Business email compromise scam costs Pathé $21.5 million

Recently released court documents show that European-based cinema chain Pathé lost a small fortune to a business email compromise BEC scam in March 2018. How much? An astonishing US$21.5 million roughly 19 million euros. The attack, which ran for about a month, cost the company 10 percent of its...

Threat Roundup for November 2 to November 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 02 and Nov. 09. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

PT-2018-2622 · Apache +1 · Apache Openoffice +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apache Open Office versions 4.1.5 and earlier Description: The issue is related to an arithmetic overflow that occurs when loading a document with a smaller end line termination than the operating system uses. This defect can cause the softwa...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19108

In Exiv2 0.26, Exiv2::PsdImage::readMetadata in psdimage.cpp in the PSD image reader may suffer from a denial of service infinite loop caused by an integer overflow via a crafted PSD image file...

Removing the jam in your printer security

Printers are an important, invisible—albeit sometimes loud—component of the office. But all too often they’re filled with mystery meat icons, peculiar blinking lights, or error messages with no instruction manual to hand. No problem, you can just print at the next station! Wrong. Printers also...

poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Access to all █████████ files, including CAC authentication bypass

Summary: Due to an Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR in adding recipients to a shared package on ██████████, an unauthenticated attacker can access all files uploaded to ████. As described on ██████████ website, this includes documents with classifications up to FOUO, including PII / PHI...

Xpdf Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-17492)

Xpdf is Foo Labs developed an open source PDF reader , it supports decoding LZW compressed format files and read encrypted PDF files . Xpdf 4.00 version of the Stream.cc file in the 'DCTStream::readScan' function has a security vulnerability. Attackers can use the vulnerability to cause a denial ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12363

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when script uses mutation events to move DOM nodes between documents, resulting in the old document that held the node being freed but the node still having a pointer referencing it. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affec...

CVE-2018-12363

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when script uses mutation events to move DOM nodes between documents, resulting in the old document that held the node being freed but the node still having a pointer referencing it. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affec...

GHSA-4C32-XMGJ-2G98 High severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox

Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity XXE attacks via a crafted PDF...

GHSA-35HC-X2CW-2J4V Denial of service vulnerability exists when .NET and .NET Core improperly process XML documents

A denial of service vulnerability exists when .NET and .NET Core improperly process XML documents, aka ".NET and .NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1, Microsoft .NET Framework...

ghostscript security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:2918 An update for ghostscript is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

Innovative Phishing Tactic Makes Inroads Using Azure Blob

A fresh tactic for phishing Office 365 users employs credential-harvesting forms hosted on Azure Blob storage – signed with legitimate Microsoft SSL certificates to lend an air of legitimacy. Azure Blob Storage is a cloud storage solution for hosting unstructured data such as images, video or tex...

CVE-2018-8512

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Edge when the Edge Content Security Policy CSP fails to properly validate certain specially crafted documents, aka "Microsoft Edge Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Edge. This CVE ID is unique from...

Foxit PDF Reader JavaScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-20709)

Foxit PDF Reader is China's Foxit Foxit Software Corporation of a PDF document reader. JavaScript engine is one of the JavaScript scripting engine. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the JavaScript engine in Foxit PDF Reader. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execut...

Foxit PDF Reader JavaScript Engine Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Foxit PDF Reader is China's Foxit Foxit Software Corporation of a PDF document reader. JavaScript engine is one of the JavaScript scripting engine. Foxit PDF Reader 9.2.0.9297 and previous versions of the JavaScript engine in the arbitrary code execution vulnerability, a remote attacker can be us...

Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF JavaScript Engine Memory Misreference Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-20718)

Foxit Reader is China Foxit Foxit software company a PDF document reader.Foxit PhantomPDF is a commercial version.JavaScript engine is one of the JavaScript scripting engine. A memory misreference vulnerability exists in the JavaScript engine in Foxit Reader 9.2.0.9297 and earlier versions and...

Foxit PDF Reader JavaScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-20716)

Foxit PDF Reader is China's Foxit Foxit Software Corporation of a PDF document reader. JavaScript engine is one of the JavaScript scripting engine. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the JavaScript engine in Foxit PDF Reader. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execut...

Microsoft Publisher: Disable UI Extending from Documents and Templates

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: officenouiextendingpublisher.nasl 12129 2018-10-26 13:57:15Z cfischer $ Check value for Disable UI extending from documents and templates Publisher Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...