March 2021 Update Summary

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To my readers; I hope you and your families are safe and well during these on-going challenging times. Sorry once again for the delay in publishing this post. However, it does contain information made available after the 9th March and should still prove useful.

On Tuesday, 9th March saw the usual release of security updates by both Adobe and Microsoft. Adobe’s updates addressing 17 and Microsoft’s updates addressing 89 vulnerabilities more formally known as CVEs (defined).

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Before we begin with Adobe’s updates, Microsoft’s updates for Windows 10 have caused and are continuing to cause issues when printing. Revised updates to resolve these issues partially fixed them and yet more updates to resolve the remaining issues are themselves sometimes failing to install.

Microsoft have since released revised updates which have resolved the installation issues while printing as expected. You should now be able to update your systems (Windows 10 and Windows 8.1) as normal.

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Adobe released 2 sets of updates this month to resolve vulnerabilities in the following products:

Adobe Animate: Addresses 7x Priority 3 vulnerabilities (2x Critical Severity and 5x Important Severity)

Adobe ColdFusion: Addresses 1x Priority 3 vulnerability (1x Critical Severity)

Adobe Connect: Addresses 4x Priority 3 vulnerabilities (1x Critical Severity and 3x Important Severity)

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop: Addresses 3x Priority 3 vulnerabilities (3x Critical Severity)

Adobe Framemaker: Addresses 1x Priority 3 vulnerability (1x Critical Severity)

Adobe Photoshop: Addresses 2x Priority 3 vulnerabilities (2x Critical Severity)

As always, if you use any of the above Adobe products, please make certain to install the relevant updates as soon as possible. This is especially important in the case of the critical severity updates.

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A further useful source of update related information is the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/
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For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritise the order of installation below:

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Important

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If you use Microsoft Exchange (the on-premises, non-cloud Office 365 version); please follow the steps below first to make sure your Exchange server is secure:

It is recommended to first check if a vulnerable system has been compromised before installing the necessary security updates.

You can inventory your systems to check which systems require patching using the guidance from the first Microsoft reference below. You can then use Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool to temporarily mitigate some of the known security issues and scan for and remove any traces of compromise placed there by threat actors. More thorough investigation of system logs may be necessary if any evidence of compromise is found.  Finally; the vulnerable systems can be patched to prevent further exploitation.

Further defence in depth measures are recommended to further harden servers from attacks resulting in web shells being placed upon them.

Microsoft stated recently that 92% of Exchange servers globally were updated against these vulnerabilities but more work still needs to be done to bring the figure as high as possible:
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Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-26855

Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-26412

Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-26857

Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-27065

Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-26858

Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-26897

Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-26867

Microsoft Azure Sphere Unsigned Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-27080

Git for Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-21300

OpenType Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-26876

Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability: CVE-2021-26411

Microsoft Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability: CVE-2021-27077

HEVC Video Extensions Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-24089, CVE-2021-26902 and CVE-2021-27061

Microsoft Azure Sphere Unsigned Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2021-27074

A revised fix was made available for PsExec in March 2021 following an initial update in February 2021.

As per standard best practice, I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues.

I have also provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications below (I will continue to add to this list).

To all of my readers; I hope you and your families continue to stay well during these challenging times. Thank you.

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Mozilla Firefox
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In the third week of March Mozilla made available Firefox 87 and Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 78.9 to resolve the following vulnerabilities:

Firefox 87: Resolves 2x High severity CVEs, 4x Moderate severity and 2x Low severity

Firefox 78.9: Resolves 2x High Severity CVEs and 1x set of security issues (rated High) and 2x Moderate severity CVEs

Firefox 87 also introduces the following new features (my thanks to ghacks.net for this):

• Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock, a feature to reduce website breakage when using private browsing or strict enhanced tracking protection.
• The default HTTP Referrer policy will trim the path so that only the domain name is submitted for cross-origin requests.

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Google Chrome
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Google has released 4 Chrome updates in March version 89.0.4389.72 , version 89.0.4389.90 and version 89.0.4389.114 for Linux, Mac and Windows to resolve 47, 5 and 8 security vulnerabilities (respectively). Version 89.0.4389.82 for does not contain security updates.

Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 vertically stacked dots) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.

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Netmask Library
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The netmask npm library disclosed a security issue that was addressed in version 2.0.0. Version 2.0.2 has since been released with the previous version 2.0.1 providing a more complete fix for CVE-2021-29418. Further details are available from BleepingComputer.

The relevant security advisory is here with details of how to download version 2.0.2 available from here. Please update to this version if you use this library.

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Original Post
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To my readers; I hope you are doing well.

In advance of next Tuesday’s security updates by Adobe and Microsoft I wanted to highlight the following emergency updates from Microsoft intended for Microsoft Exchange. Google also released an important update for Chrome.

If you use Microsoft Exchange 2013, 2016 or 2019, please make certain to install the following updates as soon as possible. Attackers are already seeking to advantage of these vulnerabilities:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-26855

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-26857

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-26858

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-27065

BleepingComputer also provided the following helpful links:

How to install the Microsoft Exchange Updates

Provided PowerShell console commands to scan event logs for traces of attacks against these vulnerabilities

An Nmap script to scan your network for vulnerable Exchange servers (provided by Microsoft Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst Kevin Beaumont)

Special thanks to BleepingComputer for the above links and advice. Thank you.

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Google Chrome
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Google released Google Chrome v89.0.4389.72 for Linux, Mac and Windows on the 2nd March to resolve 47 security vulnerabilities. One; CVE-2021-21166 is being exploited by attackers.

Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 vertically stacked dots) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.

July 2020 Update Summary

Earlier this month Adobe and Microsoft made available their expected security updates. These updates resolve 13 and 123 vulnerabilities (respectively) more formally known as CVEs (defined).

An interesting fact as pointed out by ZDI is that for “five straight months of 110+ CVEs released and brings the total for 2020 up to 742. For comparison, Microsoft released patches for 851 CVEs in all of 2019. At this pace, Microsoft will eclipse that number next month. They have already passed their totals for 2017 (665) and 2018 (691)”.

I believe that while this gives us all more work to apply the patches, overall we are becoming safer since more issues are being discovered and resolved.

Let’s begin with Adobe’s updates:

Adobe Bridge: 3x Priority 3 CVEs resolved (3x Critical Severity)

Adobe ColdFusion: 2x Priority 2 CVEs resolved (2x Important Severity)

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application: 4x Priority 2 CVEs (1x Critical and 3x Important Severity)

Adobe Download Manager: 1x Priority 3 (1x Critical Severity)

Adobe Genuine Service: 3x Priority 3 (3x Important Severity)

Adobe Media Encoder: 3x Priority 3 (2x Critical Severity, 1x Important Severity)

Adobe Photoshop: 5x Priority 3 CVEs resolved (5x Critical Severity)

If you use any of the above Adobe products, especially those with critical severity updates; please install these updates as soon as possible.

Microsoft’s monthly summary; lists Known Issues for 11 Microsoft products but all have workarounds or corrective updates.

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A further useful source of update related information is the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

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For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
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The highest priority update for this month is the Windows DNS Server vulnerability. Please see my dedicated post for more details.

Windows SharedStream Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1463

Windows Font Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1436

GDI+ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1435

.NET Framework, SharePoint Server, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1147

Windows Hyper-V RemoteFX vGPU Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-1032 , CVE-2020-1036 , CVE-2020-1040 , CVE-2020-1041 , CVE-2020-1042 , CVE-2020-1043

For these Hyper-V vulnerabilities; they affect Intel and AMD GPU drivers. Intel has not yet released updates for these vulnerabilities. AMD has scheduled driver updates for September 2020. Nvidia GPU drivers are not affected.

DirectWrite Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1409

GDI+ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1435

LNK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1421

Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1349

Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege: CVE-2020-1025

Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1374

VBScript Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1403

Windows Address Book Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1410

PerformancePoint Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2020-1439

As per standard best practice, I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues.

I have also provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications and devices below.

To all of my readers and your families, I hope you are continuing to stay safe during these tough times; things are slowly getting better. Thank you.

