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Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The security hole, tracked as CVE-2021-0146 and rated high severity, impacts Pentium, Celeron and Atom CPUs on mobile, desktop and embedded devices. Affected Atom IoT processors are present in many cars, apparently including ones made by Tesla. Intel announced the availability of fixes when it released its November 2021 Patch Tuesday updates. “Hardware allows activation…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

The existence of a critical RCE vulnerability (CVE-2021-3064) affecting certain versions of Palo Alto Networks (PAN) firewalls using the GlobalProtect Portal VPN has been revealed by a cybersecurity company that exploited it during red team engagements for the last 12 months. The vulnerability has been patched, but since there are still over 10,000 vulnerable internet-facing…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The most severe of the two bugs is CVE-2021-22955, a critical security hole that could lead to a DoS condition on appliances that have been configured as a VPN (Gateway) or AAA virtual server. The security flaw was identified in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC, formerly NetScaler ADC), and Gateway (formerly NetScaler Gateway). Tracked as…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The security holes, identified by a researcher who uses the online moniker “kimiya,” were discovered in the Tellus Lite V-Simulator and V-Server Lite products, which are used worldwide to remotely monitor and operate factories. Versions prior to 4.0.12.0 are affected. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday published an advisory to inform…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The companies have released patches and mitigations to address these vulnerabilities. Siemens Siemens has released 5 new advisories covering 33 vulnerabilities. The company informed customers that an update for its SINEC network management system patches 15 flaws, including ones that can be exploited for arbitrary code execution. While some of them have been assigned a…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Tracked as CVE-2021-37977, the most severe of these security holes could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on a target system. The flaw, described as a use-after-free bug in Garbage Collection, was reported last month by an anonymous researcher. Google says it paid a $10,000 bounty reward for the finding. Now rolling out to…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition, execute arbitrary commands as root, or elevate privileges. Two high-severity issues (CVE-2021-34779, CVE-2021-34780) were found in the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) implementation for Small Business 220 series smart switches, leading to the execution of arbitrary code and a…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

The vulnerability was found by security researcher Imre Rad, who disclosed his findings last week on the Full Disclosure mailing list. Rad found the vulnerability in Extensible Service Proxy (ESP), an open source, Nginx-based proxy that enables API management capabilities for JSON/REST or gRPC API services. Its features include authentication, monitoring and logging. ESP is…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The exploited vulnerabilities include CVE-2021-37975, a high-severity use-after-free bug in the V8 engine, and CVE-2021-37976, a medium-severity information leak issue in the core. Both were reported last week. “Google is aware the exploits for CVE-2021-37975 and CVE-2021-37976 exist in the wild,” the Internet search giant says. Now rolling out to Windows, Mac and Linux users…