Type1 Font Parsing 0-day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Threat Alert

Overview On March 23, local time, Microsoft released an out-of-band security advisory ADV200006 to address two critical 0-day vulnerabilities in Adobe Type Manager Library. A vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library improperly handles a crafted multi-master font, namely, the Adobe Type 1 PostScript format....

Linux System PPPD Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-8597) Threat Alert

Vulnerability Description On March 6, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) release a security bulletin to announce a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in the PPP daemon (pppd). This vulnerability affects nearly all Linux-based operating systems and network device firmware. This vulnerability is a buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-8597),...

V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-6418) Threat Alert

Vulnerability Description On February 25, security updates were released for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. The open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engines in V8 in Google Chrome before 80.0.3987.122 and Microsoft Edge browser before 80.0.361.62 are prone to a type confusion vulnerability (CVE-2020-6418), which allows attackers to access data in an...