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Nvidia
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In early July Nvidia released a security update for GeForce Experience. A further security update was released on the 8th of July for Nvidia’s NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier, TX1, TX2, and Nano L4T software development kit (SDK) for Linux.

As was the case with previous Nvidia security updates all of these vulnerabilities are local vulnerabilities rather than remote meaning that an attacker would first need to compromise your system before exploiting the vulnerabilities to elevate their privileges.

To resolve the local vulnerabilities within GeForce Experience  apply the necessary update by opening GeForce Experience which will automatically update it or the update can be obtained from here.

An updated version of the Nvidia’s NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier, TX1, TX2, and Nano L4T software development kit (SDK) is available from NVIDIA DevZone. An alternative means of mitigating the vulnerability is also provided in the security advisory.

Separately as pointed out above in the update prioritisation for Microsoft’s updates, Nvidia have confirmed that their GPU drivers are not affected by the Windows Hyper-V RemoteFX vGPU vulnerabilities responsibly disclosed by the Cisco Talos team.

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Google Chrome
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In mid-July Google made available Chrome version 84.0.4147.89 or Linux, Mac and Windows to resolving 38 security vulnerabilities and introducing new features (please the see above Google link for details).

Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 vertically stacked dots) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.

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VMware
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VMware released 3 security advisories to resolve vulnerabilities within the following products:

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Advisory 1: Severity: Critical:

VMware vSphere ESXi (ESXi)

VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation)

VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion (Fusion)

VMware Cloud Foundation

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Advisory 2: Severity: Important:

VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud (VeloCloud)

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Advisory 3: Severity: Important:

VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion (Fusion)

VMware Remote Console for Mac (VMRC for Mac)

VMware Horizon Client for Mac

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If you use any of the above VMware products, please review the above advisories and install the applicable security updates as soon as possible, especially in the case of the critical security updates.

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Wireshark
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On the 1st July; Wireshark made available security updates (I’ll detail only the 2 most recent versions here):

v3.2.5: Relating to 1 security advisory for 1 CVE

v3.0.12: Resolves minor non-security bugs.

As per standard process Linux distributions can obtain this update using the operating systems standard package manager (if the latest version is not installed automatically using the package manager you can instead compile the source code (v3.2.5 or v3.0.12). This forum thread and this forum thread may also be helpful to you with installing Wireshark on your Linux based system.

For Mac OS X and Windows, the update is available within the downloads section of the Wireshark website. In addition, a detailed FAQ for Wireshark is available here.

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Apple Security Updates:
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In mid-July; Apple made available the following updates.

Further details for these updates are as follows:

macOS Catalina 10.15.6, Security Update 2020-004 Mojave, Security Update 2020-004 High Sierra: Resolves 19 CVEs.
watchOS 6.2.8: Resolves 19 CVEs.
Apple tvOS 13.4.8: Resolves 20 CVEs.
Apple iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6: Resolves 29 CVEs.
Safari 13.1.2: Resolves 11 CVEs.

While the following products do not have CVEs associated with them, it is still best practice to use the most updated versions:

Apple iOS 12.4.8
Apple Xcode 11.6
Apple watchOS 5.3.8
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Please see these links from Apple for advice on backing up your iPhone and iPad. Steps for updating them are here. Advice for updating tvOS is available here while the steps for updating the Apple Watch are available here.

As always; further details of these updates are available on Apple’s dedicated security updates page.

For advice on how to install updates for Apple devices, please see the steps detailed at the end of this Sophos blog post as well as this link (from my “Protecting Your PC”

April 2020 Update Summary

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Update: 27th April 2020
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Late last week, Microsoft issued a security advisory for Microsoft Office 2019, 365 ProPlus and Paint 3D (available within Windows 10).

These correct 4 remote code execution (an attacker can carry out any action of their choice on a compromised system) and 2 denial of service (in this instance the affected application will become unresponsive) vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities also affect the following Autodesk products:

FBX-SDK
Maya
Motion Builder
Mudbox
3ds Max
Fusion
Revit
Flame
Infraworks
Navisworks
Autodesk AutoCAD

Please make certain your versions of the affected Autodesk products, Office 2019 or 365 ProPlus and Paint3D are up to date. The steps detailed in this linked to BleepingComputer article will guide you through doing so. The Paint3D app should have already installed the update automatically. However you can manually check for updates with these steps.

The necessary details to update the affected Autodesk products are available in the above linked to Autodesk security advisory. Details for verifying if Paint3D and Microsoft Office have been updated are provided in Microsoft’s advisory. Please see the questions titled: “I am running Office 2019 or Office 365 ProPlus. How do I tell if the security update for this vulnerability is included in my version of Office?” and “I have Paint 3D or 3D Viewer installed. How do I know if I have the security update installed?” Further details of the potential impact of these vulnerabilities as well as a recommended mitigation step are provided in this Sophos blog post.

Thank you.

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Update: 15th April 2020
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Yesterday Microsoft  released their scheduled updates to resolve 113 CVEs (defined). Similarly Adobe released 3 security bulletins.

Microsoft’s monthly summary; lists Known Issues for 43 Microsoft products but all have workarounds or resolution steps listed.

To begin with, let’s look at Adobe’s updates:
Adobe After Effects: 1x Priority 3 CVE resolved (1x Important severity)
Adobe ColdFusion: 3x Priority 2 CVEs resolved (3x Important severity)
Adobe Digital Editions: 1x Priority 3 CVE resolved (1x Important severity)

Adobe later issued further updates:
Adobe Bridge: 17x Priority 3 CVEs resolved (14x Critical severity, 3x Important severity)
Adobe Illustrator: 5x Priority 3 CVEs resolved (5x Critical severity)

If you use the above Adobe products, please install these updates (especially in the case of the above critical vulnerabilities within Bridge and Illustrator).

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A further useful source of update related information is the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

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As always for this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
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Following disclosure last month, the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) vulnerabilities have been patched in addition to the following zero day vulnerabilities and a further publicly disclosed vulnerability;

Zero Days (defined):
Microsoft Adobe Type Manager: CVE-2020-0938 and CVE-2020-1020
Microsoft Scripting Engine: CVE-2020-0968
Windows Kernel: CVE-2020-1027

Publicly disclosed:
Microsoft OneDrive: CVE-2020-0935

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Microsoft Scripting Engine: CVE-2020-0970
Microsoft Chakra Scripting Engine: CVE-2020-0969
Microsoft Graphics: CVE-2020-0687
Microsoft Graphics Components: CVE-2020-0907
Windows DNS: CVE-2020-0993
Windows Hyper-V: CVE-2020-0910
Windows Codecs: CVE-2020-0965
Windows Media Foundation: CVE-2020-0948 , CVE-2020-0949 , CVE-2020-0950
Microsoft SharePoint: CVE-2020-0929 , CVE-2020-0931 , CVE-2020-0932, CVE-2020-0974
Microsoft Office SharePoint XSS: CVE-2020-0927
Microsoft Dynamics: CVE-2020-1022

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Please install the remaining updates at your earliest convenience.

As per standard best practice, I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues.

I have also provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications and devices below.

To all of my readers and your families, please stay safe during these challenging times. Thank you.

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Mozilla Firefox
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On the 7th of April, Mozilla released Firefox 75 and Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 68.7 to resolve the following vulnerabilities:

Firefox 75.0: Addresses 3x high severity CVEs, 3x moderate severity CVEs

Firefox 68.7 ESR: Addresses 4x high severity CVEs (1 of which only affects Firefox for Android) and 1x moderate severity CVE

Firefox 75 and the previous 74.0.1 reverse the removal of support for TLs 1.0 and TLS 1.1. due to the current COVID-19 situation. It offers improved performance when installed on systems powered by Intel GPUs (defined), is available in the Flatpak distribution format for Linux and offers improved performance by “locally cache all trusted Web PKI Certificate Authority certificates that Mozilla knows, improving security and HTTPS compatibility with misconfigured web servers as a direct result”. Moreover, an improved address bar is now present in Firefox 75. Its improvements are detailed in Firefox’s release notes. Please also be aware of the new telemetry Mozilla has begun to collect with Firefox 75, you may or may not wish to turn this off.

