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CVE-2019-2240: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
While sending the rendered surface content to the screen, Error handling is not properly checked results in an unpredictable behaviour in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT,...
Fails and Fixes with IoT
After nearly 6 years of tearing apart 'internet of things' devices, here's a look at the high level fails that we keep seeing. We're not going to go in to point issues such as Wi-Fi credential leakage and Bluetooth compromise: our blog is littered with those! What are the root issues and what can...
We can control you see the content: mainstream IPTV remote code execution vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net
About a year ago, Check Point Research Team found that the Ukrainian TV streaming platform, there is a serious vulnerability, once exploited, could enable service providers face a serious risk. Specifically, an attacker can get the entire customer database of personal information and financial...
Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap
The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...
Researcher Exploits Microsoft's Notepad to 'Pop a Shell'
A memory corruption bug in the Microsoft’s Windows Notepad application can be used to open remote shell access – typically a first step for attackers infiltrating a system. The bug was found by Tavis Ormandy, a bug hunter with Google’s Project Zero team. In a tweet he indicated that the bug was...
PT-2019-6461
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions through 5.1.5 Description The issue is related to the ip6 ra control function in the net/ipv6/ipv6 sockglue.c component of the Linux kernel, which is associated with errors in pointer dereferencing. Exploitation of this...
Step 9. Protect your OS: top 10 actions to secure your environment
In “Step 9. Protect your OS” of the Top 10 actions to secure your environment blog series, we provide resources to help you configure Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP to defend your Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android devices from advanced threats. In an...
Microsoft Guidance to mitigate Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilities
Executive Summary On May 14, 2019, Intel published information about a new subclass of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities may be able to read privileged data across trust...
May 2, 2019—KB4502112 (OS Build 15063.1785)
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Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations
Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...
Using Semmle QL vulnerability out Part2-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net
First part of this series introduced the Semmle QL, as well as the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC how to use it to review to our report the vulnerability. This article discusses a How do we take the initiative to use it examples, including Azure firmware component of a security audit. Th...
Android Messaging: A Few Bugs Short of a Chain
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero About a year and a half ago, I did some research into Android messaging and mail clients. At the time, I didn’t blog about it, because though I found bugs, I wasn’t able to assemble them into a credible attack. However, in the spirit of writing about...
Recommendations for deploying the latest Attack surface reduction rules for maximum impact
The keystone to good security hygiene is limiting your attack surface. Attack surface reduction is a technique to remove or constrain exploitable behaviors in your systems. In this blog, we discuss the two attack surface reduction rules introduced in the most recent release of Windows and cover...
3 Reasons Your Business Needs Security at the Edge
As a security professional, no one knows better than you that the attack surface is shifting and continues to expand across an ever-widening area. Our interconnected digital lives are wreaking havoc with the idea of "the perimeter." As digital attacks continue to grow in size and volume, and are...
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29178)
Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29176)
Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29174)
Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...
DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7637
SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...
