Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. The vulnerabilities are as follows: a) Two access of uninitialized point vulnerabilities that could result in remote could execution – (CVE-2017-16377, CVE-2017-16378) b) Six use after free vulnerabilities that could result in remote …
A security advisory published by Microsoft on Wednesday provides information on how users can protect themselves against recent attacks abusing the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) protocol. DDE is designed for data exchanges between Office and other Windows applications. Researchers warned recently that the way DDE fields are processed could be abused by hackers to create …
Bucharest – DefCamp 2017- Intrusion detection system (IDS) signatures can be used as an evasion technique to bypass the IDS itself, a security researcher claims. During a presentation at the DefCamp 2017 security conference in Bucharest, Romania, Kirill Shipulin, a security researcher atPositive Technologies, explained that available IDS signatures can be turned against the system …
Joomla has released security updates to address the following vulnerabilities: a) Medium Priority – Core – LDAP Information Disclosure (affecting Joomla! 1.5.0 through 3.8.1) b) Medium Priority – Core – Two-Factor Authentication Bypass (affecting Joomla! 3.2.0 through 3.8.1) c) Low Priority – Core – Information Disclosure (affecting Joomla! 3.7.0 through 3.8.1) Further information on these …
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Android OS, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution within the context of a privileged process. Details of these vulnerabilities are as follows: a) Multiple elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in Framework – (CVE-2017-0830, CVE-2017-0831) b) Multiple arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Media Framework – …
Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. Information on the products affected and how they can be fixed can be found on the Cisco Website via the following links: a) Wireless LAN Controller 802.11v Basic …
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in iCloud for Windows, iOS, iTunes for Windows, macOS High Sierra, Siera, El Capitan, Safari, tvOS and watchOS, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Details of these vulnerabilities are as follows: – Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling – (CVE-2017-7132) – …
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenOffice, which could allow for arbitrary code execution. OpenOffice is an open-source productivity software suite that contains a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation application, drawing application, formula editor, and a database management application. Details regarding these vulnerabilities are as below: a) A vulnerability in the OpenOffice Writer DOC file …
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the most severe of which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Details of these vulnerabilities are as below: Version 7.1.11 Bug #75241 (Null pointer dereference in zend_mm_alloc_small()). Bug #75236 (infinite loop when printing an error-message). Bug #75252 (Incorrect token formatting on two parse errors in one …
Oracle informed customers on Friday that its Identity Manager product is affected by a critical vulnerability that can be easily exploited by malicious actors. Part of the company’s Oracle Fusion Middleware offering, Identity Manager is an enterprise identity management system that automatically manages user access privileges across all of the organization’s resources. Oracle Identity Manager …