Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 5: Where Do We Go from Here?

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero Overall, our video conferencing research found a total of 11 bugs in WebRTC, FaceTime and WhatsApp. The majority of these were found through less than 15 minutes of mutation fuzzing RTP. We were surprised to find remote bugs so easily in code that is so...

McAfee True Key - McAfee.TrueKey.Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits McAfee True Key: Multiple Issues with McAfee.TrueKey.Service Implementation Platform: Version 5.1.173.1 on Windows 10 1809. Class: Elevation of Privilege Summary: There are multiple issues in the implementation of the McAfee.TrueKey.Service...

Adobe December 2018 Security Update Fixes Reader, Acrobat

Adobe has patched 87 vulnerabilities for Acrobat and Reader in its December Patch Tuesday update, including a slew of critical flaws that would allow arbitrary code-execution. The scheduled update comes less than a week after Adobe released several out-of-band fixes for Flash Player, including a...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4301)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4301 advisory. - mnt: Prevent pivotroot from creating a loop in the mount tree Eric W. Biederman Orabug: 26575709 CVE-2014-7970 CVE-2014-7970 - vfs: more mntparen...

RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2018:3803)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3803 advisory. Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit Blink. This update upgrades Chromium to version 71.0.3578.80. Security Fixes:...

McAfee True Key - McAfee.TrueKey.Service Privilege Escalation

McAfee True Key - McAfee.TrueKey.Service Privilege Escalation McAfee True Key: Multiple Issues with McAfee.TrueKey.Service Implementation Platform: Version 5.1.173.1 on Windows 10 1809. Class: Elevation of Privilege Summary: There are multiple issues in the implementation of the...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4299)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4299 advisory. - xfs: don't call xfsdashrinkinode with NULL bp Eric Sandeen Orabug: 28898616 CVE-2018-13094 - ALSA: rawmidi: Change resized buffers atomically...

openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2018-1521)

This update to Chromium version 71.0.3578.80 fixes security issues and bugs. Security issues fixed boo1118529 : - CVE-2018-17480: Out of bounds write in V8 - CVE-2018-17481: Use after frees in PDFium - CVE-2018-18335: Heap buffer overflow in Skia - CVE-2018-18336: Use after free in PDFium -...

[ASA-201812-2] chromium: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201812-2 ========================================= Severity: Critical Date : 2018-12-08 CVE-ID : CVE-2018-17480 CVE-2018-17481 CVE-2018-18335 CVE-2018-18336 CVE-2018-18337 CVE-2018-18338 CVE-2018-18339 CVE-2018-18340 CVE-2018-18341 CVE-2018-18342 CVE-2018-18343...

CISO series: Strengthen your organizational immune system with cybersecurity hygiene

One of the things I love about my job is the time I get to spend with security professionals, learning firsthand about the challenges of managing security strategy and implementation day to day. There are certain themes that come up over and over in these conversations. My colleague Ken Malcolmso...

Information disclosure

The implementation of the Page.downloadBehavior backend unconditionally marked downloaded files as safe, regardless of file type in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted...

Design/Logic Flaw

In LibSass prior to 3.5.5, functions inside ast.cpp for IMPLEMENTASTOPERATORS expansion allow attackers to cause a denial-of-service resulting from stack consumption via a crafted sass file, as demonstrated by recursive calls involving clone, cloneChildren, and copy...

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...

Infosec Teams Race To Secure DevOps

With DevOps adoption spreading, infosec teams are scrambling to address the new security challenges stemming from DevOps’ accelerated code development and app deployment. But while IT organizations have made notable progress adapting security to their DevOps processes, work remains to be done...

Atlantis Word Processor Huffman table code length remote code execution vulnerability

Summary 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 ...

USN-3824-1 openjdk-7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK did not properly ensure that manifest elements were signed before use. An attacker could possibly use this to specially construct an untrusted Java application or applet that could escape sandbox restrictions. CVE-2018-3136 Artem Smotrakov...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-3820-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3820-3 advisory. Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform input validation in some situations. An attacker could...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3821-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3821-1 advisory. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that xattr information remained in inode bodies. An...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3822-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3822-1 advisory. Jim Mattson discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel mismanages the BP and OF exceptions. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine...

USN-3820-3: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform input validation in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-15471 It was discovered that the generic SCSI...