was a catch: in order to get the tickets and free whiskey, entrants had to complete an exploitation challenge and...

Fuji Electric Monitouch V-SFT

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Fuji Electric Equipment: Monitouch V-SFT Vulnerabilities: Stack-Based Buffer Overflow, Heap-Based Buffer Overflow, Improper Privilege Management AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of Monitouch V-SFT, a screen...

More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process

Richard Ledgett -- a former Deputy Director of the NSA -- argues against the US government disclosing all vulnerabilities: Proponents argue that this would allow patches to be developed, which in turn would help ensure that networks are secure. On its face, this argument might seem to make sense ...

Microsoft Patches Critical Windows Search Vulnerability

Microsoft patched more than two dozen remote code execution vulnerabilities today, many of them rated critical. One was a RCE bug that allowed an attacker to take complete control of a server or workstation via Windows Search. The fixes were part of Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday update that...

APT Trends report Q2 2017

Introduction Since 2014, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT has been providing threat intelligence reports to a wide-range of customers worldwide, leading to the delivery of a full and dedicated private reporting service. Prior to the new service offering, GReAT published...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 31, 2017

During the DefCon Conference last week, a Windows SMB vulnerability was revealed by researchers from RiskSense. The 20-year-old bug can be found in Windows 2000 up to Windows 10. Microsoft has indicated that it will not be issuing a patch for the vulnerability as it doesn't meet their bar for...

Will The Real Security Community Please Stand Up

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Black Hat 2017 was a vocabulary lesson for white-hats, and yes, words matter. Words such as nihilism, empathy and inclusion have to matter, because what you’re doing n...

NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information

Back in 2013, Der Spiegel reported that the NSA intercepts and collects Windows bug reports: One example of the sheer creativity with which the TAO spies approach their work can be seen in a hacking method they use that exploits the error-proneness of Microsoft's Windows. Every user of the...

Cisco DPC3939 Comcast Firmware Information Disclosure Vulnerability

The Cisco DPC3939 XB3 is a wireless home voice gateway product from Cisco USA.Comcast is a set of firmware developed by Comcast that runs in devices such as gateways and modems. A security vulnerability exists in the Comcast firmware in the Cisco DPC3939 using the...

Default credentials

The Comcast firmware on Cisco DPC3939 firmware version dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST devices allows remote attackers to compute password-of-the-day values via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2017-9486

The Comcast firmware on Cisco DPC3939 firmware version dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST devices allows remote attackers to compute password-of-the-day values via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2017-9486

The Comcast firmware on Cisco DPC3939 firmware version dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST devices allows remote attackers to compute password-of-the-day values via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2017-9486

The Comcast firmware on Cisco DPC3939 firmware version dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST devices allows remote attackers to compute password-of-the-day values via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2017-9486

CVE-2017-9486 affects Cisco DPC3939 devices running the Comcast firmware dpc3939-P20-18-v303r20421746-170221a-CMCST. The published records consistently describe the issue as a vulnerability in the Comcast firmware that allows remote attackers to compute the password-of-the-day (POTD) values via u...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 24, 2017

This week, I attended the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. 2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the Black Hat conference. A lot has certainly changed since I started attending back in 2002. I’m sure that many will have their opinions on the central themes that they saw at the conference...