vulnerability

April 11, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Computerinsel PhotoLine PSD Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos Overview Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing a vulnerability within Computerinsel PhotoLine’s PSD-parsing functionality. Photoline is an image processing tool used to modify and edit images, as well as other graphic-related material. This product has a lar…

April 4, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Natus NeuroWorks Multiple Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities discovered by Cory Duplantis from Talos Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Natus NeuroWorks software. This software is used in the Natus Xltek EEG medical products from Natus Medical Inc. The vulnerable devices contain an ethernet connection for data acquisitio…

March 1, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Simple DirectMedia Layer’s SDL2_Image

Overview Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities identified in Simple DirectMedia Layer’s SDL2_Image library that could allow code execution. Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graph…

March 1, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Dovecot out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability

Overview Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing a single out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Dovecot IMAP server. Dovecot is a popular internet message access protocol, or IMAP, server with performance and security-oriented design. It is a popular choice for robust email servers. In accordance with ou…

February 5, 2018

SECURITY

Understanding the Attack Vectors of CVE-2018-0101 – Cisco ASA Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerabilit …

Cisco is committed to responsible coordinated disclosure about vulnerabilities, and maintains a very open relationship with the security research community. On January 29, 2018, the Cisco PSIRT learned about public knowledge of a remote code execution and denial of service vulnerability affecting th…

January 10, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Ruby Rails Gem XSS Vulnerabilities

Talos has discovered two XSS vulnerabilities in Ruby Rails Gems. Rails is a Ruby framework designed to create web services or web pages. Ruby Gems is a package manager for distributing software packages as ‘gems’. The two XSS vulnerabilities were discovered in two different gem packages:…

January 9, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in the CPP and Parity Ethereum Client

Talos is disclosing the presence of multiple vulnerabilities in the CPP and the Parity Ethereum clients. TALOS-2017-0503 / CVE-2017-14457 describes a denial of service vulnerability and potential memory leak in libevm. The function is not currently enabled in the default build. This vulnerability on…

October 26, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Apache OpenOffice Vulnerabilities

Today, Talos is releasing details of three new vulnerabilities discovered within Apache OpenOffice application. The first vulnerability, TALOS-2017-0295 within OpenOffice Writer, the second TALOS-2017-0300 in the Draw application, and the third TALOS-2017-0301 discovered in the Writer application. A…

September 13, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: LibOFX Tag Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability was discovered by Cory Duplantis of Talos Update 9/20/2017: A patch is now available to fix this issue. Overview LibOFX is an open source implementation of OFX (Open Financial Exchange) an open format used by financial institutions to share financial data with clients. As an imple…