Firefox 74.0.1 and Firefox ESR 68.6.1 were released on the 3rd of April to resolve the following zero day (defined) vulnerabilities actively being exploited in targeted attacks:

Firefox 74.0.1 and Firefox 68.6.1 ESR: Addresses 2x critical severity CVEs

Details of how to install updates for Firefox are here. If Firefox is your web browser of choice, if you have not already done so, please update it as soon as possible to benefit from the above changes.

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VMware
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VMware released 3 security advisories to resolve vulnerabilities within the following products:

VMware vCenter Server
VMware vRealize Log Insight
VMware ESXi 6.5 up to and including 7.0

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Advisory 1: Severity: Critical:
VMware vCenter Server

Advisory 2: Severity: Important
VMware vRealize Log Insight

Advisory 3: Severity: Important:
VMware ESXi 6.5 up to and including 7.0
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If you use either of the above products, please review the above advisories and install the applicable security updates as soon as possible.

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Oracle:
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Oracle issued updates to resolve 405 vulnerabilities this month. Further details and installation steps are available here. 15 vulnerabilities affect the Java runtime; all of which are remotely exploitable without an attacker needing to obtain a user’s username and password (their credentials).

Separately Oracle has issued a notice that attacks are being detected attempting to exploit a patched vulnerability (CVE-2020-2883) in Oracle Web Logic server. They strongly suggest installing this month’s update for that product to protect against these attacks.

If you use any of the Oracle products listed here, please install the appropriate security updates as soon as possible.

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OpenSSL
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On the 21st April the OpenSSL Foundation issued OpenSSL 1.1.1g which includes a high severity security fix.

FTP mirrors to obtain the necessary downloads are available from here. Downloadable Tarballs (compressed/packaged code made for distribution) are available from here.

It should also be possible to use the package manager of a Linux/Unix operating system to update your OpenSSL installation as mentioned within the section titled “Installing updates for Linux distributions” on the “Protecting Your PC” page of this blog.

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In early April WinSCP version 5.17.3 was made available upgrading its version of OpenSSL to 1.1.1f (from the previous version of 1.1.1d). This update resolves 1x Low severity vulnerability.

On the 24th of April, WinSCP was upgraded to version 5.17.4 which also upgrades its version of OpenSSL to version 1.1.1g resolving a high severity vulnerability. Please install this update if you use WinSCP.

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VideoLAN VLC
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On the 28th of April, VideoLAN released version 3.0.10 resolving multiple security issues (version 3.2.12 for Android and version 3.2.7 for iOS were also released) assigned to 7 CVEs (various DOSes (Denial of Services) in the microDNS service discovery). 1 CVE has been rated as critical with the other 6 being of high severity. The most recent versions can be downloaded from:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Wireshark
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In early April, Wireshark made available the following updates (I’ll detail only the 2 most recent versions here):

v3.2.3: Relating to 1 security advisory (relating to 1 CVE)
v3.0.10: Relating to 1 security advisory (relating to 1 CVE)

As per standard process Linux distributions can obtain this update using the operating systems standard package manager (if the latest version is not installed automatically using the package manager you can instead compile the source code (v3.2.4 or v3.0.9). This forum thread and this forum thread may also be helpful to you with installing Wireshark on your Linux based system.

For Mac OS X and Windows, the update is available within the downloads section of the Wireshark website. In addition, a detailed FAQ for Wireshark is available here.

Thank you and please stay safe.

March 2020 Update Summary

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Update: 28th March 2020
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I have added the details of the security updates released by Apple on the 24th March near the end of this post. Thank you.

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Update: 25th March 2020
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Adobe has released a further update for Creative Cloud Desktop. I have added the details below to the Adobe updates list.

VMware have also released VMware Fusion 11.5.3 to more completely address a previously patched vulnerability. Details are below in the VMware updates list.

Thank you.

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Update: 23rd March 2020
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Since originally writing this post, Adobe published their security updates a week later than usual. Further details are listed below.

Thank you.

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Adobe
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Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 13x Priority 2 CVEs (defined)resolved (9x Critical and 4x Important severity)
Adobe Bridge: 2x Priority 3 CVEs resolved (2x Critical severity)
Adobe ColdFusion:  2x Priority 2 CVEs resolved (2x Critical severity)
Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop: 1x Priority 2 CVE resolved (1x Critical severity)
Adobe Experience Manager: 1x Priority 2 CVE resolved (1x Important severity)
Adobe Genuine Integrity Service: 1x Priority 3 CVE resolved (1x Important severity)
Adobe Photoshop: 21x Priority 3 CVEs resolved (15x Critical and 6x Important severity)

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Update: 15th March 2020:
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Security researcher Kevin Beaumont has provided further details of the critical SMBv3.1 vulnerability affecting Windows 10 Version 1903 and 1909. In summary the vulnerability is not trivial to exploit and the number of systems at the time of writing (13th March) vulnerability to the exploit had already dropped by 25%.

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Update: 12th March 2020:
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Microsoft have released an update to resolve the SMBv3 vulnerability now designated CVE-2020-0796, (EternalDarkness or SMBGhost) please apply it to any Windows 10 Server or Windows 10 workstation system running Windows 10 Version 1903 or 1909 as soon as possible. Please also make certain that such systems are not exposing port 445 to the internet (please seethe FAQ in their information on the relevant update).

An internet scan by security researchers of vulnerable estimates that there are 48,000 vulnerable Windows 10 systems. You can use the ollypwn scan (created by a Danish security researcher) can be used to check if a system is vulnerable.

I wish to add the following useful clarification (which was written before the Microsoft security update became available) from Richard Melick, senior technical product manager at Automox in relation to this SMBv3 vulnerability:

“Considering that SMBv3 is not as widely used as SMBv1, the potential immediate impact of this threat is most likely lower than past vulnerabilities. But that does not mean organizations should be disregarding any endpoint hardening that can happen now while Microsoft works on a patch…it’s better to respond today and disable SMBv3 and block TCP port 445. Respond now and vulnerabilities end today”.

To all of my readers, please stay safe during these challenging times. Thank you.

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Update: 11th March 2020
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As expected, yesterday Microsoft  released their scheduled updates to resolve 115 CVEs (defined). Unusually for this month, Adobe has not released any updates.

Microsoft’s monthly summary; lists Known Issues for 14 Microsoft products but all have workarounds or resolution steps listed just as the previous month’s did.

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A further useful source of update related information is the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

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As always for this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
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For Windows or Windows Server system (Version 1903 and 1909) systems that uses SMBv3, please follow Microsoft’s guidance in the following security advisory while an update is not yet available. Please apply the update as soon as it is made available:

ADV200005 | Microsoft Guidance for Disabling SMBv3 Compression

Please also make certain that TCP port 445 is blocked at the enterprise perimeter firewall to prevent exploitation.

This vulnerability is “wormable” meaning that similar to the WannaCry malware and the BlueKeep vulnerability if exploited it may lead to a very large malware outbreak in a very short time.

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Windows LNK: CVE-2020-0684
Windows Media Foundation: CVE-2020-0801 , CVE-2020-0807 , CVE-2020-0809,  CVE-2020-0869
Microsoft Internet Explorer: CVE-2020-0824
Microsoft Browsers: CVE-2020-0768

Microsoft Scripting Engine: CVE-2020-0830 , CVE-2020-0847, CVE-2020-0833 , CVE-2020-0832, CVE-2020-0829 , CVE-2020-0813 , CVE-2020-0826, CVE-2020-0827 , CVE-2020-0825 , CVE-2020-0831, CVE-2020-0811, CVE-2020-0828, CVE-2020-0848, CVE-2020-0823, CVE-2020-0812

Microsoft GDI+: CVE-2020-0881, CVE-2020-0883
Microsoft Word: CVE-2020-0852
Microsoft Dynamics: CVE-2020-0905
Microsoft Edge: CVE-2020-0816

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Please install the remaining updates at your earliest convenience.

As per standard best practice; I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues.

I have also provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications and devices below.

To all of my readers, please stay safe during these challenging times. Thank you.

