Technology companies are starting to respond to a new Wi-Fi exploit affecting Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability all modern Wi-Fi networks using WPA or WPA2 encryption . The security vulnerabilities allow attackers to read Wi-Fi traffic between devices and wireless access points , and in some cases even modify it to inject malware into websites . Security researchers claim Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability devices running macOS , Windows , iOS , Android , and Linux will be affected Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by the vulnerabilities . Microsoft says it has already fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the problem for customers running supported versions of Windows . “ We have released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a security update to address Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability this issue , ” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge . “ Customers who apply Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the update , or have automatic updates enabled , will be protected . We continue to encourage customers to turn on automatic updates to help ensure they are protected. ” Microsoft says the Windows updates released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability on October 10th protect customers , and the company “ withheld disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability until other vendors could develop and release Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability updates. ” While it looks like Android and Linux devices are affected Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by the worst part of the vulnerabilities , allowing attackers to manipulate websites , Google has promised Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a fix for affected devices “ in the coming weeks. ” Google ’ s own Pixel devices will be the first to receive Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability fixes with security patch level of November 6 , 2017 , but most other handsets are still well behind even the latest updates . Security researchers claim Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability 41 percent of Android devices are vulnerable Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability to an “ exceptionally devastating ” variant of the Wi-Fi attack that involves manipulating traffic , and it will take time to patch Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability older devices . The Verge has reached out to a variety of Android phone makers to clarify when security patches will reach Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability handsets , and we ’ ll update you accordingly . At the time of writing , Apple has not yet clarified Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability whether the latest versions of macOS and iOS are vulnerable Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . The Wi-Fi Alliance , a network of companies responsible for Wi-Fi , has responded to the disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability of the vulnerabilities . “ This issue can be resolved Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability through straightforward software updates , and the Wi-Fi industry , including major platform providers , has already started deploying Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability patches to Wi-Fi users , ” says a Wi-Fi Alliance spokesperson . “ Users can expect all their Wi-Fi devices , whether patched or unpatched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , to continue working well together. ” Apple also confirmed to both The Verge and AppleInsider that the vulnerability is patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in a beta version of the current operating systems . The fix should go public Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in a few weeks , so iOS and macOS devices are n't in the clear just yet . AppleInsider also reports that AirPort hardware , including the Time Machine , AirPort Extreme base station , and AirPort Express do not have a patch . The publication 's source also was n't sure if one was in the works .

Oracle is advising customers to update Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability their database software following the discovery Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability and disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability of a critical remote code execution vulnerability . The flaw , dubbed CVE-2018-3110 was given a CVSS base score of 9.9 ( out of 10 ) and Oracle warns Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that successful exploit of the bug `` can result in complete compromise of the Oracle Database and shell access to the underlying server . '' `` Due to the nature of this vulnerability , Oracle strongly recommends that customers take action without delay , '' Oracle says . Vulnerable versions of Database Server include 11.2.0.4 , 12.1.0.2 , 12.2.0.1 , and 18 . Admins are advised to install Oracle 's update as soon as possible . No credit was given for discovery or reporting . The flaw itself is found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in the JavaVM component of Oracle Database Server and is not considered a remote code exploit flaw , as it requires the attacker have a connection to the server via Oracle Net , the protocol Oracle servers use to connect with client applications . Other than that , however , there is little else required for a successful attack that gives complete control over the host server . The Oracle patch will only pile on to what is going to be a busy week for IT departments and administrators . In addition to this fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , Microsoft is releasing Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability its monthly Patch Tuesday security update for Windows , Office , and Internet Explorer/Edge today , and Adobe has posted Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability fixes for security holes in Flash Player , Acrobat/Reader , Creative Cloud , and Experience manager . Our advice is to keep a pot of coffee handy and reserve a table at the pub for when this is all over with .

The chipmaker says the patches will arrive Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability within a few weeks and AMD device owners shouldn ’ t worry about the reported flaws Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . AMD is addressing Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability several vulnerabilities discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in its Ryzen and EPYC chips , and rolling out Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability updates for millions of devices `` in the coming weeks . '' The 13 vulnerabilities came to public Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability attention clouded in controversy . The security company CTS Labs gave AMD less than 24 hours notice before releasing the information to the public . Standard vulnerability disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability practices call for giving companies at least 90 days ' notice so they can fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the flaws before researchers go public Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability and hackers can start causing trouble . Had CTS Labs given AMD that same courtesy , the issues would have been addressed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability within a week of the notification . `` Each of the issues cited can be mitigated Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability through firmware patches and a standard BIOS update , which we plan to release Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in the coming weeks , '' said Sarah Youngbauer , AMD 's senior spokeswoman . `` We believe this provides a good example of why the more standard 90-day notification window for such notifications exist . '' In the original vulnerability report Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability , CTS Labs said that it would take `` several months '' to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability the issues and that some hardware flaws `` cannot be fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . '' AMD disagreed with that timeline , and said it would provide more information in several weeks . The chipmaker said the issues were not with its hardware , but with firmware , or software that 's embedded in hardware . It 'll be sending Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability fixes for all 13 vulnerabilities through patches and BIOS updates . According to AMD 's technical assessment , each of the flaws required administrative access . `` Any attacker gaining unauthorized administrative access would have a wide range of attacks at their disposal well beyond the exploits identified in this research , '' Papermaster said in a statement . Critics also took issue with another aspect of the CTS Labs report , pointing out the legal disclaimer on the company 's website : `` You are advised that we may have , either directly or indirectly , an economic interest in the performance of the securities of the companies whose products are the subject of our reports . '' Last Wednesday , CTS Labs ' chief financial officer and co-founder , Yaron Luk-Zilberman , a former hedge fund manager , said it did n't have `` any investment ( long or short ) in Intel or AMD . ''

