Mobile Menace Monday: Is Fuchsia OS the end of Android?

It’s no secret that every year Google announces a new Android version. This time though, recent Google documents state that the next major Android version will be Android Q and not Android 9.1 Pie. In parallel, Google is also developing an operating system called Fuchsia that’s supposedly going t...

Microsoft SharePoint Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Microsoft SharePoint Server is an enterprise business collaboration platform from Microsoft. The platform is used to consolidate business information and enable sharing of work, collaborating with others, organizing projects and workgroups, and searching for people and information. An information...

Security update for dom4j (moderate)

This update for dom4j fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-1000632: Prevent XML injection that could have resulted in an attacker tampering with XML documents bsc1105443. This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. This update was imported from the...

New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15982 , is a...

New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15982, is a...

New Flash Player zero-day used against Russian facility

For the past couple of years, Office documents have largely replaced exploit kits as the primary malware delivery vector, giving threat actors the choice between social engineering lures and exploits or a combination of both. While today's malicious spam malspam heavily relies on macros and popul...

Google Chrome PDFium memory misreference vulnerability (CNVD-2018-25308)

Google Chrome is the United States Google Google company developed a Web browser. PDFium is one of the open source PDF rendering engine. A memory misreference vulnerability exists in PDFium in versions of Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.106. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: ghostscript security and bug fix update

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 severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fr...

CVE-2018-4040

An exploitable uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the rich text format parser of Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2. A specially crafted document can cause certain RTF tokens to dereference a pointer that has been uninitialized and then write to it. An attacker must convince a...

CVE-2018-4039

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the PNG implementation of Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2. This can allow an attacker to corrupt memory, which can result in code execution under the context of the application. An attacker must convince a victim to open a...

DNSpionage Campaign Targets Middle East

This blog post was authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Update 2018-11-27 15:30:00 EDT: A Russian-language document has been removed. Subsequent analysis leads us to believe it is unrelated to this investigation. Executive Summary Cisco Talos recently discovered a new campaign targetin...

Atlantis Word Processor open document format parser security vulnerability

Atlantis Word Processor is a suite of word processor software from the Atlantis Word Processor team. open document format parser is one of the open document format parsers. A security vulnerability exists in the open document format parser in Atlantis Word Processor versions 3.2.7.1 and 3.2.7.2. ...

Vba2Graph - Generate Call Graphs From VBA Code, For Easier Analysis Of Malicious Documents

A tool for security researchers, who waste their time analyzing malicious Office macros. Generates a VBA call graph, with potential malicious keywords highlighted. Allows for quick analysis of malicous macros, and easy understanding of the execution flow. @MalwareCantFly Features Keyword...

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...