Assessing Risk for the October 2014 Security Updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 24 unique CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and five have a maximum severity rating of Important. This table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environment...

Moab Workload Manage 7.2.9 / 8 User Impersonation Vulnerability

Moab versions prior to 7.2.9 and 8 suffer from a user impersonation vulnerability. Moab User Impersonation : CVE-2014-5375 Software: Moab Affected Versions: All current versions of Moab. However, the impact is limited in Moab 7.2.9 and Moab 8. CVE Reference: CVE-2014-5375 Author: John Fitzpatrick...

VMware product updates address critical Bash security vulnerabilities

a. Bash update for multiple products. Bash libraries have been updated in multiple products to resolve multiple critical security issues, also referred to as Shellshock.The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project cve.mitre.org has assigned the identifiers CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169,...

VMSA-2014-0010:VMware product updates address CRITICAL Bash security vulnerabilities

VMSA-2014-0010.13 VMware product updates address critical Bash security vulnerabilities VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2014-0010.13 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware product updates address critical Bash security vulnerabilities VMware Security Advisor...

WordPress Plugin Login Widget With ShortCode 3.1.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

WordPress Plugin Login Widget With ShortCode 3.1.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Details ================ Software: Login Widget With Shortcode Version: 3.1.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/ Advisory report:...

As Bug Bounties Become the Norm, Challenges Remain

SEATTLE–For many years, Microsoft and other large software vendors resisted the idea of providing bug bounties or other financial incentives for researchers to report vulnerabilities. That changed when the landscape began to shift and more researchers began reporting vulnerabilities through broke...

Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty Program Launches

Microsoft had always rejected the possibility of a full-scale bug bounty, relying instead on solid relationships it spent the better part of a decade fostering with researchers worldwide who submit vulnerabilities to the Microsoft Security Research Center MSRC. Yet in the past couple of years, th...

CoreGraphics Information Disclosure - CVE-2014-4378

This article explores the exploitability of MobileSafari on IOS 7.1.x. Using a crafted PDF file as an HTML image makes it possible to leak information about the memory layout to the browser Javascript interpreter. Apple CoreGraphics library fails to validate input when parsing the colorspace...

WordPress Login Widget With Shortcode 3.1.1 CSRF / XSS Vulnerabilities

WordPress Login Widget With Shortcode plugin version 3.1.1 suffers from cross site request forgery and cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Details ================ Software: Login Widget With Shortcode Version: 3.1.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/ Advisory report:...

Series of Vulnerabilities Found in Schneider Electric SCADA Products

UPDATE–There are several unpatched, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in a number of Schneider Electric’s SCADA products, one of which could be used to perform a shutdown of the SCADA server. Another of the vulnerabilities is an authentication bypass that could give an attacker access to...

WordPress Login Widget With Shortcode 3.1.1 CSRF / XSS

Details ================ Software: Login Widget With Shortcode Version: 3.1.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/ Advisory report:...

September 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletins

The Operation SnowMan espionage campaign, which targeted military intelligence earlier this year via an Internet Explorer zero day, exposed a weak spot in Microsoft’s vulnerability management efforts. What was unique about the SnowMan operation is that it included a check as to whether the...

Microsoft to Fix Broken Patch Tuesday Security Update

Microsoft is still hammering away at a fix for a security update released last week that caused a small number of computers to crash and blue screen. “We are aware of some issues related to the recent updates and we are working on a fix,” a Microsoft representative today told Threatpost. MS14-045...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Local Client Application Device Control Buffer Overflow

SUMMARY Symantec is aware of a local access Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP client buffer overflow exploit that has been released publicly which could potentially cause a BSOD on the client or possibly allow unauthorized local privilege elevation on Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP clients...

Microsoft Releases EMET 5.0 Exploit Mitigation Tool

The latest version of Microsoft’s freely available stopgap against zero-day exploits was released today with two new exploit mitigations and a batch of new configuration options. The update to Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Tool kit, or EMET, comes six months after a technical preview...

General Availability for Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.0

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET 5.0. EMET is a free tool, designed to help customers with their defense in depth strategies against cyberattacks, by helping block and terminate the most common techniques adversaries might u...

Siemens Working on Patches for OpenSSL Bugs Under Exploit

Siemens says it is working on patches for four critical vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL libraries it uses in a number of its industrial control products, flaws that are being exploited in the wild. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT cautioned too that critical...

The LZO/LZ4 Integer Overflow Summary

Integer overflow in the LZ4 algorithm implementation, as used in Yann Collet LZ4 before r118 and in the lz4uncompress function in lib/lz4/lz4decompress.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2, on 32-bit platforms might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption o...

MSN Messenger 6.2.0137 PNG Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12506/info A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger. This vulnerability is related to parsing of Portable Network Graphics PNG image header data. Successful exploitation will...

Wordpress Twitget Plugin 3.3.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Details ================ Software: Twitget Version: 3.3.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitget/ Advisory ID: dxw-1970-435 CVE: CVE-2014-2559 CVSS: 6.4 Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Description ================ CSRF/XSS vulnerability in Twitget 3.3...