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Curl project squashes high-severity bug in omnipresent libcurl library (CVE-2023-38545)

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Curl project squashes high-severity bug in omnipresent libcurl library (CVE-2023-38545) 11/10/2023 at 13:31 By Zeljka Zorz Curl v8.4.0 is out, and fixes – among other things – a high-severity SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545). Appropriate patches for some older curl versions have been released, too. Preparation for the security updates A little over a […]

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Microsoft plugs exploited WordPad, Skype for Business zero-days (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763)

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Microsoft plugs exploited WordPad, Skype for Business zero-days (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763) 10/10/2023 at 22:01 By Zeljka Zorz On this October 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released 103 patches and has fixed three actively exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763, CVE-2023-44487). The exploited zero-days (CVE-2023-36563, CVE-2023-41763, CVE-2023-44487) CVE-2023-36563, discovered by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, is a WordPad vulnerability that could

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Be prepared to patch high-severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl

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Be prepared to patch high-severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl 10/10/2023 at 12:20 By Zeljka Zorz Details about two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-38545, CVE-2023-38546) in curl, a foundational and widely used open-source software for data transfer via URLs, are to be released on Wednesday, October 11. Daniel Stenberg, the original author and lead developer, has said that

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“Looney Tunables” bug allows root access on Linux distros (CVE-2023-4911)

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“Looney Tunables” bug allows root access on Linux distros (CVE-2023-4911) 05/10/2023 at 16:17 By Zeljka Zorz A vulnerability (CVE-2023-4911) in the GNU C Library (aka “glibc”) can be exploited by attackers to gain root privileges on many popular Linux distributions, according to Qualys researchers. About CVE-2023-4911 Dubbed “Looney Tunables”, CVE-2023-4911 is a buffer overflow vulnerability

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Apple patches another iOS zero-day under attack (CVE-2023-42824)

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Apple patches another iOS zero-day under attack (CVE-2023-42824) 05/10/2023 at 13:47 By Helga Labus Apple has released a security update for iOS and iPadOS to fix another zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-42824) exploited in the wild. About the vulnerability (CVE-2023-42824) CVE-2023-42824 is a kernel vulnerability that could allow a local threat actor to elevate its privileges on

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Critical Atlassian Confluence zero-day exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-22515)

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Critical Atlassian Confluence zero-day exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-22515) 05/10/2023 at 13:02 By Helga Labus Atlassian has fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-22515) in Confluence Data Center and Server that is being exploited in the wild. “Atlassian has been made aware of an issue reported by a handful of customers where external attackers may have exploited

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Qualcomm patches 3 actively exploited zero-days

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Qualcomm patches 3 actively exploited zero-days 04/10/2023 at 16:46 By Helga Labus Qualcomm has fixed three actively exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-33106, CVE-2023-33107, CVE-2023-33063) in its Adreno GPU and Compute DSP drivers. Vulnerabilities exploited in Qualcomm GPU and DSP drivers The US-based semiconductor company has been notified by Google Threat Analysis Group and Google Project Zero that

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Zero-day in Arm GPU drivers exploited in targeted attacks (CVE-2023-4211)

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Zero-day in Arm GPU drivers exploited in targeted attacks (CVE-2023-4211) 03/10/2023 at 14:16 By Zeljka Zorz A vulnerability (CVE-2023-4211) in the kernel drivers for several Mali GPUs “may be under limited, targeted exploitation,” British semiconductor manufacturer Arm has confirmed on Monday, when it released drivers updated with patches. Arm’s Mali GPUs are used on a

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Critical zero-days in Exim revealed, only 3 have been fixed

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Critical zero-days in Exim revealed, only 3 have been fixed 02/10/2023 at 17:03 By Zeljka Zorz Six zero-days in Exim, the most widely used mail transfer agent (MTA), have been revealed by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) last Wednesday. Due to what seems to be insufficient information and poor communication, fixes for only three

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Critical vulnerability in WS_FTP Server exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-40044)

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Critical vulnerability in WS_FTP Server exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-40044) 02/10/2023 at 14:17 By Helga Labus Progress Software, the company behind the recently hacked MOVEit file-sharing tool, has recently fixed two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-40044, CVE-2023-42657) in WS_FTP Server, another popular secure file transfer solution. Proof-of-concept code for CVE-2023-40044 has been available since Friday, and Rapid7 researchers

