Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2019
Security experts discovered a vulnerability in the mIRC application that allows attackers to execute commands remotely. Security researchers Benjamin Chetioui and Baptiste Devigne from ProofOfCalc discovered a vulnerability in the mIRC application that could be exploited by attackers to execute commands remotely. mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat application that allows users to chat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2019
Expert discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the APT package manager used by several Linux distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu. The independent security consultant Max Justicz has discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the APT package manager used by several Linux distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-3462, affects package manager version 0.8.15 and later, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2019
Drupal released security updates for Drupal 7, 8.5 and 8.6 that address two “critical” security vulnerabilities that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. The first vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code. The flaw resides in the phar stream wrapper implemented in PHP and is related to the way […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2019
Google released its security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of vulnerabilities in the popular mobile OS. Google released the first batch of security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of flaws, the most severe of them is the CVE-2018-9583 issue. The CVE-2018-9583 flaw is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2019
The zero-day broker Zerodium offers $2 million for remote iOS jailbreaks and $1 million for chat app exploits. Zerodium announced it is going to pay up to $2 million for remote iOS jailbreaks that don’t need any user interaction, Previous offers of the company for this kind of exploits was $1.5 million. The company also doubled the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2018
The security researcher Bruno Keith from the Phoenhex group published a PoC code for a remote code execution flaw in Microsoft Edge browser (CVE-2018-8629). The vulnerability affects the JavaScript engine Chakra implemented in the Edge web browser, an attacker could exploit it to execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the same privileges as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2018
Security experts at Tencent’s Blade security team discovered the Magellan RCE flaw in SQLite database software that exposes billions of vulnerable apps. Security experts at Tencent’s Blade security team have discovered a critical vulnerability in SQLite database software that exposes billions of vulnerable apps to hackers. The vulnerability tracked as ‘Magellan‘ could allow remote attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2018
Security experts have found several vulnerabilities affecting Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products. They also warn that VMware’s vSphere Data Protection, which is based on Avamar, is also affected by the issues. Dell EMC released security updates for Dell EMC Avamar Client Manager in Dell EMC Avamar Server and Dell EMC Integrated Data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2018
TP-Link has addressed several vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw, in its TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router. TP-Link as fixed four security vulnerabilities in the TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router that were reported by experts at Cisco Talos. The vulnerabilities are two remote code execution (RCE) flaws(CVE-2018-3950, CVE-2018-3951), a denial-of-service issue (CVE-2018-3948), and a server information disclosure bug (CVE-2018-394). The DOS and server information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2018
Apache Struts Users have to update the Commons FileUpload library in Struts 2 that is affected by two vulnerabilities. Apache Struts developers have addressed two vulnerabilities in the Commons FileUpload library in Struts 2, the flaws can be exploited for remote code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. “Apache today released an advisory, urging users who run Apache Struts 2.3.x to […]
