SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
Title: Microsoft discloses 44 vulnerabilities as part of Patch Tuesday, lowest in two years
Description: Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 44 vulnerabilities in the company’s firmware and software. This is the fewest amount of vulnerabilities Microsoft has patched in a month in more than two years. There are only nine critical vulnerabilities included in this release, and the remainder is “important.” The most serious of the issues is CVE-2021-26424 a remote code executing vulnerability which exists in the Windows TCP/IP protocol implementation. An attacker could remotely trigger this vulnerability from a Hyper-V guest by sending a specially crafted TCP/IP packet to a host utilizing the TCP/IP protocol stack. This raises the possibility of a malicious program running in a virtual machine compromising the host environment.
Reference: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2021/08/microsoft-patch-tuesday-for-august-2021.html
Snort SIDs: 57997 – 57999, 58003
Title: Multiple vulnerabilities in AT&T Labs’ Xmill utility
Description: Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in AT&T Labs’ Xmill utility. An attacker could take advantage of these issues to carry out a variety of malicious actions, including corrupting the application’s memory and gaining the ability to execute remote code. Xmill and Xdemill are utilities that are purpose-built for XML compression and decompression, respectively. These utilities claim to be roughly two times more efficient at compressing XML than other compression methods. As of publishing, AT&T Labs is no longer supporting this software and, therefore, will not be issuing any patches. The software, released in 1999, can still be found in modern software suites, such as Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure Control Expert. Schneider is working to fix issues directly affecting their products.
Reference: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2021/08/vuln-spotlight-att.html
Snort SIDs: 57503 - 57508