On Wikileaks Apple Hacking Tool Dump, LastPass, Android Security and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest Wikileaks dump of Apple hacking tools, the LastPass vulnerabilities, a new Android security report, and the “Encryption Workarounds” paper. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch242017.mp3 Music by Chris Consalves...

Paper Spells Out Tech, Legal Options for Encryption Workarounds

FBI Director James Comey’s dogged attachment to the argument that strong encryption hinders criminal investigations by law enforcement is heading into its third year with little signs of abatement. That insistence comes despite three years of arguments to the contrary from security experts, who...

KLA10964 Obsolete Adobe Flash Player for Windows

Microsoft released update to address vulnerabilities in Flash Player for Internet Explorer. For details look at KLA10960. Technical details To mitigate this vulnerability you can implement some of workarounds listed in original Microsoft advisory: disable Adobe Flash Player, prevent Adobe FP from...

Cisco Meeting Server API Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in an internal API of the Cisco Meeting Server CMS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on the affected appliance. The vulnerability is due to invalid data being received on a specific port. An attacker could exploit this...

Cisco ASA Clientless SSL VPN CIFS Heap Overflow Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Common Internet Filesystem CIFS code in the Clientless SSL VPN functionality of Cisco ASA Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a heap overflow. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user supplied input. An attacker could exploit this...

CVE-2016-9225

A vulnerability in the data plane IP fragment handler of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA CX Context-Aware Security module could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CX module to be unable to process further traffic, resulting in a denial of service DoS condition. The...

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers SNMP High CPU Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP functions of Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running Cisco IOS XE Software Release 3.13.6S, 3.16.2S, or 3.17.1S could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU usage on an affected device, resulting in a...

Cisco WebEx Meetings Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco WebEx Meetings Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to view the fully qualified domain name of the Cisco WebEx administration server. The vulnerability is due to insufficient masking of sensitive data in the HTTP response. An attacker could exploit this...

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Site Redirection Vulnerability

A vulnerability in a URL parameter of Cisco WebEx could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform site redirection. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by including a remote site URL in the affected parameter of the...

CVE-2016-10030

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KLA10919 Obsolete Adobe Flash Player for Windows

Microsoft released update to address vulnerabilities in Flash Player for Internet Explorer. For details look at KLA10911. Technical details To mitigate this vulnerability you can implement some of workarounds listed in original Microsoft advisory: disable Adobe Flash Player, prevent Adobe FP from...

Cisco IOS Frame Forwarding Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco IOS on Catalysts Switches and Nexus 9300 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Layer 2 network storm. The vulnerability occurs because the software forwards Layer 2 frames that should be consumed by the first hop. An attacker could...

Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software Zone-Based Firewall Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Zone-Based Firewall feature of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to pass traffic that should otherwise have been dropped based on the configuration. The vulnerability is due to a logic flaw in a corner case scenario. An...

Cisco ONS 15454 Series Multiservice Provisioning Platforms TCP Port Management Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in TCP port management in Cisco ONS 15454 Series Multiservice Provisioning Platforms could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the controller card to unexpectedly reload. The vulnerability is due to a specific TCP port listening on the local management port when it...

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Unified Reporting Upload Tool Directory Traversal Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Cisco Unified Reporting upload tool accessed via the Cisco Unified Communications Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to modify arbitrary files on the file system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient client-side validation checks. An attacker could...

Cisco Email Security Appliance Content Filter Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the content filtering functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass user filters that are configured for an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper filtering of certain TAR...

Cisco Email Security Appliance MIME Header Processing Filter Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the email filtering functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass Advanced Malware Protection AMP filters that are configured for an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper err...

CID Mismatch in VMware on Restore with Backup and Replication V9 installed on Server 2008R2

Challenge Upon restore using Veeam Backup and Replication V9X you receive a CID mismatch error when you are on vSphere 5.5 Update 3b Cause This is a known issue with restoring with the option to use VM tags is enabled in vSphere 5.5 Update 3b Solution Known workarounds: 1. Upgrade Backup and...

Cisco ASR 900 Series Aggregation Services Routers Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Transaction Language 1 TL1 code of Cisco ASR 900 Series routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of, or remotely execute code on, the affected system. The vulnerability exists because the affected software performs incomplete bounds checks o...

Cisco TelePresence Endpoints Local Command Injection Vulnerability

Cisco TelePresence endpoints running either CE or TC software contain a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute a local shell command injection. The vulnerability is due to incomplete input sanitization of some commands. An attacker could exploit this...