Adobe on Tuesday released a new Shockwave Player version to address a “critical” vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of an affected system. The vulnerability affects Shockwave Player 11.5.0.596 and all earlier versions running on the Windows platform. Adobe recommended users install the updated version, 11.5.0.600. The US-CERT also encouraged users to upgrade. — AM
Included in the exposed dataset labeled "PDL" were individuals' full names, email addresses, phone numbers, location data, professional summaries, and skills, as well as education and employment histories.
Attackers could leverage the issue — which impacts Nexus 3000, 7000, and 9000 series switches with vulnerable NX-OS versions with DHCPv6 activated and are in standalone NX-OS mode — to facilitate continuous crashes of the dhcp_snoop process and a denial-of-service condition.
Higher rewards of up to $250,000 will be given by Google for the discovery of memory corruption flaws in the Chrome browser shown to achieve remote code execution using a non-sandboxed process as part of a more robust vulnerability reward program.