Critical SOCKS5 Vulnerability in cURL Puts Enterprise Systems at Risk

October 11, 2023 at 12:06PM Patches have been released for a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the cURL data transfer project. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-38545, affects the SOCKS5 proxy handshake process in cURL, allowing remote exploitation in certain configurations. The bug can lead to heap buffer overflow, and affected versions are 7.69.0 to 8.3.0. … Read more

ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Ruggedcom Devices Affected by Nozomi Component Flaws

October 11, 2023 at 06:42AM Siemens and Schneider Electric have released their Patch Tuesday advisories for October 2023, addressing over 40 vulnerabilities in their products. Siemens has published a dozen advisories, including vulnerabilities in the Ruggedcom APE1808 platform and Nozomi Networks’ Guardian product. Nozomi has already patched these vulnerabilities. Schneider Electric has released advisories for … Read more

Microsoft Releases October 2023 Patches for 103 Flaws, Including 2 Active Exploits

October 11, 2023 at 03:12AM Microsoft has released its October 2023 Patch Tuesday updates, addressing 103 flaws, two of which are actively being exploited. Among the vulnerabilities are information disclosure in Microsoft WordPad and privilege escalation in Skype for Business. Microsoft also fixed flaws in Microsoft Message Queuing and Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol. Additionally, Microsoft … Read more

It’s 2023 and Microsoft WordPad can be exploited to hijack vulnerable systems

October 10, 2023 at 07:58PM Microsoft has released over 100 security updates, including fixes for two bugs that are already being actively exploited. One of the vulnerabilities, known as Rapid Reset, is an HTTP/2 weakness that has been used since August to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Microsoft WordPad also has an information … Read more

October 10, 2023 at 02:36PM – Microsoft Fixes Exploited Zero-Days in WordPad, Skype for Business

October 10, 2023 at 02:36PM Microsoft released a large batch of software and OS updates to address over 100 vulnerabilities across Windows systems. They warned that three of these vulnerabilities are already being exploited. The updates also targeted a zero-day vulnerability in HTTP/2 Rapid Reset that exposed the internet to DDoS attacks. Two other zero-day … Read more

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Haunted by Zero-Days, Wormable Bug

October 10, 2023 at 06:06PM Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday update addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively being attacked, affecting Microsoft WordPad and Skype for Business. A critical-rated bug in Message Queuing was also patched. The update included a total of 103 CVEs, with 13 critical-rated vulnerabilities and 20% of the fixes related to Microsoft … Read more