Patching in Review – Week 39
Good news, everyone! The world of security is alive and well with new vulnerabilities remediated every day. Alongside two security releases this week, Microsoft has re-released two of their mid-month non-security patches.
Dark Reading published an article this week covering a new rootkit type found in the wild. ESET discovered the malware, titled LoJax, installed within a system’s firmware, making it the first UEFI rootkit ever discovered in the wild. Considering this, the necessity around using hardware-level measures, such as Secure Boot, just became much more critical.
Security Releases
The star of the show this week is another huge release by Foxit with a potential total of 123 vulnerabilities! Currently, thirty of these have a CVE assigned, with the other 93 cataloged within Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative. Each ZDI will be published on their database with a corresponding CVE, so the severity of the patch could increase with time.
Further details are available on Foxit’s Security Bulletins.
Late last Friday, Mozilla released an update for both Firefox and Firefox ESR. Both updates share CVE-2018-12385 where an attacker could write data to a system’s local cache in conjunction with another vulnerability. Firefox ESR comes in with an additional low severity CVE that was previously remediated in the higher branch.
Here are the release notes for both branches:
Windows 10 Non-Security Re-Releases
This week, Microsoft unexpectedly re-released their non-security updates for Windows 10 on the 1709 (KB4457136) and 1803 (KB4458469) branches. Each patch has had its minor version incremented with an addition to the update notes stating that each re-release occurred due to a missing solution. If either of the patches below has been distributed to your endpoints, make sure to deploy this update as soon as possible.
Third-Party Updates
These updates might not have CVEs, but they may still have helpful stability fixes as well as undisclosed security fixes. These are the updates we released in our content for the week:
Software Title |
Ivanti ID |
Ivanti KB |
CDBurnerXP 4.5.8.7035 |
CDBXP-046 |
QCDBXP4587035 |
DropBox 58.4.92 |
DROPBOX-093 |
QDROPBOX58492 |
Evernote 6.15.3.7881 |
ENOT-011 |
QENOT61537881 |
GoodSync 10.9.9 |
GOODSYNC-095 |
QGS1099 |
GoToMeeting 8.34.1 |
GOTOM-050 |
QGTM8341 |
LibreOffice 6.1.2.1 |
LIBRE-102 |
QLIBRE612 |
Opera 56.0.3051.31 |
OPERA-184 |
QOP560305131 |
Plex Media Server 1.13.8.5395 |
PLXS-026 |
QPLXS11385395 |
Skype 8.31.0.92 |
SKYPE-144 |
QSKY831092 |
Snagit 2018.2.2 |
SNAG-019 |
QSNAG1822 |
VMware Workstation 15.0.0 Player |
VMWP-038 |
QVMWP1500 |
VMware Workstation 15.0.0 Pro |
VMWW-014 |
QVMWW1500 |
Webex Productivity Tools 33.0.4.79 |
WPT-023 |
QWPT330479 |
Zoom Client 4.1.33259 |
ZOOM-011 |
QZOOM4133259 |
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- Patching in Review – Week 32
- Patching in Review – Week 31
- Patching in Review – Week 30
- Patching in Review – Week 29
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- Patching in Review – Week 26
- Patching in Review – Week 25
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