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Netgear
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On the 3rd of March, Netgear released 25 security advisories for its modem-router gateways, approximately 40 routers and a range extender. The vulnerability range up to critical in severity.

If you own a Netgear router, range extender or modem-router gateway, please use the guidance within this article (many thanks to Tom’s Guide for this advice and the appropriate how to check for updates steps) to locate your Netgear device model e.g. R6400 and to match it against the available security bulletins to check if your device requires a firmware (defined) update sometimes called a software update. Please install the update if one is available. The above linked to article also describes the varied methods to update your Netgear device.

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Intel Security Advisories
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Intel have released a series of security advisories this month. The advisories are prioritised below. If you use any of these products, software or devices, please update them as soon as possible especially in the case of the high severity advisories.

High
Intel Smart Sound Technology Advisory
BlueZ Advisory
Intel NUC Firmware Advisory

Medium
Intel MAX 10 FPGA Advisory
Intel Processors Load Value Injection Advisory
Snoop Assisted L1D Sampling Advisory
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Module Management Software Advisory
Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 Advisory
Intel Graphics Drivers Advisory

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Mozilla Firefox
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Yesterday, Mozilla released Firefox 74 and Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 68.6 to resolve the following vulnerabilities:

Firefox 74.0: Addresses 6x high severity CVEs, 6x medium severity CVEs and 1x low CVE

Firefox 68.6 ESR: Addresses 5x high severity CVEs and 3x medium severity CVEs

Firefox 74 also removes support TLS 1.0 (what is TLS, defined) and 1.1 as per Mozilla’s previous timelime, adds a Facebook Container add-in to limit how much the social tracks you across other sites and blocks the ability for other applications to install Firefox add-ons without your knowledge or consent. Further details of these features and other features added can be found within this article (my thanks to Lawrence Abrams of Bleepingcomputer.com for this information).

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Google Chrome
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Early last week, Google released Chrome version 80.0.3987.132 for Linux, Mac and Windows to resolve 4 security vulnerabilities with the most severe being of high severity.

Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 vertically stacked dots) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.

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Apple Security Updates:
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On the 24th of March Apple made available the following updates. Notable fixes affect the kernels of macOS, iOS and iPadOS, WebKit (the renderer of Safari), Bluetooth and Safari.

These updates bring Safari to version 13.1 and add updates to its Intelligence Tracking Prevention (ITP) privacy feature while also introducing a block on all 3rd party cookies (defined) by default.

Further details for these updates are as follows:
Apple iOS v13.4 and iPadOS 13.4 (resolves 35x CVEs (defined))
Apple tvOS 13.4: Resolves 20x CVEs.
Apple watchOS 6.2: Resolves 17x CVEs
Apple watchOS 5.3.6 (no CVEs resolved)
Apple iTunes version 12.10.5 for Windows: Resolves 13x CVEs
macOS Catalina 10.15.4, Security Update 2020-002 Mojave, Security Update 2020-002 High Sierra: Resolves 27x CVEs.
Safari 13.1: Resolves 11 CVEs
Apple iCloud for Windows 10.9.3: Resolves 13 CVEs
Apple iCloud for Windows 7.18: Resolves 13 CVEs
Xcode 11.4: Resolves 1 CVE (?: Apple’s post provides little details)

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Please see these links from Apple for advice on backing up your iPhone and iPad. Advice for updating tvOS is available here while the steps for updating the Apple Watch are available here.

As always; further details of these updates are available on Apple’s dedicated security updates page.

For advice on how to install updates for Apple devices, please see the steps detailed at the end of this Sophos blog post as well as this link (from my “Protecting Your PC” page).

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OpenSSL
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On the 17th March the OpenSSL Foundation issued OpenSSL 1.1.1e (download/installation links included) which includes a low severity security fix.

FTP mirrors to obtain the necessary downloads are available from here.

Downloadable Tarballs (compressed/packaged code made for distribution) are available from here.

It should also be possible to use the package manager of a Linux/Unix operating system to update your OpenSSL installation as mentioned within the section titled “Installing updates for Linux distributions” on the “Protecting Your PC” page of this blog.

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VMware
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VMware have so far released 2 security advisories this month to resolve vulnerabilities within the following products:

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Advisory 1: Severity: Critical:
VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation)
VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion (Fusion)
VMware Horizon Client for Windows
VMware Remote Console for Windows (VMRC for Windows)
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Advisory 2: Severity: Important:
VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation)
VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion (Fusion)
VMware Remote Console for Mac (VMRC for Mac)
VMware Horizon Client for Mac
VMware Horizon Client for Windows
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Advisory 2 (above) has been updated by VMware to state VMware Fusion has been updated to version 11.5.3 to more comprehensively resolve the vulnerability designated CVE-2020-3950. Please make certain if you use VMwre Fusion that it is the latest version available.

If you use any of the above products, please review the above advisories and install the applicable security updates as soon as possible.

December 2019 Update Summary

As scheduled, on the 10th of December Adobe and Microsoft made available their monthly security updates.

Adobe resolved 25 CVEs this month with Microsoft separately patching 36 CVEs (defined).
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Adobe Brackets (an open source (the source code (human readable code) is free to view and edit by the wider IT community) application development editor focused on web development): 1x Priority 3 CVE resolved (1x Critical severity)

Adobe ColdFusion: 1x Priority 2 CVE resolved (1x Important severity)

Adobe Photoshop CC: 2x Priority 3 CVEs resolved (2x Critical severity)

Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 21x Priority 2 CVEs resolved (14x Critical severity and 7x Important severity)

If you use the above Adobe products, please install these updates (especially in the case of the above critical vulnerabilities in all but ColdFusion).
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Within Microsoft’s monthly summary; there are Known Issues for 17 Microsoft products but all have workarounds (some workarounds will be replaced by revised or further updates) or updates already available to resolve them.

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US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

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For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
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Microsoft Graphics Component (Win32k Graphics): CVE-2019-1468

Microsoft Windows Kernel (defined): CVE-2019-1458

Windows Hyper-V: CVE-2019-1471

Microsoft Visual Studio: CVE-2019-1349 , CVE-2019-1350 , CVE-2019-1352 , CVE-2019-1354 , CVE-2019-1387

Microsoft Guidance for cleaning up orphaned keys generated on vulnerable TPMs (defined) and used for Windows Hello for Business: Security Advisory

Please install the remaining less severe updates at your earliest convenience.

As per standard best practice; I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues.

I have provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications below.

Thank you.

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Mozilla Firefox
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Mozilla released new versions of Firefox to address the following vulnerabilities and to introduce new privacy features:

Firefox 71.0: Resolves 6x high severity CVEs (defined) and 5x moderate CVEs

Firefox ESR 68.3 (Extended Support Release): Resolves 4x high severity CVEs and 4x moderate CVEs

Highlights from version 71 of Firefox include:
An improved password manager which has the ability to recognise subdomains and to provide password breach notifications from Firefox Monitor for users with screen readers. Native MP3 decoding, kiosk mode and picture in picture support were also added.

The tracking protection enabled by default from Firefox 69 has been enhanced to add 3 different levels (similar to high, medium and custom) of protection and to provide a summary of the number of tracking preventative actions Firefox takes on your behalf. An in-depth description of this feature is available in this Softpedia article. My thanks as always to its author Bogdan Popa for this really well gathered information.

Details of how to install updates for Firefox are here. If Firefox is your web browser of choice, if you have not already done so, please update it as soon as possible to benefit from the above changes.

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Google Chrome
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Google made available two security updates during November; the first resolves 4 vulnerabilities while the second resolves  5 vulnerabilities.

Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 vertically stacked dots) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.

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AMD
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In early December AMD issued a security advisory for its GPU and APU (defined) drivers (defined). It resolves 2 vulnerabilities CVE-2019-5049 and CVE-2019-5098. The steps to install the drivers on Windows are located here with a guide for Linux available here. Please make certain the drivers are version 20.1.1 or later (as per multiple recommendations from Talos, 1 , 2 and 3). As per those same recommendations if you use VMware Player or Workstation Pro, please make certain it is version 15.5.1 or later. If you use the affected AMD graphics cards, please consider updating your drivers to the most recent available.

