TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of February 5, 2018

It was a busy week in the cyber security world, but it shouldn’t be surprising given that the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang have begun. I shouldn’t blame just the Olympics, but it’s hard not to given the international focus, controversy around the ban of certain athletes and its proximity t...

Intel Makes Spectre Patch Progress, while Adobe Grapples with Latest Flash Bug

It’s been a busy week in InfoSec land, as Intel released a new Spectre patch, iOS source code was leaked online, and a zero-day Flash bug got exploited in the wild. Also making noise these past few days: A major security hole in the Grammarly web app, WordPress updates tripping over each other, a...

Exploit for Use After Free in Adobe Flash_Player

CVE-2018-4878 POC CVE-2018-4878 was first demonstrated being...

Input validation

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite system files that are stored in the flash memory of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

CVE-2018-0122

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite system files that are stored in the flash memory of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

CVE-2018-0122

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite system files that are stored in the flash memory of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

CVE-2018-0122

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite system files that are stored in the flash memory of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

CVE-2018-0122

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite system files that are stored in the flash memory of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

Cisco StarOS File Overwrite Vulnerability

Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers is a 5000 Series security router appliance from Cisco USA. the Cisco StarOS operating system is a set of virtualized operating systems that run on them. A file overwrite vulnerability exists in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system in the...

RHEL 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2018:0285)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0285 advisory. The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in. This update upgrades Flash Player to...

flash-plugin: use-after-free causing remote code execution (APSB18-03)

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28.0.0.161. This vulnerability occurs due to a dangling pointer in the Primetime SDK related to media player handling of listener objects. A successful attack can lead to arbitrary code execution. This was exploited in the...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: flash-plugin security update

An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

flash-plugin: use-after-free causing remote code execution (APSB18-03)

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28.0.0.161. This vulnerability occurs due to a dangling pointer in the Primetime SDK related to media player's quality of service functionality. A successful attack can lead to arbitrary code execution...

Cisco StarOS for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers File Overwrite Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Aggregation Services Routers could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite system files that are stored in the flash memory of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.161 addresses critical use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution CVE-2018-4877, CVE-2018-4878. Successful exploitation could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for...

MGASA-2018-0120 Updated flash-player-plugin packages fix security vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.161 addresses critical use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution CVE-2018-4877, CVE-2018-4878. Successful exploitation could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for...

2018-02 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4074595)

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article...

2018-02 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 8.1 for x86-based Systems (KB4074595)

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article...

2018-02 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB4074595)

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article...

2018-02 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems (KB4074595)

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product that could affect your system. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article...