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Yet another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild! (CVE-2023-5217)

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Yet another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild! (CVE-2023-5217) 28/09/2023 at 14:47 By Helga Labus Google has fixed another critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-5217) in Chrome that is being exploited in the wild. About CVE-2023-5217 The vulnerability is caused by a heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx – a video codec library from Google

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GitLab fixes critical vulnerability, patch now! (CVE-2023-5009)

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GitLab fixes critical vulnerability, patch now! (CVE-2023-5009) 22/09/2023 at 13:31 By Helga Labus GitLab has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-5009) in the Enterprise Edition (EE) and Community Edition (CE) of its widely used DevOps platform. They flaw may allow a threat actor to abuse scan execution policies to run pipelines as another user. About the

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Apple fixes 3 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited to compromise iPhones

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Apple fixes 3 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited to compromise iPhones 22/09/2023 at 13:19 By Zeljka Zorz Apple has released updates for iOS and iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari to fix three zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-41992, CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41993) exploited “against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.” Bill Marczak of The Citizen Lab at The University of Toronto’s Munk

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Critical Trend Micro vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-41179)

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Critical Trend Micro vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-41179) 21/09/2023 at 11:46 By Zeljka Zorz Trend Micro has fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-41179) in several of its endpoint security products for enterprises that has been spotted being exploited in the wild. About CVE-2023-41179 The nature of the flaw hasn’t been revealed, but we know

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Kubernetes vulnerabilities allows RCE on Windows endpoints (CVE-2023-3676)

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Kubernetes vulnerabilities allows RCE on Windows endpoints (CVE-2023-3676) 18/09/2023 at 14:32 By Helga Labus Three high-severity Kubernetes vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-3676, CVE-2023-3893, CVE-2023-3955) could allow attackers to execute code remotely and gain control over all Windows nodes in the Kubernetes cluster. About the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-3676, discovered by Akamai researcher Tomer Peled, is a command injection vulnerability that

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Microsoft, Adobe fix zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-26369, CVE-2023-36761, CVE-2023-36802)

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Microsoft, Adobe fix zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-26369, CVE-2023-36761, CVE-2023-36802) 12/09/2023 at 22:01 By Zeljka Zorz September 2023 Patch Tuesday is here, with fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader (CVE-2023-26369), Microsoft Word (CVE-2023-36761), and Microsoft Streaming Service Proxy (CVE-2023-36802). Microsoft vulnerabilities of note Microsoft has delivered fixes for 61 CVE-numbered flaws:

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Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild, patch now! (CVE-2023-4863)

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Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild, patch now! (CVE-2023-4863) 12/09/2023 at 12:47 By Helga Labus Google has rolled out a security update for a critical Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863) exploited in the wild. About the vulnerability (CVE-2023-4863) CVE-2023-4863 is a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the component that handles WebP, a raster graphics file

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VMware fixes critical vulnerability in Aria Operations for Networks (CVE-2023-34039)

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VMware fixes critical vulnerability in Aria Operations for Networks (CVE-2023-34039) 30/08/2023 at 14:01 By Helga Labus VMware has patched one critical (CVE-2023-34039) and one high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-20890) in Aria Operations for Networks, its popular enterprise network monitoring tool. About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-34039, CVE-2023-20890) CVE-2023-34039 is a network bypass vulnerability arising as a result of a

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PoC for no-auth RCE on Juniper firewalls released

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PoC for no-auth RCE on Juniper firewalls released 28/08/2023 at 13:32 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have released additional details about the recently patched four vulnerabilities affecting Juniper Networks’ SRX firewalls and EX switches that could allow remote code execution (RCE), as well as a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. Junos OS vulnerabilities and fixes Earlier this month,

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Attackers exploited WinRAR zero-day for months to steal money from brokers (CVE-2023-38831)

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Attackers exploited WinRAR zero-day for months to steal money from brokers (CVE-2023-38831) 23/08/2023 at 18:46 By Zeljka Zorz Financially-motivated attackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR (CVE-2023-38831) to trick traders into installing malware that would allow them to steal money from broker accounts. “This vulnerability has been exploited since April 2023,” says Group-IB malware

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