Microsoft Guidance for Speculative Store Bypass

Executive summary On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly-discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown involving speculative execution side channels that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. On May 21s...

Analysis and mitigation of speculative store bypass (CVE-2018-3639)

In January, 2018, Microsoft published an advisory and security updates for a new class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown. In this blog post, we will provide a technical analysis of an additional subclass of speculative executio...

Citrix XenMobile 10.x Multiple Security Updates

Description of Problem A number of security vulnerabilities have been identified in Citrix XenMobile Server. The vulnerabilities have been assigned the following CVE numbers. Affecting XenMobile Server 10.7 and 10.8: CVE-2018-10653 High: XML External Entity XXE Processing Vulnerability in Citrix...

Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid

Flying squid are real. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 14, 2018

It’s one thing when your security solutions help protect your organization from a devastating cyberattack. It’s another thing when the company who develops your security solutions takes it to the next level to actually help catch those responsible for some of the biggest cyberattacks in the world...

MGASA-2018-0248 Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities: Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 52.8 CVE-2018-5150. Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia CVE-2018-5183. Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths CVE-2018-5154. Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG...

JVN#81196185: The installer of Visual C++ Redistributable may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries

The installer of Visual C++ Redistributable provided Microsoft contains an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries in the same directory as the installer CWE-427. Microsoft states that the root cause of this vulnerability is "Application Directo...

RHEL 7 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:1396)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1396 advisory. The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems...

RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2018:1446)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1446 advisory. Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit Blink. This update upgrades Chromium to version 66.0.3359.170. Security Fixes:...

OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : dhcp (OVMSA-2018-0042)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Added oracle-errwarn-message.patch - Resolves: 1570897 - Fix comamnd execution in NM script CVE-2018-1111 - Resolves: 1550085 - CVE-2018-5733 Avoid reference overflow 12:4.1.1-53.P1.2 - Resolves:...

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco Security Advisories and apply the necessa...

Adobe Doles Out Second Round of Higher Priority Patches

A week after issuing updates on Patch Tuesday, Adobe has posted patches for a second slew of 24 critical vulnerabilities, which have a higher risk of being exploited. This week’s crop of vulnerabilities, of which there were 47 overall, impact versions of Adobe’s Acrobat DC Acrobat Reader DC, and...

Adobe Reader 2017 Security Updates (APSB18-09) - Windows

Adobe Reader 2017 is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobatreader";...

Adobe Acrobat 2017 Security Updates (APSB18-09) - Windows

Adobe Acrobat 2017 is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat";...

Adobe Reader DC (Classic Track) Security Updates (APSB18-09) - Windows

Adobe Reader DC Classic Track is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 CPE =...

Adobe Acrobat 2017 Security Updates (APSB18-09) - Mac OS X

Adobe Acrobat 2017 is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat";...

Adobe Reader 2017 Security Updates (APSB18-09) - Mac OS X

Adobe Reader 2017 is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobatreader";...

Adobe Reader DC (Classic Track) Security Updates (APSB18-09) - Mac OS X

Adobe Reader DC Classic Track is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 CPE =...

Adobe Acrobat DC (Classic Track) Security Updates (APSB18-09) - Mac OS X

Adobe Acrobat DC Classic Track is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 CPE =...

Adobe Releases Critical Security Updates for Acrobat, Reader and Photoshop CC

Adobe has just released new versions of its Acrobat DC, Reader and Photoshop CC for Windows and macOS users that patch 48 vulnerabilities in its software. A total of 47 vulnerabilities affect Adobe Acrobat and Reader applications, and one critical remote code execution flaw has been patched in...