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October 1, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Issues in Foxit PDF Reader

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Overview Cisco Talos is disclosing eightteen vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Reader, a popular free program for viewing, creating and editing PDF documents. It is commonly used as an...

July 7, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2017-0311,0319,0321 – Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Poppler PDF l …

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Vulnerability discovered by Marcin Noga, Lilith Wyatt and Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos. Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the freedesktop.org Poppler PDF library. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to gain full control over the victim’s machine. If an attacker builds a specially crafted PDF document and the victim opens it, the […]

January 23, 2014

SECURITY

Fiesta Exploit Pack is No Party for Drive-By Victims

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This post was also authored by Andrew Tsonchev and Steven Poulson. Update 2014-05-26: Thank you to Fox-IT for providing the Fiesta logo image. We updated the caption to accurately reflect image attribution. Cisco’s Cloud Web Security (CWS) service provides TRAC researchers with a constant fire hose of malicious insight and now that we are collaborating with Sourcefire’s Vulnerability Research […]