Microsoft Patches Zero Day Disclosed by Google

Microsoft followed through and today patched a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in public attacks that was disclosed by Google researchers nine days ago. The victims have yet to have been identified, but Microsoft did accuse the Sofacy APT gang of carrying out the attacks. Sofacy is general...

Adobe Patches Nine Code Execution Flaws in Flash Player

Two weeks after rushing out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability, Adobe today released another Flash Player security update. The new release patched nine vulnerabilities, all of which expose the host system to remote code execution. Adobe said it is not aware of public exploits against...

Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Kernel API enforces permissions. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could impersonate processes, interject cross-process communication, or interrupt system functionality. To exploit the vulnerability,...

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or...

November 2016 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

November 2016 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Summary This security updates includes improvements and fixes from update 3192403. To learn more about the non-security improvements and fixes in this update, see the October 18, 2016 — KB3192403 Previe...

Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Windows kernel that could allow an attacker to retrieve information that could lead to a Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR bypass. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could retrieve the memory address of a...

MS16-135: Description of the security update for Windows kernel-mode drivers: November 8, 2016

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Microsoft Windows Kernel 'NtSetWindowLongPtr()' Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems released by the American company Microsoft. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the 'NtSetWindowLongPtr' function of the Windows Kernel. This vulnerability is exploited locally to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges,...

Microsoft Says Russian APT Group Behind Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft has singled out Sofacy, an APT group long thought to have ties to Russia’s military intelligence arm GRU, as the entity behind targeted attacks leveraging Windows kernel and Adobe Flash zero days in targeted attacks. The group, which Microsoft calls Strontium, is also known as APT28, Ts...

October 27, 2016 — KB3197954 (OS Build 14393.351)

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Microsoft Windows Kernel - Registry Hive Loading Negative RtlMoveMemory Size in nt!CmpCheckValueList (MS16-124)

Microsoft Windows Kernel - Registry Hive Loading Negative RtlMoveMemory Size in nt!CmpCheckValueList MS16-124 Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=873 We have encountered Windows kernel crashes in the memmove function called by nt!CmpCheckValueList while loading...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - Registry Hive Loading Relative Arbitrary Read in nt!RtlValidRelativeSecurityDescriptor (MS16-123)

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=876 We have encountered a Windows kernel crash in the nt!RtlValidRelativeSecurityDescriptor function invoked by nt!CmpValidateHiveSecurityDescriptors while loading corrupted registry hive files. An example of a crash log excerpt...

CVE-2016-7211

The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of...

CVE-2016-7185

The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of...

CVE-2016-3266

The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of...

CVE-2016-0079

The kernel in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an API call to access sensitive information in the registry, aka "Windows Kernel Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."...

CVE-2016-0079

The kernel in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an API call to access sensitive information in the registry, aka "Windows Kernel Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."...

CVE-2016-0075

The kernel in Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an API call to access sensitive information in the registry, aka "Windows Kernel Local Elevation of...

CVE-2016-0073

The kernel in Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an API call to access sensitive information in the registry, aka "Windows Kernel Local Elevation of...

CVE-2016-0073

The kernel in Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an API call to access sensitive information in the registry, aka "Windows Kernel Local Elevation of...