Foxit Software has released a new version (3.3) of its alternative PDF reader to contain a feature that prevents users from launching malicious executables buried in PDF files. The functionality, known as Secure Trust Manager, "enables users to allow or deny unauthorized actions and data transmission, including URL connection, attachments PDF actions, and JavaScript functions; efficiently avoiding the attack from malicious contents and viruses." The addition arrives after Adobe last month acknowledged that a design flaw in the "/Launch" function of Adobe Reader could be exploited by an attacker to launch scripts or .exe files embedded in PDF files. — DK
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.