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Nvidia
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In late December Nvidia released a security update for Nvidia Geforce Experience to resolve a vulnerability that may lead to a denial of service (defined) issue or an escalation of privilege (defined) issue. This vulnerability is a local vulnerability rather than remote meaning that an attacker would first need to compromise your system before exploiting this vulnerability to elevate their privileges. To resolve this local vulnerability within Geforce Experience  apply the necessary update by opening Geforce Experience which will automatically update it or the update can be obtained from here.

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Intel Security Advisories
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Intel have released a series of security advisories this month. The high priority advisories are the following:

High
Linux Administrative Tools for Intel Network Adapters Advisory

Intel NUC Firmware Advisory

The remaining advisories are of medium and low priority:

Medium
Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition Advisory

Intel RST Advisory (see also my separate post on this vulnerability)

Control Center-I Advisory

Intel SCS Platform Discovery Utility Advisory

Unexpected Page Fault in Virtualized Environment Advisory

Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL Advisory

Low
Intel Ethernet I218 Adapter Driver for Windows Advisory

Intel Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework Advisory

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VMware
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Similar to last month, VMware released 2 further security advisories, the first is of critical severity with the second being of moderate severity relating to the products:

Critical Severity Advisory:

VMware ESXi
VMware Horizon DaaS appliances

Moderate Severity Advisory:
VMware Workstation Pro / Player for Linux
VMware Horizon View Agent

If you use the above VMware products, please review the advisories and apply the necessary updates.

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OpenSSL
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On the 6th December; the OpenSSL Foundation issued 1 update for OpenSSL to address a single low severity security vulnerability as detailed in this security advisory. To resolve this issue please update your OpenSSL installations to 1.1.1e-dev or 1.0.2u (as appropriate). Please note that OpenSSL 1.0.2 will be unsupported and thus will not receive any security updates after 31st December 2019. Please upgrade to version 1.1.1 or later.

FTP mirrors to obtain the necessary downloads are available from here.

Downloadable Tarballs (compressed/packaged code made for distribution) are available from here.

It should also be possible to use the package manager of a Linux/Unix operating system to update your OpenSSL installation as mentioned within the section titled “Installing updates for Linux distributions” on the “Protecting Your PC” page of this blog.

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Apple Security Updates
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Throughout December Apple has released security updates for the following products:

Apple iOS v12.4.4 and 13.3 / iPad OS 13.3: Resolves 1 CVE (defined) and 14 CVEs (respectively)

Apple Safari 13.0.4: Resolves 2 CVEs

Apple macOS Catalina and macOS High Sierra: Resolves 52 CVEs

Apple tvOS 13.3: Resolves 11 CVEs

Apple watchOS 5.3.4 and 6.1.1: Resolves 1 CVE and 10 CVEs (respectively)

Apple Xcode 11.3: Resolves 1 CVE

Apple iTunes 12.10.3 for Windows: Resolves 4 CVEs

Apple iCloud for Windows 7.16 (includes AAS 8.2): Resolves 4 CVEs

Apple iCloud for Windows 10.9: Resolves 4 CVEs

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Please see these links from Apple for advice on backing up your iPhone and iPad. Advice for updating tvOS is available here while the steps for updating the Apple Watch are available here.

As always; further details of these updates are available on Apple’s dedicated security updates page.

For advice on how to install updates for Apple devices, please see the steps detailed at the end of this Sophos blog post as well as this link (from my “Protecting Your PC” page).

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Wireshark
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In early December the following Wireshark updates were released:

v3.0.7: 1 security advisory

v2.6.13: 1 security advisory

The above v3.0.7 version was later super seceded by v3.2 on the 18th of December. While it does not address security issues, it will be the version being updated going forward. Version 3.2 will also be the last version to support Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.

As per standard process Linux distributions can obtain this update using the operating systems standard package manager (if the latest version is not installed automatically using the package manager you can instead compile the source code (v3.0.7 or v2.6.13). This forum thread and this forum thread may also be helpful to you with installing Wireshark on your Linux based system.

For Mac OS X and Windows, the update is available within the downloads section of the Wireshark website. In addition, a detailed FAQ for Wireshark is available here.

June 2019 Update Summary

With yesterday being the second Tuesday of the month; it means it’s Update Tuesday again. Microsoft resolved 88 vulnerabilities  (more formally known as CVEs (defined) with Adobe addressing 11 vulnerabilities of their own.

Adobe Campaign: 7x Priority 3 vulnerabilities (1x Critical, 3x Important, 3x Moderate)

Adobe ColdFusion: 3x Priority 2 vulnerabilities (3x Critical)

Adobe Flash Player: 1x Priority 1 vulnerability (1x Critical)

If you use Adobe ColdFusion, please apply the necessary updates as soon as possible. For that product, as per Adobe’s advisory, please make certain the Java JDK/JRE in use on the server is fully up to date in order to fully secure it. Please install the remaining updates for Campaign and Flash Player as soon as possible since they also resolve critical vulnerabilities.

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For Microsoft; this month’s list of Known Issues is available within their monthly summary page and applies to all currently supported operating systems. Not all issues have workarounds at this time. Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 list known issues with McAfee products and should refer to the guidance linked to by Microsoft within the above linked to attempt to workaround these issues:

4493730                Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Servicing stack update

4503027                Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Server 2016

4503028                Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3, Exchange Server 2013

4503263                Windows Server 2012 (Security-only update)

4503267                Windows 10, version 1607, Windows Server 2016

4503276                Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 (Monthly Rollup)

4503279                Windows 10, version 1703

4503284                Windows 10, version 1709

4503285                Windows Server 2012 (Monthly Rollup)

4503286                Windows 10, version 1803

4503290                Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 (Security-only update)

4503291                Windows 10

4503292                Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Security-only update)

4503293                Windows 10, version 1903

4503327                Windows 10, version 1809, Windows Server 2019

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US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

A further useful source of update related information is the Calendar of Updates.

News/announcements of updates in the categories of General Software, Security Software and Utilities are available on their website. The news/announcements are very timely and (almost always) contain useful direct download links as well as the changes/improvements made by those updates (where possible).

If you like and use it, please also consider supporting that entirely volunteer run website by donating.

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For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
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Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer: CVE-2019-1038

Microsoft Speech API Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0985

Microsoft Scripting Engine:

CVE-2019-1002

CVE-2019-0991

CVE-2019-1080

CVE-2019-1023

CVE-2019-0992

CVE-2019-1024

CVE-2019-0990

CVE-2019-0988

CVE-2019-0989

CVE-2019-1055

CVE-2019-1052

CVE-2019-1051

CVE-2019-0920

CVE-2019-1003

Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0709 , CVE-2019-0722 , CVE-2019-0620

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0888

Windows Task Scheduler: CVE-2019-1069 (disclosed by SandboxEscaper)

Windows AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC): CVE-2019-1064 (disclosed by SandboxEscaper)

Windows Shell: CVE-2019-1053 (disclosed by SandboxEscaper)

Windows Installer: CVE-2019-0973 (disclosed by SandboxEscaper)

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Please install the remaining updates at your earliest convenience.

As per standard best practice; I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues.

I have provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications below.

Thank you.

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VideoLAN VLC:
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A new version of VLC is available for Apple macOS, Linux, Windows (desktop and Windows Store), Google Android and Apple iOS with some great performance improvements and resolving 33 security vulnerabilities (2 of which are high severity) as a result of the EU-FOSSA bug bounty programme which opened in January this year.

Further details are below:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.7.html

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2019/VLC-3.0.7-and-security

Version 3.0.7.1 has since been released to resolve other non-security issues. The most recent version can be downloaded from:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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Mozilla Firefox
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Yesterday (11th June), Mozilla released Firefox 67.0.2 to address a single moderate severity vulnerability.

Further to the above updates, on the 18th and the 20th June; Mozilla issued 2 updates for Firefox version 67.0.3 (ESR (Extended Support Release) 60.7.1) and 67.0.4 (ESR 60.7.2) to resolve 2x critical zero day (defined) vulnerabilities actively being exploited in the wild.

