Impacting the OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3) feature of NX-OS, the first of these issues is tracked as CVE-2022-20823 and could be exploited remotely, without authentication, to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The flaw exists due to incomplete input validation of specific OSPFv3 packets, allowing an attacker to send a malicious OSPFv3 link-state advertisement (LSA) to…

Tracked as CVE-2022-2587 (CVSS score of 9.8) and described as an out-of-bounds write, the vulnerability was addressed with the release of a patch in June. The issue was identified in the CRAS (ChromiumOS Audio Server) component, and could be triggered using malformed metadata associated with songs. CRAS resides between the operating system and ALSA (Advanced…

Siemens has released 12 advisories covering 35 vulnerabilities. Based on CVSS scores, the most important advisory covers 11 flaws affecting the web server of SICAM P850 and P855 devices. One of these bugs is critical and it allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. The five high-severity vulnerabilities…

According to the company, in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) versions prior to 14.7.7, 14.8.5, and 14.9.2, a hardcoded password was set when the account was registered using an OmniAuth provider. The critical-severity bug, which is tracked as CVE-2022-1162 (CVSS score of 9.1), could allow attackers to take over accounts. In addition…

The critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0971, has been described as a use-after-free issue affecting the Blink Layout component. Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero has been credited for reporting the flaw. Google doesn’t often assign a “critical severity” rating to Chrome vulnerabilities. In fact, over the past year, only four other Chrome updates fixed a…

An advisory released earlier this month by Japan’s JPCERT/CC revealed that the product is affected by five use-after-free and out-of-bounds vulnerabilities, all with a CVSS score of 7.8. CX-Programmer, which is part of Omron’s CX-One automation software suite, is designed for programming and debugging Omron programmable logic controllers (PLCs). According to the U.S. Cybersecurity and…

Microsoft today issued security updates for 71 software vulnerabilities, three of which were critical and one that has a known proof-of-concept available in the public domain. Among the most notable flaws fixed today by Microsoft are: CVE-2022-23277 Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This is a critical bug that could allow an attacker who…