A week in security (February 27 - March 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Fighting online censorship, or, encryption's latest surprise use-case, with Mallory Knodel: Lock and Code S04E05 How to work from home securely, the NSA way TikTok probed over child privacy practices iPhone users targeted in phone AND data theft campaign US Marshal...

Internet Explorer users still targeted by RIG exploit kit

Despite a very slim browser market share, Internet Explorer IE is still being exploited by exploit kits like the RIG exploit kit EK. One major advantage for the malware distributors behind the exploit kit is that the outdated browser has reached end-of-life EOL, which means it no longer receives...

Researchers Share New Insights Into RIG Exploit Kit Malware's Operations

The RIG exploit kit EK touched an all-time high successful exploitation rate of nearly 30% in 2022, new findings reveal. "RIG EK is a financially-motivated program that has been active since 2014," Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT said in an exhaustive report shared with The Hacker News...

Researchers Share New Insights Into RIG Exploit Kit Malware's Operations

The RIG exploit kit EK touched an all-time high successful exploitation rate of nearly 30% in 2022, new findings reveal. "RIG EK is a financially-motivated program that has been active since 2014," Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT said in an exhaustive report shared with The Hacker News...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: polkit-kde-5.27.1-1.fc37

Provides Policy Kit Authentication Agent that nicely fits to KDE...

Malicious Package

Overview @yandex-travel/eslint-kit is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-36289

Protection mechanism failure in the IntelR Media SDK software before version 22.2.2 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access...

PT-2023-12889 · Intel · Intel Sgx Sdk

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IntelR SGX SDK software for Linux versions prior to 2.16.100.1 Description: The issue is related to insufficient control flow management, which may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access...

Intel SGX SDK security vulnerabilities

Intel SGX SDK is a set of software development kits based on SGX Intel Software Security Extensions technology from Intel Corporation USA. A security vulnerability exists in the IntelR SGX SDK software for Linux prior to version 2.16.100.1, which stems from inadequate software control flow...

PT-2023-13473 · Intel +1 · Intel Media Sdk +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IntelR Media SDK versions prior to 22.2.2 Description: The issue is related to a protection mechanism failure in the IntelR Media SDK software, which may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access...

Intel SGX SDK security vulnerabilities

Intel SGX SDK is a set of software development kits based on SGX Intel Software Security Extensions technology from Intel Corporation USA. A security vulnerability exists in Intel SGX SDK versions prior to 2.16.100.1, which stems from an improper conditional checking in the software, and can be...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:0421-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE CVE-2005-3906

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in reflection APIs in Java SDK and JRE 1.4.208 and earlier and JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 3 and earlier allow remote attackers to escape the Java sandbox and access arbitrary files or execute arbitrary applications via unknown attack vectors, a different set of...

SUSE CVE-2006-2426

Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE 1.5.06 and earlier, JDK 1.5.06 and earlier, and SDK 1.5.06 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service disk consumption by using the Font.createFont function to create temporary files of arbitrary size in the %temp% directory...

SUSE CVE-2006-6737

Unspecified vulnerability in Sun Java Development Kit JDK and Java Runtime Environment JRE 5.0 Update 5 and earlier, Java System Development Kit SDK and JRE 1.4.210 and earlier 1.4.x versions, and SDK and JRE 1.3.118 and earlier allows attackers to use untrusted applets to "access data in other...

SUSE CVE-2007-2788

Integer overflow in the embedded ICC profile image parser in Sun Java Development Kit JDK before 1.5.011-b03 and 1.6.x before 1.6.001-b06, and Sun Java Runtime Environment in JDK and JRE 6, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.214 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.120 and earlier...

SUSE CVE-2007-3765

The STUN implementation in Asterisk 1.4.x before 1.4.8, AsteriskNOW before beta7, Appliance Developer Kit before 0.5.0, and s800i before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted STUN length attribute in a STUN packet sent on an RTP port...

SUSE CVE-2007-4381

Unspecified vulnerability in the font parsing implementation in Sun JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.4.214 and earlier, allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions via an applet that grants certain privileges to itself...

SUSE CVE-2008-1185

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine for Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE and JDK 6 Update 4 and earlier, 5.0 Update 14 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.216 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application or applet, a different issue than CVE-2008-1186,...

SUSE CVE-2008-1186

Unspecified vulnerability in the Virtual Machine for Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE and JDK 5.0 Update 13 and earlier, and SDK/JRE 1.4.216 and earlier, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application or applet, a different issue than CVE-2008-1185, aka "the second issue....