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Writer. Father. Husband. Blogger. History buff. Heavy Metal fanatic. Rebellious Catholic. Frequent traveler. In his day job, Brenner writes about threats to Internet security as seen from his vantage point as Senior Security Tech Writer at Akamai Technologies research center. He also blogs about the wider security industry at Liquidmatrix.org and writes about mental health issues at theocddiaries.com. Opinions are his own.
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CVE-2020-8904
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-12
An arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability in the trusted memory of Asylo exists in versions prior to 0.6.0. As the ecall_restore function fails to validate the range of the output_len pointer, an attacker can manipulate the tmp_output_len value and write to an arbitrary location in the trusted (en...
CVE-2020-8905
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-12
A buffer length validation vulnerability in Asylo versions prior to 0.6.0 allows an attacker to read data they should not have access to. The 'enc_untrusted_recvfrom' function generates a return value which is deserialized by 'MessageReader', and copied into three different 'extents'. The length of ...
CVE-2020-12106
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-12
The Web portal of the WiFi module of VPNCrypt M10 2.6.5 allows unauthenticated users to send HTTP POST request to several critical Administrative functions such as, changing credentials of the Administrator account or connect the product to a rogue access point.
CVE-2020-12107
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-12
The Web portal of the WiFi module of VPNCrypt M10 2.6.5 allows command injection via a text field, which allow full control over this module's Operating System.
CVE-2020-7374
PUBLISHED: 2020-08-12
Documalis Free PDF Editor version 5.7.2.26 and Documalis Free PDF Scanner version 5.7.2.122 do not appropriately validate the contents of JPEG images contained within a PDF. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to trigger a buffer overflow on the stack and gain remote code execution as the user ...