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Today is Microsoft's December 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited bug, and a total of 49 flaws. Six of the 49 vulnerabilities fixed in today's update are classified as 'Critical' as they allow remote code execution, one of the most severe types of vulnerabilities.
Citrix strongly urges admins to apply security updates for an 'Critical' zero-day vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway that is actively exploited by state-sponsored hackers to gain access to corporate networks. Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway version 13.1 are not affected by CVE-2022-27518, so upgrading to it solves the security problem.
An unauthenticated remote code execution flaw is being leveraged by a Chinese state-sponsored group to compromise Citrix Application Delivery Controller deployments, the US National Security Agency has warned. "Targeting Citrix ADCs can facilitate illegitimate access to targeted organizations by bypassing normal authentication controls."
Rackspace Hosted Exchange outage was caused by ransomwareRackspace has finally confirmed the cause of the security incident that resulted in an ongoing outage of its Hosted Exchange service: it's ransomware. Kali Linux 2022.4 released: Kali NetHunter Pro, desktop updates and new toolsOffensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.4, the latest version of its popular penetration testing and digital forensics platform.
Microsoft wrapped up a lot of 'loose ends' last month with their November set of updates, but there is still some work to do before the end-of-year holiday season. Let's hope that Microsoft provides some comprehensive updates this month that can fine tune all these nagging stability and connectivity issues.
The flaw was patched as an actively exploited zero-day bug in the Google Chrome web browser on Friday for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. In a security advisory published right before the weekend, Google said it "Is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2022-4262 exists in the wild."
Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine.
Google on Thursday released software updates to address yet another zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group has been credited with reporting the flaw on November 22, 2022.
A set of five exploitable vulnerabilities in Arm's Mali GPU driver remain unfixed months after the chip maker patched them, leaving potentially millions of Android devices exposed to attacks. The vulnerability impacts Arm Mali GPU kernel drivers Valhall r29p0 to r38p0.
No sooner had we stopped to catch our breath after reviewing the latest 62 patches dropped by Microsoft on Patch Tuesday. Neither bug is reported with Apple's typical zero-day wording along the lines that the company "Is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited", so there's no suggestion that these bugs are zero-days, at least inside Apple's ecosystem.