Details of how to install updates for Firefox are here. If Firefox is your web browser of choice, if you have not already done so, please update it as soon as possible to benefit from the above changes.

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Google Chrome:
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Google released Google Chrome version 75.0.3770.80 to address 42 vulnerabilities in early June.

Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 stacked small horizontal lines, sometimes called a “hamburger” button) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.

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VMware:
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Earlier this month VMware published a security advisory to address a single Important severity vulnerability in VMware Tools for Linux and Windows.

If you use VMware Tools on Linux or Windows, please review the security advisory and apply the necessary updates.

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DOSBox
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The retro gaming and legacy software emulator DOSBox in late June released an update to correct vulnerabilities discovered during a small code audit.

2 CVEs (CVE-2019-7165 and CVE-2019-12594) were assigned (that resolve critical vulnerabilities with CVSS 3.0 (defined) base scores of 9.8) but more out of bound access and buffer overflows (defined) were also resolved. Further details are available in their news post dated, 26th June 2019.

If you use DOSBox, please consider upgrading to version 0.74-3 which also includes many fixes for non-security bugs. The new version is available from here.

Thank you.

March 2019 Update Summary

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Updated: 21st March 2019
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Two of the vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft (CVE-2019-0797, CVE-2019-0808) were zero day (defined) vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild. Four other vulnerabilities were publicly known (CVE-2019-0683, CVE-2019-0754, CVE-2019-0757 and CVE-2019-0809).

Separately the Google Chrome vulnerability mentioned below namely CVE-2019-5786 was also being exploited by attackers.

After publishing my original post; Adobe and Microsoft jointly reported that while a newer version (32.0.0.156) of Flash Player was made available it only resolves non-security bugs.

I have updated the suggested installation order (below) to reflect this new information. Thank you.

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Original Post:
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As scheduled; earlier today Microsoft and Adobe made available their security updates. Microsoft addressed 65 vulnerabilities (more formally known as CVEs (defined)) with Adobe resolving 2 vulnerabilities.

For Adobe; if you have not already done so; if you manage an installation of Adobe ColdFusion or know someone who does, please apply the necessary updates made available earlier this month. That update addressed a single priority 1 zero day (defined) vulnerability being exploited in the wild. Today’s Adobe updates are as follows:

Adobe Digital Editions: 1x priority 3 CVE resolved

Adobe Photoshop CC: 1x priority3 CVE resolved

If you use the affected Adobe products; please install their remaining priority 3 updates when you can.

This month’s list of Known Issues is now sorted by Microsoft within their monthly summary page and applies to all currently supported operating systems:

KB4489878          Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Monthly Rollup)

KB4489881          Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 (Monthly Rollup)

KB4489882          Windows 10 version 1607, Windows Server 2016

KB4489883          Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 (Security-only update)

KB4489884          Windows Server 2012 (Security-only update)

KB4489885          Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Security-only update)

KB4489891          Windows Server 2012 (Monthly Rollup)

KB4489899          Windows 10 version 1809, Windows Server 2019

You can monitor the availability of security updates for most your software from the following websites (among others) or use one of the utilities presented on this page:

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US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

A further useful source of update related information is the Calendar of Updates.

News/announcements of updates in the categories of General Software, Security Software and Utilities are available on their website. The news/announcements are very timely and (almost always) contain useful direct download links as well as the changes/improvements made by those updates (where possible).

If you like and use it, please also consider supporting that entirely volunteer run website by donating.

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For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
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Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (multiple versions of Edge and IE affected)

Windows Kernel: CVE-2019-0797, CVE-2019-0808

Windows DHCP Client: CVE-2019-0697 , CVE-2019-0698 , CVE-2019-0726

Microsoft XML: CVE-2019-0756

Scripting Engine: CVE-2019-0592 , CVE-2019-0746 , CVE-2019-0639 , CVE-2019-0783 , CVE-2019-0609 , CVE-2019-0611 , CVE-2019-0666 , CVE-2019-0769 , CVE-2019-0665 , CVE-2019-0667 , CVE-2019-0680 , CVE-2019-0773 , CVE-2019-0770 , CVE-2019-0771 , CVE-2019-0772

Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0809

Microsoft Active Directory: CVE-2019-0683

NuGet Package Manager Tampering Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0757

Windows Denial of Service Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0754

Microsoft Dynamics 365: a privilege escalation vulnerability (defined) has been addressed (this product is also widely deployed)

If you use Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services), please review advisory: ADV190005

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Please install the remaining updates at your earliest convenience.

As always; I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues. I have provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications below.

Thank you.

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Google Chrome:
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Google released Google Chrome version 72.0.3626.121 to address a single zero day (defined) vulnerability under active exploit. The vulnerability was a high severity use-after-free (defined) flaw in Chrome’s FileReader API (defined) which could have led to information disclosure of files stored on the same system as Chrome is installed.

Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 stacked small horizontal lines, sometimes called a “hamburger” button) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.

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Notepad++:
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Notepad++ 7.6.4 was released on the 6th of March resolving 8 security issues. This version follows another from January which resolved 7 other vulnerabilities. If you use Notepad++, please update to the newest version to benefit from these security fixes.

Notepad++ 7.6.6 was released to resolve a critical regression in 7.6.5 which caused Notepad++ to crash. Version 7.6.5 resolved a further 6 security vulnerabilities.

If you use Notepad++, please update to the newest version to benefit from these reliability and security fixes.

Thank you.

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Mozilla Firefox
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Update: 25th March 2019: As detailed in the Pwn2Own 2019 results post; Mozilla released a further update for Firefox and Firefox ESR bringing their version numbers to 66.0.1 and 60.6.1 respectively. Both updates resolve 2x critical CVEs. Please consider updating to these versions as soon as possible.

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In the latter half of March Mozilla issued updates for Firefox 66 and Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 60.6:

Firefox 66.0: Resolves 5x critical CVEs (defined), 7x high CVEs, 5x moderate CVEs and 4x low CVEs

Firefox 60.6: Resolves 4x critical critical CVEs, 4x high CVEs and 2x moderate CVEs

Firefox 66 introduces better reliability (since crashes have been reduced) and improved performance. In addition, smooth scrolling has been added. The blocking of websites automatically playing audio or video content is now also present. These and other features are discussed in more depth here and here.

Details of how to install updates for Firefox are here. If Firefox is your web browser of choice, if you have not already done so, please update it as soon as possible to benefit from the above changes.

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VMware:
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VMware issued 2 security advisories during March:
Security Advisory 1: Addresses 2x important severity CVEs in the following products:

VMware Player
VMware Workstation Pro

Security Advisory 2: Addresses 1x moderate severity CVE in the following products:

VMware Horizon

If you use the above VMware products, please review the security advisories and apply the necessary updates.

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Putty:
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Putty, the open source and highly popular SSH (defined) client for Windows, was updated to version 0.71 in mid-March. It contains 8 security fixes (see below). They are a result of the bug bounties awarded through the EU-Free and Open Source Software Auditing (EU-FOSSA) (discussed previously in this post). Version 0.71 is downloadable from here.

If you use Putty, please update it to version 0.71. Thank you.

Security vulnerabilities fixed:

• vuln-auth-prompt-spoofing: Authentication prompts can be spoofed by a malicious server
• vuln-chm-hijack: Potential malicious code execution via CHM hijacking
• vuln-fd-set-overflow: Buffer overflow in Unix PuTTY tools if server opens too many port forwardings
• vuln-rng-reuse: Cryptographic random numbers can occasionally be reused
• vuln-rsa-kex-integer-overflow: Integer overflow due to missing key-size check in RSA key exchange code
• vuln-terminal-dos-combining-chars: DoS if many Unicode combining characters are written to the terminal
• vuln-terminal-dos-combining-chars-double-width-gtk: DoS by terminal output involving combining characters, double-width text, an odd number of terminal columns, and GTK
• vuln-terminal-dos-one-column-cjk: DoS by terminal output if a CJK wide character is written to a 1-column-wide terminal

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Nvidia Geforce Experience Software:
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In late March , Nvidia released a security advisory for their Geforce Experience software for Windows. This update resolves 1 high severity vulnerabilities (as per their CVSS base scores). The necessary updates can be applied by opening Geforce Experience which will automatically updated it or the update can be obtained from here.

