Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-1065)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

sLoad launches version 2.0, Starslord

sLoad, the PowerShell-based Trojan downloader notable for its almost exclusive use of the Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS for malicious activities, has launched version 2.0. The new version comes on the heels of a comprehensive blog we published detailing the malware’s multi-stage...

The New Year Calls for a Change in the OT Industry’s State of Security

In 2014, a Western European steel mill suffered serious damage from a phishing attack that penetrated its IT and Operational Technology OT networks the software and hardware dedicated to monitoring and controlling physical devices where attackers gained control of plant equipment. In 2018, 74% of...

Customer Guidance for the Dopplepaymer Ransomware

Microsoft has been investigating recent attacks by malicious actors using the Dopplepaymerransomware. There is misleading information circulating about Microsoft Teams, along with references to RDP BlueKeep, as ways in which this malware spreads. Our security research teams have investigated and...

There is a Skills Shortage, But it isn’t Your Real Problem

During my undergraduate days, I recall hearing that the Bell System was slow to deploy automated dialing. While smaller local phone companies allowed callers to dial a number directly from their phone, the Bell system continues to rely on switchboard operators into the 1930s. In fact, early phone...

CVE-2019-6470 dhcpd: use-after-free error leads crash in IPv6 mode when using mismatched BIND libraries

There had existed in one of the ISC BIND libraries a bug in a function that was used by dhcpd when operating in DHCPv6 mode. There was also a bug in dhcpd relating to the use of this function per its documentation, but the bug in the library function prevented this from causing any harm. All...

Solar, Wind Power Utility Disrupted in Rare Cyberattack

A cyberattack on the U.S. energy grid has just come to light, so to speak, which disrupted plant visibility at Utah-based sPower back in March. sPower, a Utah-based wind and solar provider, began experiencing a series of lost connections between its main control center and remote power-generation...

Unencrypted Mobile Traffic on Tor Network Leaks PII

Unencrypted, sensitive and confidential user data originating from millions of mobile devices is carried on the Tor network every day. Now researchers say they have devised away to scoop up that data and create personal profiles for specific mobile users, that include GPS coordinates, web...

SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks

Until now, I'm sure you all might have heard of the SimJacker vulnerability disclosed exactly a month ago that affects a wide range of SIM cards and can remotely be exploited to hack into any mobile phone just by sending a specially crafted binary SMS. If you are unaware, the name "SimJacker" has...

1B Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack

A vulnerability discovered in mobile SIM cards is being actively exploited to track phone owners’ locations, intercept calls and more – all merely by sending an SMS message to victims, researchers say. Researchers on Thursday disclosed what they said is a widespread, ongoing exploit of a SIM...

SUSE-SU-2019:14155-1 Recommended update for ghostscript-library

This update for ghostscript-library fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-3838: Fixed various bugs which allows to reenable and misuse system Postscript operators to read files from within Postscript files and send them with the help of e.g. the %pipe% to the attacker...

Adwind Spyware-as-a-Service Attacks Utility Grid Operators

A phishing campaign that spoofs a PDF attachment to deliver Adwind spyware has been taking aim at national grid utilities infrastructure. Adwind, a.k.a. JRAT or SockRat, is being used in a malware-as-a-service model in this campaign, researchers said. It offers a full cadre of info-gathering...

Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated postgresql packages fix security vulnerabilities: Given a suitable SECURITY DEFINER function, an attacker can execute arbitrary SQL under the identity of the function owner. An attack requires EXECUTE permission on the function, which must itself contain a function call having inexact...

Adobe Acrobat CoolType (AFDKO) - Memory Corruption in the Handling of Type 1 Font loadstore Operators

Adobe Acrobat CoolType AFDKO - Memory Corruption in the Handling of Type 1 Font loadstore Operators -----===== Background =====----- AFDKO Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType is a set of tools for examining, modifying and building fonts. The core part of this toolset is a font handling librar...

Adobe Acrobat CoolType (AFDKO) - Memory Corruption in the Handling of Type 1 Font load/store Operators

-----===== Background =====----- AFDKO Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType is a set of tools for examining, modifying and building fonts. The core part of this toolset is a font handling library written in C, which provides interfaces for reading and writing Type 1, OpenType, TrueType to some...

ghostscript security, bug fix, and enhancement update

9.25-2 - obsoleted old ghostscript-devel to allow clean upgrade to libgs-devel 9.25-1 - Rebase to latest upstream version bug 1636115 - Resolves: 1673399 - CVE-2019-3839 ghostscript: missing attack vector protections for CVE-2019-6116 - Resolves: 1678172 - CVE-2019-3835 ghostscript: superexec...

USN-4090-1 postgresql-10, postgresql-11, postgresql-9.5 vulnerabilities

Tom Lane discovered that PostgreSQL did not properly restrict functions declared as "SECURITY DEFINER". An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary SQL with the permissions of the function owner. CVE-2019-10208 Andreas Seltenreich discovered that PostgreSQL did not properly handle user-define...

Vulnerability in core server (CVE-2019-10209)

Memory disclosure in cross-type comparison for hashed subplan In a database containing hypothetical, user-defined hash equality operators, an attacker could read arbitrary bytes of server memory. For an attack to become possible, a superuser would need to create unusual operators. It is possible...

WordPress iLive 1.0.4 Plugin - Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: iLive - Intelligent WordPress Live Chat Support Plugin v1.0.4 Stored XSS Injection Exploit Author: m0ze Vendor Homepage: http://www.ilive.wpapplab.com/ Software Link:...

WordPress iLive 1.0.4 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: iLive - Intelligent WordPress Live Chat Support Plugin v1.0.4 Stored XSS Injection Google Dork: - Date: 2019/06/25 Exploit Author: m0ze Vendor Homepage: http://www.ilive.wpapplab.com/ Software Link: https://codecanyon.net/item/ilive-wordpress-live-chat-support-plugin/20496563...