A Look Back at the 2018 Security Landscape

Do you ever question the value of the mounds of data we all collect? We make a point to stop, analyze and share, especially because we know you might not have the time. So, I bring you our annual look back at the more interesting security events and trends seen last year. The report, Caught in th...

Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion Vulnerability With Active Exploit

Adobe has issued an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in its ColdFusion service that is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2019-7816, exists in Adobe’s commercial rapid web application development platform, ColdFusion. The ColdFusion vulnerability is a file upload...

Quest NetVault Backup Server Code Execution / SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Quest NetVault Backup Server 11.4.5 Process Manager Service SQL Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ZDI-17-982 Date: 2-21-2019 Exploit Author: credit goes to rgod for finding the bug Version: Quest NetVault Backup Server 11.4.5 CVE : CVE-2017-17417 There is a decent...

Adobe Re-Patches Critical Acrobat Reader Flaw

A week after Adobe fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Acrobat Reader, the company issued another patch after a researcher dug up a way to bypass the original fix. This previous vulnerability CVE-2019-7089 was fixed in Adobe’s regularly scheduled security update last week. But Adobe sa...

Patch Tuesday, February 2019 Edition

Microsoft on Tuesday issued a bevy of patches to correct at least 70 distinct security vulnerabilities in Windows and software designed to interact with various flavors of the operating system. This month's patch batch tackles some notable threats to enterprises -- including multiple flaws that...

Heap overflow

Several heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior have been identified, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...

Memory corruption

A memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...

CVE-2019-6539

Several heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior have been identified, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...

CVE-2019-6541

A memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...

CVE-2019-6541

A memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...

Stack overflow

Multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior may be exploited when parsing strings within project files. The process does not properly validate the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An...

CVE-2019-6541

A memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...

CVE-2019-6539

Several heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in WECON LeviStudioU version 1.8.56 and prior have been identified, which may allow arbitrary code execution. Mat Powell, Ziad Badawi, and Natnael Samson working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, reported these vulnerabilities to NCCIC...

CVE-2019-6539

CVE-2019-6539 is a set of heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Wecon LeviStudioU (versions up to 1.8.56). The issues arise when parsing various project/file data (e.g., HSC, UMP, Desc, TextContent, LaIndexID) where user-supplied data is copied into fixed-length heap buffers, enabling arb...

CVE-2019-6541

CVE-2019-6541 affects Wecon LeviStudioU (fontlib) with memory corruption in FontLib.dll, leading to arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability exists in LeviStudioU prior to version 1.8.69 and can be triggered by processing crafted input; ZDI notes memory corruption in FontLib.dll allowing remot...

CVE-2019-6537

The CVE-2019-6537 entry covers multiple stack-based buffer overflow flaws in WECON LeviStudioU (and related tools) due to improper validation of user-supplied data before copying to fixed-length stack buffers, enabling potential code execution in the process context. Connected advisories (ZDI-19-...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Browser Bug Under Active Attack

It’s a busy Patch Tuesday for Microsoft with a total of 20 critical vulnerabilities addressed in this February’s monthly security bulletin. Four bugs, rated important, were previously publicly known. Worse, Microsoft said a zero-day bug tied to its Internet Explorer browser, also rated important,...

Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws

Adobe issued patches for 43 critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader – including a fix for a zero-day flaw that researchers at 0patch temporarily fixed on Monday. That bug could enable bad actors to steal victims’ hashed password values. Overall, Adobe patched 75 important and critical...

Critical zero-day vulnerabilities hit Lifesize video conferencing products

By Waqas The IT security researchers at TrustWave have discovered critical zero-day vulnerabilities in video conferencing products developed by Lifesize which, if exploited by attackers can cause a great deal of damage. Lifesize is an audio and video telecommunication firm based in the United...

Temporary Patch Released For Adobe Reader Zero-Day

A temporary patch has been released to address a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader that could enable bad actors to steal victims’ hashed password values, known as “NTLM hashes.” 0patch on Monday released a micropatch for the flaw, found in Adobe Reader DC. The vulnerability, which has no...