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GOG Galaxy
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Golden Old Games (GOG) has published an update for their popular game distribution platform GOG Galaxy. It resolves 2 critical vulnerabilities. Additionally, 2 high severity and 2x medium severity vulnerabilities were also resolved. These vulnerabilities are discussed in more detail in this Cisco Talos blog post and within this Kaspersky ThreatPost article. Please update GOG Galaxy to version 1.2.54.23 or later to resolve these vulnerabilities.

I don’t often post about vulnerabilities in gaming clients/gaming distribution clients but like any software; security updates can and are made available for them.

February 2019 Update Summary

Earlier today Microsoft made available 13 bulletins and 3 advisories resolving 74 vulnerabilities (more formally known as CVEs (defined)) respectively. As always more details are available from Microsoft’s monthly summary page.

Also today Adobe released scheduled updates for the products listed below addressing 75 CVEs in total:

Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 71x priority 2 CVEs resolved (43 of the 75 are Critical, the remainder are Important severity)

Adobe ColdFusion: 2x priority 2 CVEs resolved

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application: 1x priority 3 CVE resolved

Adobe Flash Player: 1x priority 2 CVE resolved

If you use the affected Adobe products; due to the public disclosure (defined) of CVE-2019-7089 as a zero day (defined) vulnerability, please install the Adobe Acrobat and Reader updates first followed by Flash Player and the remaining updates. I provide more detail on the zero day vulnerability in a separate post.

As we are accustomed to Microsoft’s updates come with a long list of Known Issues that will be resolved in future updates or for which workarounds are provided. They are listed below for your reference:

4345836
4471391
4471392
4483452
4486996
4487017
4487020
4487026
4487044
4487052

You can monitor the availability of security updates for most your software from the following websites (among others) or use one of the utilities presented on this page:

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US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

A further useful source of update related information is the Calendar of Updates.

News/announcements of updates in the categories of General Software, Security Software and Utilities are available on their website. The news/announcements are very timely and (almost always) contain useful direct download links as well as the changes/improvements made by those updates (where possible).

If you like and use it, please also consider supporting that entirely volunteer run website by donating.

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For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
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Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (multiple versions of Edge and IE affected)

Microsoft GDI+

Scripting Engine (CVE-2019-0590 , CVE-2019-0591 , CVE-2019-0593 , CVE-2019-0640  ,
CVE-2019-0642 , CVE-2019-0648 , CVE-2019-0649  , CVE-2019-0651 , CVE-2019-0652 , CVE-2019-0655 , CVE-2019-0658)

Windows DHCP

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft SharePoint and CVE-2019-0604

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Please install the remaining updates at your earliest convenience.

As usual; I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues. I have provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications below.

Thank you.

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Nvidia Graphics Drivers:
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8 security vulnerabilities with the most severe having a CVSS V3 (defined) base score of 8.8 have been resolved within Nvidia’s graphics card drivers (defined) in February. These vulnerabilities affect Linux FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows. The steps to install the drivers are detailed here (and here) for Ubuntu and here for Linux Mint. Windows install steps are located here. If you use affected Nvidia graphics card, please consider updating your drivers to the most recent available.

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7-Zip:
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In the 3rd week of February; 7-Zip version 19.00 was released. While it is not designated as a security update; the changes it contains appear to be security related. While 7-Zip is extremely popular as a standalone application; other software such as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, VMware Workstation and Directory Opus (among many others) all make use of 7-Zip. Directory Opus version 12.2.2 Beta includes version 19.00 of the 7-Zip DLL.

If you use these software applications or 7-Zip by itself, please update these installed applications to benefit from these improvements.

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Changes:
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– Encryption strength for 7z archives was increased:
the size of random initialization vector was increased from 64-bit to 128-bit, and the pseudo-random number generator was improved.
– Some bugs were fixed.
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If you are using the standalone version and it’s older than version 19, please consider updating it.

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Mozilla Firefox
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In mid-February Mozilla issued updates for Firefox 65 and Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) 60.5:

Firefox 65.0.1: Resolves 3x high CVEs (defined)

Firefox 60.5.1: Resolves 3x high CVEs

As always; details of how to install updates for Firefox are here. If Firefox is your web browser of choice, if you have not already done so, please update it as soon as possible to benefit from changes such as improvements to Netflix playback, color management on Apple macOS and resolving audio/video delays during WebRTC calls etc.

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Wireshark 3.0.0, 2.6.7 and 2.4.13
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v3.0.0: 0 security advisories (new features and benefits discussed here and here)

v2.6.7: 3 security advisories

v2.4.13: 3 security advisories

As per standard process Linux distributions can obtain this update using the operating systems standard package manager (if the latest version is not installed automatically using the package manager you can instead compile the source code (v3.0.0, v2.6.6 or v2.4.12). This forum thread and this forum thread may also be helpful to you with installing Wireshark on your Linux based system.

For Mac OS X and Windows, the update is available within the downloads section of the Wireshark website. In addition, a detailed FAQ for Wireshark is available here.

Note: from this post onwards, I will only report on the most recent (v3.0) and previous branches (v2.6) of Wireshark.

Thank you.

September 2018 Update Summary

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Update: 11th September 2018:
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Earlier today Microsoft and Adobe made available their scheduled updates. Microsoft resolved 61 vulnerabilities more formally known as CVEs (defined).

At the time of writing; there are known issues but with only the now commonly occurring Windows 7 NIC being an issue this month:

KB4457128

KB4457144

KB4458321

Further details are available in Microsoft’s update summary for September.

Adobe issued 2 updates today:

Adobe ColdFusion (priority 2, resolves 6x critical CVEs)
Adobe Flash (priority 2, resoles 1x CVE)

As per standard practice if you use any of the above Adobe software, please update it as soon as possible especially in the case of Flash. Updates for Google Chrome will be available shortly either via a browser update or their component updater.

You can monitor the availability of security updates for most your software from the following websites (among others) or use one of the utilities presented on this page:

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US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

A further useful source of update related information is the Calendar of Updates. News/announcements of updates in the categories of General Software, Security Software and Utilities are available on their website. The news/announcements are very timely and (almost always) contain useful direct download links as well as the changes/improvements made by those updates (where possible).

If you like and use it, please also consider supporting that entirely volunteer run website by donating.

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For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
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Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (multiple versions of Edge and IE affected)

Microsoft Hyper-V (affects Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 (including Windows RT 8.1) and their Server equivalents)

Windows Task Scheduler (relating to a previous blog post)

Security advisory for “FragmentSmack” CVE-2018-5391

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Please install the remaining updates at your earliest convenience.

As usual; I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues. I have provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications below.

Please find below summaries of other notable updates released this month.

Thank you.

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Original Post:
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In advance of further updates being released by Microsoft and Adobe this month I wish to provide details of notable updates made available so far. I will update this post as more updates are distributed.

Thank you.

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Mozilla Firefox:
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In early September Mozilla made available updated versions of Firefox:

Firefox 62: Resolves 1x critical CVE (defined), 3x high CVEs, 2x moderate CVEs, 3x low CVEs

Firefox ESR 60.2 (Extended Support Release): Resolves 1x critical CVE, 2x high CVEs, 2x moderate CVEs and 1x low CVE.

Further discussion of the other features introduced by Firefox 62 is available here. In the future Firefox will block multiple trackers which will boost privacy for it’s users. Future versions will implement these changes.

In-depth details of the security issues resolved by these updates are available in the links above. Details of how to install updates for Firefox are here. If Firefox is your web browser of choice, if you have not already done so, please update it as soon as possible to resolve these security issues.

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Google Chrome:
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Last week Google released version 69 (specifically version 69.0.3497.81) of Chrome celebrating Chrome’s 10th anniversary. This version not only incorporates fixes for 40 vulnerabilities but also includes many more improvements. Among them are an improved password manager/form filler and a change in how secured (encrypted) webpages are indicated.

Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 stacked small horizontal lines, sometimes called a “hamburger” button) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.

