Zyxel addressed two critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-33009 and CVE-2023-33010, that affect several of its firewall and VPN products. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can can trigger the flaws to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and remote code execution on vulnerable devices. Below are the description for both issues provided by the vendor in…

Security researchers have found several vulnerabilities affecting many models of APC Smart-UPS uninterruptible power supplies that could be exploited to take over the devices. UPS devices are used across many industries to keep mission-critical devices running in case of power loss. “Two of these are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the code handling the…

Google Researcher Finds Critical Flaws in uTorrent Apps

Google researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered several critical vulnerabilities in the classic and web-based versions of BitTorrent’s uTorrent application. Patches have been released, but it appears that not all flaws have been fixed properly. Ormandy found that the uTorrent Classic and the uTorrent Web apps create an HTTP RPC server on ports 10000 and 19575, respectively….