A week in security (October 14 – 20)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we tried to unlock the future of the password its vulnerabilities, current alternatives, and possible future disappearance, analyzed the lagging response by many businesses in adopting a patch for Pulse VPN vulnerability, looked at Instagram’s bulked-up security...

Exploit for Use After Free in Google Android

CVE-2019-2215 Temproot for Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL via CVE-...

Exploit for Use After Free in Google Android

CVE-2019-2215 The following issue exists in the android-msm-wa...

Exploit for Use After Free in Google Android

qu1ckr00t A PoC application demonstrating the power of an Andr...

CVE-2017-5407

Using SVG filters that don't use the fixed point math implementation on a target iframe, a malicious page can extract pixel values from a targeted user. This can be used to extract history information and read text values across domains. This violates same-origin policy and leads to information...

Google October Android Security Update Fixes Critical RCE Flaws

UPDATE Google has released fixes for three critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Media framework of its Android operating system, which if exploited could allow a remote attacker to execute code. The remote code execution RCE flaws are part of Google’s October 2019 Android Security Bulletin,...

PT-2019-5855 · Imagemagick +5 · Imagemagick +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0 Description: The issue is related to multiple unconstrained pixel offset calculations in functions CatromWeights, MeshInterpolate, InterpolatePixelChannel, InterpolatePixelChannels, and InterpolatePixelIn...

Pixel Update Bulletin—October 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2019-10-05 or later address all issues in this bulletin and all issues in the October 2019 Android...

Android Security Bulletin—October 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Security patch levels of 2019-10-06 or later address all of these issues. To learn how to check a device's security patch level, see Check & update your Android version. Android partners are...

Google Warns of Android Zero-Day Bug Under Active Attack

Google is warning of an Android zero-day flaw actively being exploited in the wild, which gives an attacker full control over 18 phone models including its flagship Pixel handset and devices made by Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi. Google’s Project Zero warned late Thursday that it suspected the...

New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild

Another day, another revelation of a critical unpatched zero-day vulnerability, this time in the world's most widely used mobile operating system, Android. What's more? The Android zero-day vulnerability has also been found to be exploited in the wild by the Israeli surveillance vendor NSO...

Android - Binder Driver Use-After-Free Exploit

The following issue exists in the android-msm-wahoo-4.4-pie branch of https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm and possibly others: There is a use-after-free of the wait member in the binderthread struct in the binder driver at /drivers/android/binder.c. As described in the upstream commit:...

Android - Binder Driver Use-After-Free

Android - Binder Driver Use-After-Free The following issue exists in the android-msm-wahoo-4.4-pie branch of https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm and possibly others: There is a use-after-free of the wait member in the binderthread struct in the binder driver at /drivers/android/binder.c. ...

Android - Binder Driver Use-After-Free

The following issue exists in the android-msm-wahoo-4.4-pie branch of https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm and possibly others: There is a use-after-free of the wait member in the binderthread struct in the binder driver at /drivers/android/binder.c. As described in the upstream commit:...

Google Android Binder CVE-2019-2215 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Google Android is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges. Technologies Affected Google Android 10.0 Google Android 9.0 Google Pixel 2 Recommendations Permit local access for trusted individuals only. Wher...

CVE-2019-5521

VMware ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201903001, Workstation 15.x before 15.0.3 and 14.x before 14.1.6 and Fusion 11.x before 11.0.3 and 10.x before 10.1.6 contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the pixel shader functionality. Successful exploitation of this...

Out-of-bounds

VMware ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201903001, Workstation 15.x before 15.0.3 and 14.x before 14.1.6 and Fusion 11.x before 11.0.3 and 10.x before 10.1.6 contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the pixel shader functionality. Successful exploitation of this...

CVE-2019-5521

VMware ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201903001, Workstation 15.x before 15.0.3 and 14.x before 14.1.6 and Fusion 11.x before 11.0.3 and 10.x before 10.1.6 contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the pixel shader functionality. Successful exploitation of this...

AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Open VMware Workstations to Attack

A remote code-execution bug exists in some configurations of the AMD Radeon graphics card that could allow an attacker to take control of a targeted system. The hack entails luring users of vulnerable systems to visit a specially crafted website that can deliver “a malformed pixel shader” to eith...

AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL shader functionality remote code execution vulnerability

Summary An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver, versions 25.20.15031.5004 and 25.20.15031.9002. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause an out-of-bounds memory write. An attacker can provide a specially crafted shader file to trigger this vulnerability...