Google Pushes Rust in Legacy Firmware to Tackle Memory Safety Flaws

Google’s adoption of memory safe programming languages now includes the deployment of Rust in legacy low-level firmware codebases.
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Memory corruption vulnerabilities in Suricata and FreeRDP

While pentesting KasperskyOS-based Thin Client and IoT Secure Gateway, we found several vulnerabilities in the Suricata and FreeRDP open-source projects. We shared details on these vulnerabilities with the community along with our fuzzer. Continue reading Memory corruption vulnerabilities in Suricata and FreeRDP

US Gov Says Software Measurability is ‘Hardest Problem to Solve’

White House calls for the “timely, complete, and consistent” publication of CVE and CWE data to help solve the security metrics problem.
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Adobe Patches Code Execution Flaws in Substance 3D Stager

Patch Tuesday: Adobe patches six security flaws in the Substance 3D Stager product and warned of code execution risks on Windows and macOS.
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Critical SOCKS5 Vulnerability in cURL Puts Enterprise Systems at Risk

Flaw poses a direct threat to the SOCKS5 proxy handshake process in cURL and can be exploited remotely in some non-standard configurations.
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Mozilla Firefox 73 Browser Update Fixes High-Severity RCE Bugs

The release of Firefox 73 fixed high-severity memory safety bugs that could cause arbitrary code execution and missing bounds check that could enable memory corruption. Continue reading Mozilla Firefox 73 Browser Update Fixes High-Severity RCE Bugs