When it comes to fixing Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability security vulnerabilities , it should be clear by now that words only count when they ’ re swiftly followed by actions . Ask peripherals maker Logitech , which last week became the latest company to find itself on the receiving end of an embarrassing public flaw disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by Google ’ s Project Zero team . In September , Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy installed Logitech ’ s Options application for Windows ( available separately for Mac ) , used to customise buttons on the company ’ s keyboards , mice , and touchpads . Pretty quickly , he noticed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability some problems with the application ’ s design , starting with the fact that it… opens a websocket server on port 10134 that any website can connect to , and has no origin checking at all . Websockets simplify the communication between a client and a server and , unlike HTTP , make it possible for servers to send data to clients without first being asked to , which creates additional security risks . The only “ authentication ” is that you have to provide a pid [ process ID ] of a process owned by your user , but you get unlimited guesses so you can bruteforce it in microseconds . Ormandy claimed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability this might offer attackers a way of executing keystroke injection to take control of a Windows PC running the software . Within days of contacting Logitech , Ormandy says he had a meeting to discuss Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the vulnerability with its engineers on 18 September , who assured him they understood the problem . A new version of Options appeared Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability on 1 October without a fix , although in fairness to Logitech that was probably too soon for any patch for Ormandy ’ s vulnerability to be included Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . As anyone who ’ s followed Google ’ s Project Zero will know , it operates a strict 90-day deadline for a company to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability vulnerabilities disclosed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability to it , after which they are made public Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . I would recommend disabling Logitech Options until an update is available Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . Clearly , the disclosure got things moving – on 13 December , Logitech suddenly updated Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability Options to version 7.00.564 ( 7.00.554 for Mac ) . The company also tweeted that the flaws had been fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , confirmed by Ormandy on the same day . Logitech aren ’ t the first to feel Project Zero ’ s guillotine on their neck . Earlier in 2018 , Microsoft ran into a similar issue over a vulnerability found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by Project Zero in the Edge browser . Times have changed – vendors have to move from learning about a bug to releasing Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a fix much more rapidly than they used to .

A security flaw affecting Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice has been fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in one of the two open-source office suites . The other still appears to be vulnerable Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . Before attempting to guess which app has yet to be patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , consider that Apache OpenOffice for years has struggled attract more contributors . And though the number of people adding code to the project has grown since last we checked , the project missed its recent January report to the Apache Foundation . The upshot is : security holes are n't being patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , it seems . The issue , identified Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by security researcher Alex Inführ , is that there 's a way to achieve remote code execution by triggering an event embedded in an ODT ( OpenDocument Text ) file . In a blog post on Friday , Inführ explains Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability how he found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a way to abuse the OpenDocument scripting framework by adding an onmouseover event to a link in an ODT file . The event , which fires when a user 's mouse pointer moves over the link , can traverse local directories and execute a local Python script . After trying various approaches to exploit the vulnerability , Inführ found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that he could rig the event to call a specific function within a Python file included with the Python interpreter that ships with LibreOffice . `` For the solution I looked into the Python parsing code a little more in depth and discovered that it is not only possible to specify the function you want to call inside a python script , but it is possible to pass parameters as well , '' he said . The exploit was tested on Windows , and should work on Linux , too . Inführ says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability he reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the bug on October 18 and it was fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in LibreOffice by the end of the month . RedHat assigned Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability it CVE-2018-16858 in mid-November and gave Inführ a disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability date of January 31 , 2019 . When he published Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability on February 1 , in conjunction with the LibreOffice fix notification , OpenOffice still had not been patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . Inführ says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability he reconfirmed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that he could go ahead with disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability even though OpenOffice 4.16 has yet to be fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . His proof-of-concept exploit does n't work with OpenOffice out-of-the-box because the software does n't allow parameters to be passed in the same way as the unpatched version of LibreOffice did . However , he says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that the path traversal issue can still be abused to execute a local Python file and cause further mischief and damage . We 're imagining specifically targeted netizens being tricked Attack.Phishing into opening a ZIP file , unpacking an ODT and Python script , and then the ODT document attempting to execute the Python script when the victim rolls their mouse over a link , for instance . The Register tried to reach two OpenOffice contributors to find out what 's going on . We 've not heard back . According to Inführ , OpenOffice users can mitigate the risk by removing or renaming the pythonscript.py file in the installation folder .

