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Monthly Archives: January 2019

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Visual Studio is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft ASP.NET is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office SharePoint is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office SharePoint is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft ASP.NET Core is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft ASP.NET Core is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Word is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Word is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Office SharePoint is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows JET Database Engine is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Visual Studio is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; fixes are available.

Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in NSS.

LinuxSecurity.com: Django could be made to expose spoofed information over the network.

ThreatList: WordPress Vulnerabilities Tripled in 2018
Biometrics in 2019: Increased Security or New Attack Vector?
The Promise and Peril of 5G
Intel Patches High-Severity Privilege-Escalation Bugs
Google Play Store spews malware onto 9 million ‘Droids
IoT weaknesses leave hot tub owners in deep water
Some Android apps are secretly sharing your data with Facebook
Automated phishing attack tool bypasses 2FA protection
Zerodium’s waving fatter payouts for zero-day bug hunters
How to share photos – without using Facebook
Politicians who block social media users are violating First Amendment
Being paid to quit Facebook
This old ransomware is using an unpleasant new trick to try and make you pay up
Ethereum Classic hackers steal over $1.1M with 51% attacks
CES – singularity and securing the car

What’s in store for automotive security once cars morph into mobile living rooms and working spaces? And how about transportation at large? The post CES – singularity and securing the car appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

LinuxSecurity.com: Updates for rh-dotnet21-dotnet and rh-dotnet22-dotnet are now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

Great, you’ve moved your website or app to HTTPS. How do you test it? Here’s a tool to make local TLS certs painless
Make a SAP decision: Apply these security fixes if you’re using German giant’s software

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Welcome to 2019: Your Exchange server can be pwned by an email (and other bugs need fixing)
Jeep hacking lawsuit shifts into gear for trial after US Supremes refuse to hit the brakes

LinuxSecurity.com: The avidemux package has been updated to version 2.7.1. Avidemux includes a bundled copy of the ffmpeg libraries, which have been updated from version 3.3.3 to version 3.3.9, fixing several security issues and other bugs.

LinuxSecurity.com: Double free in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2018-15518). Denial of Service on malformed BMP file in QBmpHandler (CVE-2018-19873). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils through 8.29 in chown-core.c. The functions chown and chgrp do not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX “-R -L” options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition (CVE-2017-18018).

LinuxSecurity.com: A leaky data conversion exposing a manager oracle (CVE-2018-16869). References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24080 – https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-12/msg00120.html

LinuxSecurity.com: It was found that when a retry task in ansible run with -vvv fails, it will log the raw return code, stdout and stderr from ssh which could have contained sensitive data (CVE-2018-16876). References:

LinuxSecurity.com: Jeffrey Altman reported that the backup tape controller (butc) process does accept incoming RPCs but does not require (or allow for) authentication of those RPCs, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to perform volume operations with administrator credentials (CVE-2018-16947).

LinuxSecurity.com: Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a Muscle Card in muscle_list_files in libopensc/card-muscle.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact (CVE-2018-16391).

LinuxSecurity.com: The __mkd_trim_line function in mkdio.c in libmarkdown.a in DISCOUNT 2.2.3a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted file (CVE-2018-11468). DISCOUNT through version 2.2.3a is vulnerable to a Heap-based

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that ruby-loofah, a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, performed insufficient sanitising of SVG elements.

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that malformed URLs could spoof the content of the default 404 page of Django, a Python web development framework. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in

Shipping Firms Speared with Targeted ‘Whaling’ Attacks
Microsoft Issues Multiple Critical Patches for Edge Browser

LinuxSecurity.com: The package elfutils before version 0.175-1 is vulnerable to denial of service.

Senator Wyden goes ballistic after US telcos caught selling people’s location data yet again
Malvertising Campaign Delivers Double Whammy of Ransomware and Info-Stealing

Risk Level: Very Low.

SMS phishing is alive and well… and simply believable
Adobe Patches Important Bugs in Connect and Digital Edition
Fill the gaps in your security knowledge at SANS London April 2019
Cops: German suspect, 20, ‘confessed’ to mass hack of local politicians
A photo will unlock many Android phones using facial recognition
How to spot a social media hoax
Hacker uses early warning system for fake message campaign
How Facebook’s privacy woes might change the rules of the road in 2019
Top 4 enterprise tech trends to watch in 2019
LA sues The Weather Channel over selling users’ location data
New Year’s resolutions: Get your passwords shipshape

In case there are some blank entries in your laundry list of New Year’s resolutions, we have a few tips for a bit of cybersecurity ‘soul searching’. Here’s the first batch, looking at how you can fix your good ol’ passwords. The post New Year’s resolutions: Get your passwords shipshape appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Linus Torvalds opts for the scream test: Linux kernel syscall tweaked to shut data-leak hole – anyone upset, yell now
FYI: Twitter’s API still spews enough metadata to reveal exactly where you lived, worked
Aussie Emergency Warning Network hacked by rank amateurs

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Virus, Worm.

Hackers Infiltrate Early Warning Network System to Send Spam