RCE

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2018
RCE flaw in Exim MTA affects half of the email servers online

A critical RCE vulnerability in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA), tracked as CVE-2018-6789, affects most of the email servers online. A critical remote code vulnerability in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA), tracked as CVE-2018-6789, affects most of the email servers online. It has been estimated that as in March 2017, the total number of Internet’s email servers running Exim was over […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2018
Critical flaw in Pivotal’s Spring Data REST allows to hack any machine that runs an application built on its components

A critical flaw in Pivotal’s Spring Data REST allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on any machine that runs an application built using its components. Pivotal’s Spring Data REST project is affected by a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8046, that was discovered by security researchers at Semmle/lgtm. Pivotal’s Spring Framework a platform is widely used by […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2018
Talos experts shared details of a remote code execution flaw in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Security experts at Cisco Talos disclosed details of a remote code execution flaw that affects Adobe Acrobat Reader DC versions 2018.009.20050 and 2017.011.30070 and earlier. Security experts at Cisco Talos shared details of a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-4901, that affects Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability tricking the victim […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2018
Android Security Bulletin – Google fixed several Critical Code Execution vulnerabilities

Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 – Google has fixed tens of vulnerabilities for Android OS, including several critical remote code execution (RCE) flaws. The Android Security Bulletin for February 2018 addresses 26 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, most of which are elevation of privilege flaws. The 2018-02-01 security patch level fixed 7 vulnerabilities, 6 in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2018
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2018 addresses 14 critical flaws

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2018 addressed a total of 50 vulnerabilities in affecting Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, web browsers and other products of the tech giant. Fourteen issues are listed as critical, 34 are rated as important, and only two of them are rated as moderate in severity. The list of critical vulnerability includes […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2018
Lenovo patches critical flaws that affect Broadcom’s chipsets in dozens of Lenovo ThinkPad

According to a security advisory issued by Lenovo, two critical vulnerabilities in Broadcom chipsets affects at least 25 models of Lenovo ThinkPad. The affected models are ThinkPad 10,  ThinkPad L460, ThinkPad P50s, ThinkPad T460, ThinkPad T460p, ThinkPad T460s, ThinkPad T560, ThinkPad X260 and ThinkPad Yoga 260. One of the flaws was discovered in June by Google that publicly disclosed […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2018
Mozilla fixes a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Firefox

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox 58 that addresses a critical remote code vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Mozilla has released an update for the Firefox 58 browser  (aka Firefox Quantum) that addresses a critical flaw that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2018
January 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates fix a zero-day vulnerability in MS Office

Microsoft has released the January 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates, containing fixes for 56 vulnerabilities including the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-0802 in MS Office. Microsoft has released the January 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates, containing fixes for 56 vulnerabilities including a zero-day vulnerability in MS Office. 16 security updates are rated as critical, 38 as important, 1 […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2017
Experts discovered a flaw in GoAhead that affects hundreds of thousands IoT devices

Experts from Elttam discovered a flaw in GoAhead tiny web server that affects hundreds of thousands IoT devices, it could be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on affected devices. A vulnerability in the GoAhead tiny web server package, tracked as CVE-2017-17562, affects hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. The GoAhead solution is widely adopted by tech giants, including Comcast, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2017
Experts disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit

Security researchers at Trend Micro have publicly disclosed an unpatched zero-day flaw in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit after manufactured failed to patch it Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit after the manufacturer failed to patch this flaw over the past few months. […]