Over 20 Million Users Installed Malicious Ad Blockers From Chrome Store

If you have installed any of the below-mentioned Ad blocker extension in your Chrome browser, you could have been hacked. A security researcher has spotted five malicious ad blockers extension in the Google Chrome Store that had already been installed by at least 20 million users. Unfortunately,...

OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in TabularDataSupport (JMX, 8189985)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: JMX. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u181, 7u171, 8u162 and 10; Java SE Embedded: 8u161; JRockit: R28.3.17. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-2797

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: JMX. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u181, 7u171, 8u162 and 10; Java SE Embedded: 8u161; JRockit: R28.3.17. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with...

Google Chrome Extensions Security Bypass Vulnerability

Google Chrome for Mac, Windows and Linux is a web browser developed by Google for the Mac, Windows and Linux platforms.Extensions is one of the browser extensions. A security vulnerability exists in Extensions in versions prior to Google Chrome 65.0.3325.146. A remote attacker can exploit this...

A week in security (April 02 – April 08)

Last week, we took a look at fake Whatsapp antics, dubious gaming extensions, and a huge Panera bread breach. There was also LockCrypt ransomware to contend with, we had a poke around Linkedin, and we published another Physician, protect thyself blog. Other news Compromised cash register systems...

Description of the security update for the speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2008: March 13, 2018

Description of the security update for the speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in Windows Server 2008: March 13, 2018 Summary Microsoft is aware of a new publicly disclosed class of vulnerabilities referred to as "speculative execution side-channel attacks" that affect many modern...

Design/Logic Flaw

AESM daemon in Intel Software Guard Extensions Platform Software Component for Linux before 2.1.102 can effectively be disabled by a local attacker creating a denial of services like remote attestation provided by the AESM...

CVE-2018-3689

The CVE affects the AESM daemon in the Intel SGX Platform Software Component for Linux prior to version 2.1.102. A local attacker can disable AESM, causing a denial of service to remote attestation. The NVD CVSSv3.1 vector indicates LOCAL access, low attack complexity, privileges required: LOW, w...

CVE-2017-13827

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13 is affected. The issue involves the "kext tools" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app that performs kext loading...

Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Extensions From Chrome Web Store

In an effort to prevent cryptojacking by extensions that maliciously mine digital currencies without users' awareness, Google has implemented a new Web Store policy that bans any Chrome extension submitted to the Web Store that mines cryptocurrency. Over the past few months, we have seen a sudden...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities (USN-3613-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3613-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the cryptography implementation in OpenJDK. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive...

USN-3613-1: OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the cryptography implementation in OpenJDK. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2018-2579 It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly validate uses of the invokeinterface JVM...

CVE-2018-6660

Directory Traversal vulnerability in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator ePO 5.3.2, 5.3.1, 5.3.0 and 5.9.0 allows administrators to use Windows alternate data streams, which could be used to bypass the file extensions, via not properly validating the path when exporting a particular XML file...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: kst-2.0.8-20.fc28

Kst is a real-time data viewing and plotting tool with basic data analysis functionality. Kst contains many powerful built-in features and is expandable with plugins and extensions. Main features of kst include: Robust plotting of live "streaming" data. Powerful keyboard and mouse plot...

Rapicode, Multiple Extensions, Back Door

Rapicode, nultiple extensions, current versions, back door Extensions affected are:- Rapi Content Ticker Rapi Content Carousel Rapi Cookie Consent Rapi Countdown Rapi Preloader Rapi Loading Progress Bar Rapi Page Animate At the moment the back door seems to be loading mining code, it can be used ...

Intel Software Guard Extension Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Intel Software Guard Extensions Platform Software Component is a set of software components for the Software Guard Extensions Platform from Intel Corporation. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Intel Software Guard Extensions. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability ...

CVE-2017-5736

An elevation of privilege in Intel Software Guard Extensions Platform Software Component before 1.9.105.42329 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as administrator...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege in Intel Software Guard Extensions Platform Software Component before 1.9.105.42329 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as administrator...

CVE-2017-5736

An elevation of privilege in Intel Software Guard Extensions Platform Software Component before 1.9.105.42329 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as administrator...

CVE-2017-5736

CVE-2017-5736 describes a local elevation of privilege in the Intel® Software Guard Extensions Platform Software Component, vulnerable before version 1.9.105.42329. A local attacker could escalate to administrator and run arbitrary code. The accepted remediation in the sources is to update to ver...