vulnerabilities

Overview Crash triaging can be a long and complicated process; by using proper tools and having an optimal approach, we can make this a bit easier and less time consuming. In this post we describe a triaging strategy and toolset based on two examples of vulnerability classes: Stack based buffer ove…

Back in April, I wrote a blog post about the new version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). The changes made for CVSSv3 addressed some of the challenges that existed in CVSSv2. For example, CVSSv3 analyzes the scope of a vulnerability and identifies the privileges an attacker needs t…

In late August we began to detect malicious Microsoft Word documents that contained VisualBasic (VB) macro code and the code appeared to be triggering when the document was opened. However, the documents did not contain any of the standard events used to launch VB macro code when a document is opene…

Today, we released the last Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2016. (As a reminder, Cisco discloses vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software on a predictable schedule—the fourth Wednesday of March and September in each calendar year).  Today’s edition o…

Cisco has been working to draw attention to the hidden security risks organizations face by not properly maintaining their aging infrastructure and patching vulnerable systems. Threat actors, including ransomware operators, are using vulnerable Internet infrastructure as a foothold to launch their c…

Vulnerabilities discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic. Blog post authored by Jaeson Schultz and Aleksandar Nikolic. One of the most fundamental tasks performed by many software programs involves the reading, writing, and general processing of files. In today’s highly networked environments, files a…

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Yves Younan. Pidgin is a universal chat client that is used on millions of systems worldwide. The Pidgin chat client enables you to communicate on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Talos has identified multiple vulnerabilities in the way Pidgin handles…

Talos has continued to observe ongoing attacks leveraging the use of JBoss exploits. Through our research efforts, we have identified an additional 600 or so compromised hosts which contain webshells due to adversaries compromising unpatched JBoss environments. In response to this, Talos has been wo…

This post is authored by Holger Unterbrink. Patch Tuesday for May 2016 has arrived where Microsoft releases their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release contains 16 bulletins addressing 33 vulnerabilities. Four…