Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:12:05 +0000
It was a busy day yesterday, with Adobe issuing four emergency patches for their Flash Player, including one for a zero-day being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe has indicated that CVE-2018-5002 was discovered being used in limited, targeted attacks on Windows users in the wild. The attacks use Microsoft Office documents embedded with malicious Flash Player content.
Three of the four CVEs were found through our Zero Day Initiative:
CVE-2018-4945: Jihui Lu of Tencent KeenLab and willJ of Tencent PC Manager working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2018-5000: Anonymously reported through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2018-5001: Anonymously reported through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative
CVE-2018-5002: Independently identified and reported by the following organizations and individuals: Chenming Xu and Jason Jones of ICEBRG, Bai Haowen, Zeng Haitao and Huang Chaowen of 360 Threat Intelligence Center of 360 Enterprise Security Group, and Yang Kang, Hu Jiang, Zhang Qing, and Jin Quan of Qihoo 360 Core Security (@360CoreSec), Tencent PC Manager
We issued an out-of-band Digital Vaccine (DV) package to address these vulnerabilities:
There are 16 new zero-day filters covering 10 vendors in this week’s Digital Vaccine (DV) package. A number of existing filters in this week’s DV package were modified to update the filter description, update specific filter deployment recommendation, increase filter accuracy and/or optimize performance. You can browse the list of published advisories and upcoming advisories on the Zero Day Initiative website. You can also follow the Zero Day Initiative on Twitter @thezdi and on their blog.
Adobe (1)
31950: HTTP: Adobe Acrobat Pro DC ImageConversion EMF Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Vulnerability (ZDI-18-213)
