Vulnerability Overview Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe System's PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. It is widely used as a raster image processor (RIP) for raster computer printers. Currently, it has been ported from Linux to other operating systems, including...
Year: 2019
IP Reputation Report-09012019
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Botnet Trend Report-12
4.3 XMRig: Cryptomining For Fun and Profit Cryptomining by botnets has gained popularity in the past two years. Unlike other common malicious activities like DDoS, ransomware attacks, and confidential information theft, cryptomining has some unique characteristics: 1. Predictable earnings. Cryptominers are good at hiding their presence by controlling their CPU...
TortoiseSVN Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-14422) Threat Alert
Overview On August 13, local time, a researcher from a vulnerability laboratory (vxrl team) disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-14422) in TortoiseSVN. The URI handler of TortoiseSVN (Tsvncmd:) allows a customized diff operation on Excel workbooks. This vulnerability could be used to open remote workbooks without protection from macro...
Ghostscript -dSAFER Multiple Sandbox Bypass Vulnerabilities Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On August 28, 2019, Artifex submitted "Bug 701446: Avoid divide by zero in shading" on the master branch of Ghostscript and announced remediation of four -dSAFER sandbox bypass vulnerabilities. -dSAFER is a security sandbox used by Ghostscript for prevention of insecure PostScript operations. (more…)
Ghostscript -dSAFER Sandbox Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10216) Threat Alert
Overview Recently, Ghostscript announced the discovery of the -dSAFER sandbox bypass vulnerability (CVE-2019-10216). The .buildfont1 procedure in Ghostscript does not properly restrict privileged calls, which allows attackers to escalate privileges and access files beyond the restricted domain. (more…)