A security flaw affecting Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice has been fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in one of the two open-source office suites . The other still appears to be vulnerable Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . Before attempting to guess which app has yet to be patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , consider that Apache OpenOffice for years has struggled attract more contributors . And though the number of people adding code to the project has grown since last we checked , the project missed its recent January report to the Apache Foundation . The upshot is : security holes are n't being patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability , it seems . The issue , identified Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by security researcher Alex Inführ , is that there 's a way to achieve remote code execution by triggering an event embedded in an ODT ( OpenDocument Text ) file . In a blog post on Friday , Inführ explains Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability how he found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a way to abuse the OpenDocument scripting framework by adding an onmouseover event to a link in an ODT file . The event , which fires when a user 's mouse pointer moves over the link , can traverse local directories and execute a local Python script . After trying various approaches to exploit the vulnerability , Inführ found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that he could rig the event to call a specific function within a Python file included with the Python interpreter that ships with LibreOffice . `` For the solution I looked into the Python parsing code a little more in depth and discovered that it is not only possible to specify the function you want to call inside a python script , but it is possible to pass parameters as well , '' he said . The exploit was tested on Windows , and should work on Linux , too . Inführ says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability he reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the bug on October 18 and it was fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability in LibreOffice by the end of the month . RedHat assigned Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability it CVE-2018-16858 in mid-November and gave Inführ a disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability date of January 31 , 2019 . When he published Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability on February 1 , in conjunction with the LibreOffice fix notification , OpenOffice still had not been patched Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . Inführ says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability he reconfirmed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that he could go ahead with disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability even though OpenOffice 4.16 has yet to be fixed Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability . His proof-of-concept exploit does n't work with OpenOffice out-of-the-box because the software does n't allow parameters to be passed in the same way as the unpatched version of LibreOffice did . However , he says Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that the path traversal issue can still be abused to execute a local Python file and cause further mischief and damage . We 're imagining specifically targeted netizens being tricked Attack.Phishing into opening a ZIP file , unpacking an ODT and Python script , and then the ODT document attempting to execute the Python script when the victim rolls their mouse over a link , for instance . The Register tried to reach two OpenOffice contributors to find out what 's going on . We 've not heard back . According to Inführ , OpenOffice users can mitigate the risk by removing or renaming the pythonscript.py file in the installation folder .

A generic wireless camera manufactured by a Chinese company and sold around the world under different names and brands can be easily hijacked and/or roped into a botnet . The flaw that allows this to happen is found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability in a custom version of GoAhead , a lightweight embedded web server that has been fitted into the devices . This and other vulnerabilities have been found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by security researcher Pierre Kim , who tested one of the branded cameras – the Wireless IP Camera ( P2P ) WIFICAM . The extensive list of devices affected by Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability the flaw in the custom embedded web server can be found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability here , and includes 1250+ camera models from over 300 vendors , including D-Link , Foscam , Logitech , Netcam , and Polaroid . “ This vulnerability allows an attacker to steal credentials , ftp accounts and smtp accounts ( email ) , ” Kim noted Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . He also shared Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability a PoC exploit that leverages the flaw to allow an attacker to achieve root shell on the device . Other vulnerabilities present Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability include a RTSP server running on the camera ’ s TCP 10554 port , which can be accessed without authentication , allowing attackers to watch what the camera streams . There is also a “ cloud ” functionality that is on by default , through which the camera can be managed via a mobile Android app . The connection between the two is established through UDP , and will be automatically established to any app that “ asks ” if a particular camera is online . Effectively , the attacker just needs to know the serial number of the device . The established UDP tunnel can also be used by the attacker to dump the camera ’ s configuration file in cleartext , or to bruteforce credentials . “ The UDP tunnel between the attacker and the camera is established even if the attacker doesn ’ t know the credentials , ” Kim noted . “ It ’ s useful to note the tunnel bypasses NAT and firewall , allowing the attacker to reach internal cameras ( if they are connected to the Internet ) and to bruteforce credentials . Then , the attacker can just try to bruteforce credentials of the camera ” . Kim advises owners of these devices to disconnect them from the Internet . A simple search with Shodan revealed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that there are 185,000+ vulnerable cameras out there , ready to be hijacked . The vulnerabilities are not in GoAhead , but the custom version of the web server developed by the Chinese OEM vendor , so EmbedThis – the company that develops GoAhead – can do nothing to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability this . Interestingly enough , SecuriTeam revealed Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability today the existence of an arbitrary file content disclosure Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability vulnerability affecting Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability older versions of the GoAhead web server . Discovered Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by independent security researcher Istvan Toth , the vulnerability can be triggered by sending a malformed request to the web server , and it will disclose device credentials to the attacker in clear text . “ The GoAhead web server is present on multiple embedded devices , from IP cameras to printers and other embedded devices , ” SecuriTeam explained , and urged owners to remove the device from the network , “ or at the very least not allow access to the web interface to anyone beside a very strict IP address range ”