RCE

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2019
Critical flaws affect Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center

Atlassian released security updates for Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center to address a critical flaw that can lead to information disclosure Atlassian released security updates to address critical vulnerabilities in Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center. One of the flaw can lead to information disclosure, while another critical […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2019
CVE-2019-15846 Exim mail server flaw allows Remote Code Execution

A security flaw in Exim mail servers could be exploited by local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The Exim development team has addressed a vulnerability in Exim mail server, tracked as CVE-2019-15846, that could be exploited by local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2019
Critical zero-days discovered in VxWorks RTOS, billions of devices at risk

Security experts at Armis have discovered a dozen zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the VxWorks real-time operating systems (RTOS) for embedded devices. Researchers at Armis Labs have discovered a dozen zero-day flaws in the VxWorks real-time operating systems (RTOS) for embedded devices. The collection of vulnerabilities was dubbed URGENT/11, it includes 11 flaws, 6 of which are […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2019
Android devices could be hacked by playing a video due to CVE-2019-2107 flaw

Watch out! Playing a video on Android devices could be a dangerous operation due to a critical CVE-2019-2107 RCE flaw in Android OS between version 7.0 and 9.0. Playing a specially-crafted video on devices with the Android’s native video player application could allow attackers to compromise them due to a dangerous critical remote code execution […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2019
A flaw in LibreOffice could allow the hack of your PC

LibreOffice users have to know that their unpatched computers could be hacked by simply opening a specially crafted document. Bad news for LibreOffice users, the popular free and open-source office suite is affected by an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability Recently, LibreOffice released the latest version 6.2.5 that addresses two severe flaws tracked as CVE-2019-9848 and CVE-2019-9849. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2019
Experts found critical RCE in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Product

Security experts have discovered a critical remote code execution flaw in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect product, the flaw was quickly addressed. Last week, researchers Orange Tsai and Meh Chang published technical details of a critical remote code execution vulnerability that affects Palo Alto Networks’s GlobalProtect. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1579, affects the GlobalProtect portal and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2019
Microsoft released Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2019

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, 14 rated as Critical, 62 as Important, and only 1 as Moderate in severity. Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 that address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, 14 rated as Critical, 62 as Important, and only 1 as Moderate in severity. Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2019
Google addressed three critical code execution flaws in Android Media Framework

Google released the July 2019 security patches for the Android OS that address a total of 33 vulnerabilities, including 9 issues rated as Critical. The most severe flaw addressed by Google is a critical security issue (CVE-2019-2106) affecting the Media framework that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2019
Flaws allow hacking a system playing untrusted videos on VLC Player

Two vulnerabilities in VLC media player could allow remote attackers to take full control over a computer system while playing untrusted videos. An attacker could remotely take full control over a computer system while playing untrusted videos with any version of VLC media player software prior to 3.0.7. The hack is possible due to two […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2019
Tor Browser 8.5.2 fixes Firefox zero-day. Update it now!

Developers at the Tor Project have released the Tor Browser 8.5.2 to address the recently fixed CVE-2019-11707 zero-day flaw in Mozilla Firefox. Yesterday I reported the news of a critical zero-day in Firefox that was addressed by Mozilla with a new release. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11707, is a type confusion flaw in Array.pop. Mozilla has addressed […]