Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 48 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 6 are classified as "Critical", 41 are classified as "Important", with the remaining vulnerability classified as "Moderate." One of the critical vulnerabilities, which Microsoft...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Memory corruption vulnerability discovered in PowerISO

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in PowerISO. TALOS-2022-1644 CVE-2022-41992 is a memory corruption vulnerability that exists in the VHD File Format parsing functionality of PowerISO 8.3. A specially crafte...

Vulnerability Spotlight: NVIDIA driver memory corruption vulnerabilities discovered

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered two memory corruption vulnerabilities in shader functionality of an NVIDIA driver. NVIDIA Graphics drivers are software for NVIDIA Graphics GPU installed on the PC. They are used to communicate between th...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Lansweeper directory traversal and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered several directory traversal and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Lansweeper. Lansweeper is an IT Asset Management solution that gathers hardware and software information of computers and...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Callback Technologies CBFS Filter denial-of-service vulnerabilities

Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered three denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Callback Technologies CBFS Filter. Callback Technologies has a CBFS file storage solution for use in customizing data persistence on devices. To accompany...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Microsoft Office class attribute double-free vulnerability

Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered a class attribute double-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office is a suite of tools used for productivity in both a corporate environment as well as by end-users. It offers a ran...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader could lead to arbitrary code execution

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered several use-after-free vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader that could lead to arbitrary code execution. The Foxit Reader is one of the most popular PDF document readers, which aims to have feature pari...

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 3, 2022): Mastodon, evolution, and LiveJournal oh my!

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Im fascinated by how things live and die on the internet. Things that are ubiquitous to our daily lives are simply gone the next. LiveJournal and Myspace we hardly knew you. Elon Musks purchase of Twitter and the subsequent exodus led...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple issues in Robustel R1510 cellular router could lead to code execution, denial of service

Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered nine vulnerabilities in the Robustel R1510 industrial cellular router, several of which could allow an adversary to inject operating system code remotely. The Robustel R1510 router is a...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Data deserialization in VMware vCenter could lead to remote code execution

Marcin "Icewall" Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable data deserialization vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server platform. VMware is one of the most popular virtual machine solutions currently available, and its vCenter software...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Data deserialization in VMware vCenter could lead to remote code execution

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable data deserialization vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server platform. VMware is one of the most popular virtual machine solutions currently available, and it...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Issue in Hancom Office 2020 could lead to code execution

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in Hancom Office 2020. Hancom Office is a popular software collection among South Korean users that offers similar products to...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Three vulnerabilities in HDF5 file format could lead to remote code execution

Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered three vulnerabilities in a library that works with the HDF5 file format that could allow an attacker to execute remote code on a targeted device. These issues arise in the libhdf5...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Alyac antivirus program could stop virus scanning, cause code execution

Jaewon Min of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Update Aug. 3, 2022: Talos disclosed two new vulnerabilities in the Alyac antivirus software and added their details to this post. Cisco Talos recently discovered out-of-bounds read and buffer overflow vulnerabilitie...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Issue in Accusoft ImageGear could lead to memory corruption, code execution

Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in Accusoft ImageGear's PSD header processing function. The ImageGear library is a document-imaging developer toolkit that allows users to create,...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free condition in Google Chrome WebGPU

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome’s WebGPU standard. Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser — and Chromium is the open-source version of the browser tha...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat DC use-after-free issues could lead to arbitrary code execution

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered two use-after-free vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC that could allow an attacker to eventually gain the ability to execute arbitrary code. Acrobat is one of the most...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

By Jon Munshaw and Tiago Pereira. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing more than 80 vulnerabilities in the company’s various software, hardware and firmware offerings, including one that’s actively being exploited in the wild. July's security update... This is only t...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

By Chetan Raghuprasad. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 55 vulnerabilities in the company’s firmware and software. One of these vulnerabilities is considered critical, 40 are listed as high severity, and the remainder is considered "moderate." The most... This is...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

By Jon Munshaw, with contributions from Jaeson Schultz. Microsoft returned to its normal monthly patching volume in May, disclosing and fixing 74 vulnerabilities as part of the company’s latest security update. This month’s Patch Tuesday includes seven critical vulnerabilities after Microsoft...