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VMware
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VMWare has issued a single security advisory so far in September:

Security advisory 1 (addresses 2 vulnerabilities of Low severity):

• AirWatch Agent for iOS (A/W Agent)
• VMware Content Locker for iOS (A/W Locker)

If you use the above VMware product, please review the security advisory and apply the necessary updates.

April 2018 Update Summary

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Update: 5th April 2018:
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On the 3rd of April, Microsoft released an out of band security update for the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine. Further details are available in this separate blog post.

Other updates made available by Microsoft for the Spectre Variant 2 vulnerability are:

kb4073119

kb4093112

If any of the above updates apply for your version of Windows, please install them. If the updates are already present or are not required; the installation will not proceed when you manually attempt it.

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Separately Microsoft have since issued an update, KB4099950 to resolve the issue detailed below affecting the network adapter on Windows 7.

The new update KB4099950 must be installed before KB4088875 and KB4088878 (I assume if this is not the case that KB4088875 and KB4088878 could be uninstalled first?)

If you were experiencing any of the following issues on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, please install the above update to resolve them:

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A new Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) that has default settings may replace the previous NIC and cause network issues.

Static IP address setting are lost.

These symptoms may occur on both physical computers and virtual machine that are running VMware.
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Thank you.

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Update: 1st April 2018:
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Microsoft have issued an out of band update for Windows 7 SP1 64 bit and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 64 bit to resolve a regression (an un-intentional coding error resulting in a previously working software feature no longer working, alternative definition here) which introduced an additional elevation of privilege (defined) security vulnerability in the kernel (defined) of these Windows version, please see my new post for further details.

This post has also been updated with further software releases (please see below).

If you have already checked for updates and are not seeing any being offered for your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 system, please ensure your anti-malware software is up to date. This article explains why this change was implemented by Microsoft. It also provides recommendations of how to resolve the issue of no updates being available. Windows 10 is not affected by this issue.

A known issue of a second network adapter appearing within Windows 7 has also been documented. If this occurs for you with March’s updates, this news article may be of assistance in resolving it. It is anticipated that Microsoft will resolve this issue in this month’s upcoming security updates.

Thank you.

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Original post:
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On Tuesday, 10th April Microsoft made available their scheduled security updates to resolve 63 vulnerabilities assigned to the same number of CVEs (defined). Microsoft have provided further details are provided within their Security Updates Guide.

There are 3 knowledge base articles detailing potential issues (some of which are pending resolutions) you may experience upon installing these updates. They are listed below for your reference:

4093112

4093118

4093108

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Alongside these updates; Adobe released updates for the following products:

Adobe ColdFusion (priority 2, 5x CVEs)

Adobe Digital Editions (priority 3, 2x CVEs)

Adobe Experience Manager (priority 3, 3x CVEs)

Adobe Flash Player v29.0.0.140 (priority 2, 6x CVEs)

Adobe InDesign CC (priority 3, 2x CVEs)

Adobe PhoneGap Push Plugin (priority 3, 1x CVE)

Non-Microsoft browsers should update automatically e.g. Google Chrome should release a browser update in the coming days or will use their component update feature. Microsoft issued a security advisory containing details of their updates

As always; you can monitor the availability of security updates for most your software from the following websites (among others) or use one of the utilities presented on this page (since Secunia PSI will be phased out on the 20th of April):
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US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) (please see the “Information on Security Updates” heading of the “Protecting Your PC” page):

https://www.us-cert.gov/

A further useful source of update related information is the Calendar of Updates. News/announcements of updates in the categories of General Software, Security Software and Utilities are available on their website. The news/announcements are very timely and (almost always) contain useful direct download links as well as the changes/improvements made by those updates (where possible).

If you like and use it, please also consider supporting that entirely volunteer run website by donating.

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For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below. A useful list of all CVEs for this month is present here:
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Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer (similar to last month multiple versions of Edge and IE affected with many of the CVEs affecting the Microsoft Scripting Engine))

Microsoft Graphics Component consisting of the following 6 CVEs:

CVE-2018-1009

CVE-2018-1010

CVE-2018-1012

CVE-2018-1013

CVE-2018-1015

CVE-2018-1016

Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 850 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability : described in more detail here.

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Separately AMD have issued microcode (defined) updates for Windows 10 Version 1709 to enhance the protection of their customer’s against variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715) of the Spectre vulnerability. Further details of these updates are available within these KB articles: KB4093112 and KB3073119

Please install the remaining updates at your earliest convenience.

As usual; I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues. I have provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications below.

Thank you.

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Apple Security Updates:
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In late April Apple released updates for Safari, macOS and iOS:

Apple iOS v11.3.1

Apple Safari v11.1

Apple macOS High Sierra v10.13.4

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Please see these links from Apple for advice on backing up your iPhone and iPad.

As always; further details of these updates are available on Apple’s dedicated security updates page.

For advice on how to install updates for Apple devices, please see the steps detailed at the end of this Sophos blog post as well as this link (from my “Protecting Your PC” page).

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7-Zip 18.05
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In late April; version 18.05 of 7-Zip was made available resolving one security vulnerability in it’s RAR packing code. Further details are provided in this linked to blog post.

Other highlights include the inclusion of ASLR on the 32 bit version and high entropy (HE)(defined here and here) ASLR (defined) on the 64 bit version. While the above blog post mentions HEASLR is not enabled, when I tested it with Process Explorer it was showing HEASLR as enabled. That blog post also describes how to add Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG) (defined) protection for 7-Zip on Windows 10. Version 18.01 and later also come with Data Execution Prevention (DEP)(defined here and here).

While 7-Zip is extremely popular as a standalone application; other software such as Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, VMware Workstation and Directory Opus (among many others) all make use of 7-Zip. If you use these software applications or 7-Zip by itself, please update these installed applications to benefit from the resolved vulnerability and the new mitigations.

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Wireshark 2.4.6 and 2.2.14
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v2.4.6: 10 security advisories

v2.2.14: 8 security advisories

The security advisory wnpa-sec-2018-24 applicable to both of the above versions resolves 10 memory leaks (defined).

As per standard process Linux distributions can obtain this update using the operating systems standard package manager (if the latest version is not installed automatically using the package manager you can instead compile the source code (v2.4.6) or v2.2.14). This forum thread and this forum thread may also be helpful to you with installing Wireshark on your Linux based system.

For Mac OS X and Windows, the update is available within the downloads section of the Wireshark website. In addition, a detailed FAQ for Wireshark is available here.

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Wireshark 2.6.0
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While this update is not listed as a security update; it is the latest version of Wireshark within the Stable release channel. The older 2.4.x version did not receive a further update. It is very likely version 2.6 will be required to receive future security updates. Further details are available in the release notes of version 2.6. If possible, please consider upgrading to this version in the near future.

Further installation tips are provided above (as per version 2.4.6 and 2.2.14).

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Oracle:
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Oracle issued updates to resolve 254 vulnerabilities. Further details and installation steps are available here. 14 vulnerabilities affect the Java runtime. 12 of these are remotely exploitable without an attacker needing to obtain a user’s username and password (their credentials).

If you use any of the Oracle products listed here, please install the appropriate security updates as soon as possible.

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OpenSSL
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In mid April; the OpenSSL Foundation issued updates for OpenSSL to address 1x low security vulnerability detailed in this security advisory. To resolve this please update your OpenSSL installations to 1.1.0i or 1.0.2p (as appropriate).

FTP mirrors to obtain the necessary downloads are available from here.

Downloadable Tarballs (compressed/packaged code made for distribution) are available from here.

It should also be possible to use the package manager of a Linux/Unix operating system to update your OpenSSL installation as mentioned within the section titled “Installing updates for Linux distributions” on the “Protecting Your PC” page of this blog.

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A Closer Look at CVE-2018-0950
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While Microsoft have addressed the vulnerability designated as CVE-2018-0950 (defined) this month; Will Dormann, a security researcher with the CERT Coordination Center has demonstrated further mitigations (defined) you may wish to take. These mitigations (listed at the end of his in-depth discussion) will better defend your system(s) against a variant of this vulnerability which still remains relatively easy for an attacker to exploit.

Thank you.