Gotham Security Daily Threat Alerts

By Nancy Rand
Posted in Security
On May 13, 2016

May 12, SecurityWeek – (International) Google patches more high risk vulnerabilities in Chrome 50. Google released a round of security patches for Chrome 50 addressing five vulnerabilities, three of which were deemed high severity, and include a same origin bypass issue in the Document Object Model (DOM), a same bypass bug in Blink V8 bindings, and a buffer overflow flaw in V8. A directory traversal flaw using the file scheme on Android, and a race condition bug in loader were also patched, among other vulnerabilities. Source

May 11, SecurityWeek – (International) SAP patches critical vulnerabilities in Enterprise products. SAP released 10 Security Patch Day Notes and 11 Support Package Notes fixing 10 vulnerabilities , mainly in its NetWevwer Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) platform and Java, including critical flaws in Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) XPServer, Crystal Reports for Enterprise, and Predictive Analytics which could allow an attacker to potentially execute commands remotely without authorization, obtain critical technical and business-related information, or gain unauthorized access and perform actions in the system. Source

Reprinted from the USDHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report

Nancy Rand

Nancy Rand

Nancy has more than 20 years’ experience in information technology and security, solving business issues and implementing best-practice solutions that support organizational objectives. Her expertise includes leveraging, optimizing, and implementing diverse technology platforms, and management of large-scale technology projects.