[German]Today again an overview of security issues in IT. It's about a data leak at a startup that does payment processing, about weaknesses in smart home and compromised apps up to a hacked ad server.
[German]The Windows version of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility client has a vulnerability in it's auto update, that can be misused for privilege escalation. A patch is available.
[German]Security researchers have found two 0-day exploits in virtually all iOS versions (iOS 6 through 13) that allow remote code execution (RCE) via mail. The vulnerabilities are likely to be actively exploited.
[German]As of April 22, 2020, Microsoft has released a cumulative update (KB4558244) for the Windows 10 version 2004 for insiders in the slow ring. This update raises the build to 19041.208. It fixes an issue that prevents NPLogonNotify API notifications from being sent from the Credential Provider Framework. The announcement was published in the Windows Blog.
[German]ACROS Security has released a micropatch for the memory corruption vulnerability CVE-2020-0687 in TTF fonts for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (without ESU).
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[English]On April 22, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19613.1000 (20H2 development branch) for insiders in the Fast Ring. Microsoft describes in the Windows Blog the new features, bug fixes and known issues of this build.
[German]Security researchers have just revealed four unpatched vulnerabilities in IBM Data Risk Manager. The vulnerabilities were reported to IBM, but IBM rejected the report due to lack of formal requirements. Three vulnerabilities are considered critical.
[German]Google released the update to Chrome 81.0.4044.122 on April 21, 2020. This is an unscheduled security update which closes several (critical) vulnerabilities.
[German]Microsoft has published Security Advisories for a critical RCE vulnerability (CVE-2020-0905) in Microsofts Dynamics Business Central. And there are security advisories for an update to the Autodesk FBX Library and for an OpenSSL Remote Denial of Service vulnerability.
Brief information for users of Sophos UTM. In mid-April 2020, in the article Stop: Don't install Sophos UTM 9.703 Firmware, I reported that the firmware update was pulled due to issues. Users should not install this update. Sophos has updated now it's advisory and acknowledged the errors. A revised firmware is now in tests – if that shows no problems, a revised version of the firmware will be available this week. I have added details in the linked article. Thanks to Thorsten for pointing this out.
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