CVE-2021-40465

CVE-2021-40465, Windows Text Shaping Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, is documented with CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (HIGH) and CVSS2 base 6.8 (MEDIUM) by NVD/Microsoft, indicating LOCAL exploitability with LOW attack complexity and user interaction required. The available sources in the provided...

CVE-2021-40465 Windows Text Shaping Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Windows Text Shaping Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Microsoft Windows 代码注入漏洞

Microsoft Windows is a suite of operating systems for use on personal devices from Microsoft Corporation USA. A code injection vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows Text Shaping. The following products and editions are affected: Windows 10 Version 1909 for 32-bit Systems,Windows 10 Version 19...

KLA12309 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Products (ESU)

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Products Extended Security Update. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to spoof user interface, bypass security restrictions, obtain sensitive information, gain privileges, execute arbitrary code, cause denial of service. Below is a...

Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict

From Afghanistan to cyberattacks, Frank Herbert’s novel anticipated and shaped warfare as we know it...

Exploit for Path Traversal in F5 Big-Ip_Access_Policy_Manager

RCE-CVE-2020-5902 BIG-IP F5 Remote Code Execution Descripti...

Aerotech Ensemble QL/QLe Servo Drives Detection

Binary data 763921.prm...

The language of InfoSec

As the cybersecurity industry has evolved, one dynamic has remained consistent: our industry-"speak". We use a language that is very unique, difficult for new folks to understand, and oftentimes just plain sensationalistic. While any industry has its own technical terms, our language can also be ...

Evillimiter - Limits Bandwidth Of Devices On The Same Network

A tool to limit the bandwidth upload/download of devices connected to your network without physical or administrative access. evillimiter employs ARP spoofing and traffic shaping to throttle the bandwidth of hosts on the network. This is explained in detail below. Requirements Linux distribution...

China's Hacking of the Border Gateway Protocol

This is a long -- and somewhat technical -- paper by Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt about China's repeated hacking of the Internet Border Gateway Protocol BGP: "China's Maxim ­ Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom's BGP Hijacking." BGP hacking is how large...

This Week in Security News: Zippy’s and Flynn

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Hawaii-based restaurant Zippy’s suffered a POS data breach. In addition, Uber executive John Flynn argued that user expectations on data...

How to regulate Network traffic flow to assure a certain level of quality of service (QoS)

This article describes howTraffic shaping allows you to regulate the network traffic flow to assure a certain level of quality of service QoS...

Huawei Honor 9 Bastet Driver Shaping Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-33817)

Honor 9 is a smartphone from Chinese company Huawei Huawei. A shaping overflow vulnerability exists in the Huawei Honor 9 Bastet driver. An attacker induces a user to install a malicious application that has gained root privileges, and the application can exploit the vulnerability to send specifi...

Researchers Figure Out How to Blind ISPs from Smart Home Device Traffic

Researchers have come up with a way to blind ISPs and attackers in a man-in-the-middle position to network traffic emanating from smart home devices. Smart devices such as sleep monitors, electric switches, security cameras and many others require an internet connection to function properly. They...

More on the NSA's Use of Traffic Shaping

"Traffic shaping" -- the practice of tricking data to flow through a particular route on the Internet so it can be more easily surveiled -- is an NSA technique that has gotten much less attention than it deserves. It's a powerful technique that allows an eavesdropper to get access to communicatio...

Open Source Firewall: OPNsense

Open Source Firewall: OPNsense OPNsense is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. OPNsense includes most of the features available in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. It brings the rich feature set of commercial offerings...

HarfBuzz: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in HarfBuzz. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Remote attackers, through the use of crafted data, could cause a Denial of Service condition or hav...

Debian DLA-668-1 : libass security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libass, a library for manipulating the SubStation Alpha SSA subtitle file format. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues. CVE-2016-7969 Mode 0/3 line wrapping equalization in specific cases which could result in...

Updated libass packages fixes security vulnerabilities

Amount of memory allocated during memory reallocation in the shaper wasn't tracked, possibly resulting in undefined behavior CVE-2016-7972. Illegal read in Gaussian blur coefficient calculations CVE-2016-7970. Mode 0/3 line wrapping equalization in specific cases could result in illegal reads whi...