Hackers Using MSIX App Packages to Infect Windows PCs with GHOSTPULSE Malware

A new cyber attack campaign has been observed using spurious MSIX Windows app package files for popular software such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Grammarly, and Cisco Webex to distribute a novel malware loader dubbed GHOSTPULSE. "MSIX is a Windows app package format that developers c...

The vulnerabilities of Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers, as well as the Thunderbird email client, are related to insufficient warnings about dangerous actions, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities of Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers, as well as the Thunderbird email client, are related to insufficient warnings about dangerous actions. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code using specially crafted files with extensions .msix,...

CVE-2023-5727

The executable file warning was not presented when downloading .msix, .msixbundle, .appx, and .appxbundle files, which can run commands on a user's computer. Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox 119,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5727

The executable file warning was not presented when downloading .msix, .msixbundle, .appx, and .appxbundle files, which can run commands on a user's computer. Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox 119,...

CVE-2023-5727

The executable file warning was not presented when downloading .msix, .msixbundle, .appx, and .appxbundle files, which can run commands on a user's computer. Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox 119,...

CVE-2023-5727

The executable file warning was not presented when downloading .msix, .msixbundle, .appx, and .appxbundle files, which can run commands on a user's computer. Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox 119,...

Mozilla Firefox Security Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser from the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Mozilla Firefox version 119, which originates from downloading .msix, .msixbundle, .appx, and .appxbundle files without an executable warning...

ConfigSync Failure May Be Seen When Delivering App-V, MSIX, or MSIX App Attach Packages

For customers using Delivery Controller Version 2308 and delivering App-V, MSIX or MSIX app attach packages through Citrix, errors with the source “Citrix ConfigSync Service” and the Event ID “505” may be logged to the Windows Event Viewer on Delivery Controllers with the following message: “The...

kernel: RDMA/irdma: Cap MSIX used to online CPUs + 1

A bounds checking flaw was found in the Intel RDMA irdma driver in the Linux kernel. The driver may request more MSIX vectors than online CPUs allow, then attempt to set CPU affinity hints with an invalid CPU mask. This triggers kernel warnings and could cause instability...

kernel: RDMA/irdma: Cap MSIX used to online CPUs + 1

A bounds checking flaw was found in the Intel RDMA irdma driver in the Linux kernel. The driver may request more MSIX vectors than online CPUs allow, then attempt to set CPU affinity hints with an invalid CPU mask. This triggers kernel warnings and could cause instability...

K61547155: QEMU vulnerabilities CVE-2020-10761, CVE-2020-13361, CVE-2020-13362, CVE-2020-13659, and CVE-2020-13754

Security Advisory Description CVE-2020-10761 An assertion failure issue was found in the Network Block DeviceNBD Server in all QEMU versions before QEMU 5.0.1. This flaw occurs when an nbd-client sends a spec-compliant request that is near the boundary of maximum permitted request length. A remot...

SUSE CVE-2014-1666

The dophysdevop function in Xen 4.1.5, 4.1.6.1, 4.2.2 through 4.2.3, and 4.3.x does not properly restrict access to the 1 PHYSDEVOPpreparemsix and 2 PHYSDEVOPreleasemsix operations, which allows local PV guests to cause a denial of service host or guest malfunction or possibly gain privileges via...

SUSE CVE-2015-7549

The MSI-X MMIO support in hw/pci/msix.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash by leveraging failure to define the .write method...

SUSE CVE-2020-27821

A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting i...

Microsoft Temporarily Disables MSIX App Installers to Prevent Malware Abuse

Microsoft last week announced that it's temporarily disabling the MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler in Windows following evidence that a security vulnerability in the installer component was exploited by threat actors to deliver malware such as Emotet, TrickBot, and Bazaloader. MSIX, based on...

Security update for qemu (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for qemu Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1942-1 Rating: important References: 1149813 1163019 1175144 1175534 1176681 1178683 1178935 1179477 1179484 1179686 1181103 1182282 1182425 1182968 1182975 1183373 1186290 Cross-References: CVE-2019-15890...

UVI-2021-1000025 dmaengine: idxd: clear MSIX permission entry on shutdown

dmaengine: idxd: clear MSIX permission entry on shutdown This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.11.16 by commit...

GSD-2021-1000025 dmaengine: idxd: clear MSIX permission entry on shutdown

dmaengine: idxd: clear MSIX permission entry on shutdown This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.11.16 by commit...

QEMU: heap buffer overflow in msix_table_mmio_write() in hw/pci/msix.c

A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache. This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting i...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2021-600)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-12829: Fix OOB access in sm501 device emulation bsc1172385 - CVE-2020-25723: Fix use-after-free in usb xhci packet handling bsc1178934 - CVE-2020-25084: Fix use-after-free in usb ehci packet handling bsc1176673 - CVE-2020-25625: Fix...