Google is rolling out a critical patch for their Chrome browser in order to fix four serious vulnerabilities including one which enables arbitrary code execution on the system simply by visiting a specially crafted webpage – with no other user interaction required. Google is not releasing details of the vulnerabilities, other than to say they […]
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Webmin, the web-based interface for system administration for Unix and Linux, had a remote code execution vulnerability deliberately introduced into its source code in April 2018. It was only publicised in August 2019 when a zero day exploit was published at DefCon 27. Webmin has been installed over a million times worldwide. The malicious code
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At the recent Usenix Security Syposium, researchers presented a paper detailing how the Bluetooth Classic key negotiation protocol is flawed and can be easily compromised during device pairing. Bluetooth BR/EDR (also known as Bluetooth Classic) is found in more than a billion Bluetooth enabled devices ranging from keyboards and mice, to wireless modems, phones and
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Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 is blocking Windows updates since August 2019. Back in April 2019 we reported that Microsoft planned to amend the way it digitally signed Windows updates in order to protect against supply chain attacks and ensure only valid, unmodified Microsoft issued patches are installed. This change
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At Black Hat 2019 Tencent reveals QualPwn vulnerability which could allow over the air RCE on Android devices using Qualcomm chips The vulnerabilities, known as QualPwn, can be chained together to first compromise the WiFi controller and then overwrite a portion of the Android Kernel. CVE-2019-10539: is a buffer-overflow vulnerability in Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi controller firmware.
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A potential remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the popular GPL-licensed FTP server ProFTPD ProFTPD is running on over a million servers exposed to the internet. It is included in several Linux distros including Debian, Suse and Ubuntu. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2019-12815 lives in the mod_copy module. The flaw allows an unauthenticated user to
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Atlassian has released new versions of Jira Server and Jira Data Centre that address a critical vulnerability which has lived in the code for almost 8 years. The vulnerability, CVE-2019-11581 is a server-side template injection vulnerability. According to the security advisory from Atlassian: There was a server-side template injection vulnerability in Jira Server and Data Center,
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Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday updates resolve 77 vulnerabilities in Windows software, including two zero-day vulnerabilities which are being actively exploited and remote code execution vulnerabilities in DHCP Server and MS SQL Server. DHCP Server RCE vulnerability If you have your Microsoft DHCP server configured with a failover server, an attacker can send a specially crafted
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The UK National Cyber Security Centre published an advisory this week regarding the ongoing and increasing risk of DNS hijacking. DNS is the system that converts domain names to IP addresses allowing the world wide web to function. Its architecture is designed to be distributed in order to be resilient and stable. This distributed and
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The June Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft included a change to the Bluetooth LE stack which could prevent some of your Bluetooth devices from connecting – and you’ll be glad! When vendors publish specifications, such as the one for Bluetooth LE, it is common practice to include some example code to give adopters an idea
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