Talos Vulnerability Discovery Year in Review — 2019

By Martin Zeiser. Cisco Talos' Systems Security Research Team investigates software, operating system, IoT and ICS vulnerabilities to make sure we find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. We provide this information to the affected vendors so that they can create patches and protect their...

CVE-2019-1477

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Printer Service improperly validates file paths while loading printer drivers, aka 'Windows Printer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'...

CVE-2019-19532

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s HID drivers. An attacker, able to plug in a malicious USB device, can crash the system or read and write to memory with an incorrect address. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options...

dovecot -- null pointer deref in notify with empty headers

Aki Tuomi reports Mail with group address as sender will cause a signal 11 crash in push notification drivers. Group address as recipient can cause crash in some drivers...

The vulnerability of the Kernel Mode Driver component in Intel Graphics Drivers relates to insecure privilege management, allowing attackers to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Kernel Mode Driver component in Intel Graphics Drivers is related to insecure management of privileges. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges...

OpenBSD has an unspecified vulnerability (CNVD-2019-44735)

OpenBSD is a cross-platform, BSD-based UNIX-like operating system from the Canadian OpenBSD project team. A security vulnerability exists in xlock in OpenBSD version 6.6, which stems from the xenocara/lib/mesa/src/loader/loader.c file not handling dlopen correctly.A local attacker can exploit thi...

Iran Targets Mideast Oil with ZeroCleare Wiper Malware

A freshly-discovered wiper malware dubbed “ZeroCleare” has been deployed to target the energy and industrial sectors in the Middle East. According to IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services IRIS, ZeroCleare so-named because of the program database pathname of its binary file was...

CVE-2019-19543

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.6, there is a use-after-free in serialirinitmodule in drivers/media/rc/serialir.c...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19543

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.6, there is a use-after-free in serialirinitmodule in drivers/media/rc/serialir.c...

CVE-2019-19543

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.6, there is a use-after-free in serialirinitmodule in drivers/media/rc/serialir.c...

Unexpected Page Fault in Virtualized Environment Advisory - Lenovo Support US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-29863 Potential Impact: Escalation of Privilege, Denial of Service, Information Disclosure Scope of Impact: Industry-wide Severity: Medium CVE Identifier: CVE-2019-14607 Summary Description: Intel reported a potential security vulnerability in multiple Intel processo...

CVE-2019-19543

In the Linux kernel before 5.1.6, there is a use-after-free in serialirinitmodule in drivers/media/rc/serialir.c...

CVE-2019-19529

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.11, there is a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/mcbausb.c driver, aka CID-4d6636498c41...

CVE-2019-19532

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, there are multiple out-of-bounds write bugs that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the Linux kernel HID drivers, aka CID-d9d4b1e46d95. This affects drivers/hid/hid-axff.c, drivers/hid/hid-dr.c, drivers/hid/hid-emsff.c, drivers/hid/hid-gaff.c,...

CVE-2019-19533

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.4, there is an info-leak bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/ttusb-dec/ttusbdec.c driver, aka CID-a10feaf8c464...

CVE-2019-19525

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.6, there is a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c driver, aka CID-7fd25e6fc035...

CVE-2019-19524

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.12, there is a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/input/ff-memless.c driver, aka CID-fa3a5a1880c9...

CVE-2019-19525

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.6, there is a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c driver, aka CID-7fd25e6fc035...

Memory corruption

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.11, there is a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/mcbausb.c driver, aka CID-4d6636498c41...

Out-of-bounds

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, there are multiple out-of-bounds write bugs that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the Linux kernel HID drivers, aka CID-d9d4b1e46d95. This affects drivers/hid/hid-axff.c, drivers/hid/hid-dr.c, drivers/hid/hid-emsff.c, drivers/hid/hid-gaff.c,...