Adobe Patches Critical Memory Vulnerabilities in Flash Player, AIR
Adobe has repaired a number of critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player that could lead to system crashes or remote attackers controlling computers running compromised software.
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Android Smishing Vulnerability Found in Android Open Source Project Firmware
A vulnerability discovered in the Android Open Source Project enables malicious applications to send SMS messages without user permission across all recent Android platforms.While no exploits are active in the wild, one could be built that could be at the center of various SMS phishing, or smishing, attacks, said Xuxian Jiang, associate professor in the North Carolina State University computer science department.
VUPEN Researchers Say They Have Zero-Day Windows 8 Exploit
Controversial bug hunters and exploit sellers VUPEN claimed to have cracked the low-level security enhancements featured in Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system.
Cisco is warning its customers about a remote command execution vulnerability in its Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager.The product manages Ethernet and storage networks and troubleshoots for performance issues on Cisco products running NX-OS software. Versions prior to 6.1.1 are vulnerable to remote exploits on the underlying system that hosts the application, Cisco said.
Older versions of Broadcom firmware found in a number of mobile devices from major vendors including the Apple iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Droid Incredible are vulnerable to a denial of service attack.Researchers Andres Blanco and Matias Eissler of Core Security Technologies reported the vulnerability in August, and this week published details on proof-of-concept exploit code.
Patches released this week by database and mobile management vendor Sybase did not completely repair serious privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerabilities in versions 15.0.3 and later of its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) product.Researchers at Application Security Inc., which specializes in database security, reported a dozen vulnerabilities to the SAP company in July. AppSec also sent along proof-of-concept exploit code with details of the vulnerabilities.
Adobe announced today it has repaired a host of critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities and an array out of bounds vulnerability in Shockwave Player and urges users to update to the latest version of the software, version 11.6.8.638.
Software security, code quality and the iea of building security into applications from the design phase forward have become touchstones for any conversation about how to improve the security of the Web and the general IT infrastructure. But it wasn’t always thus. In fact, it wasn’t too many years ago that the idea of software security took a back seat to the more traditional security disciplines. That’s changed of late, and one of the groups that’s been in the middle of the transformation is SAFECode, the industry organization comprising Microsoft, Adobe, SAP, EMC and others, that’s designed to advance software security methods and practices.
A security researcher has submitted to Oracle a patch he said took him 30 minutes to produce that would repair a zero-day vulnerability currently exposed in Java SE. He hopes his actions will spur Oracle to issue an out-of-band patch for the sandbox-escape vulnerability, rather than wait for the February 2013 Critical Patch Update as Oracle earlier said it would.
Spammers have recently taken advantage of an open-redirect vulnerability to phish users and trick them into clicking through links that appear to be coming from government (.gov) URLs.
