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It's 2014 and You Can Still Pwn a Box Using a Word File, a TTF Font, or Flash

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday October 16 2014, @06:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the separation-of-concerns dept.

gewg_ writes:

Shaun Nichols at El Reg notes the latest Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has today patched two dozen CVE-classified security vulnerabilities in its software. People are urged to install them as soon as possible.

The US giant said the October edition of Patch Tuesday includes three critical fixes to address flaws in Internet Explorer, the .NET Framework and Windows kernel-mode driver.
[...]
MS14-061 - An 'important' rated vulnerability (CVE-2014-4117) in Office that allows an attacker to use malicious Word files to achieve remote code execution at the level of the logged-in user. The flaw can be mitigated by limiting the access rights of user accounts. The flaw is also present in Office for Mac. The discovery is credited to 35 Labs via the HP Zero Day Initiative.
[...]
And Adobe's software is still riddled with holes.

Adobe, meanwhile, has released its own monthly patch update. That patch will include a fix for three remote-code execution flaws in Flash Player for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Adobe is also patching a trio of flaws in ColdFusion allowing elevation of privilege and security control bypass.

[Update 1]: Corrected title as these vulnerabilities are not restricted to Windows.

[Update 2]: There are also reports of remote code execution and privilege elevation vulnerabilities across Solaris, Linux and Windows, via Java and Oracle: http://threatpost.com/java-reflection-api-woes-resurface-in-latest-oracle-patches/108847.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday October 16 2014, @06:45PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday October 16 2014, @06:45PM (#106749) Journal

    Just common wisdom ;-)

    Any reports on other systems?

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday October 16 2014, @10:45PM

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday October 16 2014, @10:45PM (#106839) Journal
    Yeah, actually, note the corrections to the article.

    Java does run on (some) linux systems, although it is not Free.

    Libre systems are unaffected.

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    • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday October 16 2014, @11:45PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday October 16 2014, @11:45PM (#106843)

      I believe there are open and free Java implementations for Linux (and others).

      • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday October 16 2014, @11:49PM

        by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday October 16 2014, @11:49PM (#106846)

        I should add that these are not necessarily affected by the same implementation specific bug though.

    • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday October 17 2014, @03:51PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday October 17 2014, @03:51PM (#107062) Homepage Journal

      Java isn't even on my Windows 7 notebook, let alone the Linux tower. Microsoft Word? I use Open Office. Flash? I only allow it on a very limited number of sites.

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