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I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language (SSPL) group, which explores safe programming languages as a proactive measure against memory-safety related vulnerabilities. This blog post describes the project that I have been working on under the mentorship of the SSPL team.

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the JavaScript engine of Foxit Software's Foxit PDF Reader, version 9.4.1.16828. A specially crafted PDF document can trigger an out-of-memory condition which isn't handled properly, resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker needs to trick the user to open the malicious file to trigger this vulnerability. If the browser plugin extension is enabled, visiting a malicious site can also trigger the vulnerability.

Azure IoT Edge is an open source, cross platform software project from the Azure IoT team at Microsoft that seeks to solve the problem of managing distribution of compute to the edge of your on-premise network from the cloud. This post explains some of the rationale behind our choice of Rust as the implementation programming language for the Security Daemon component in the product.

Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.

ffjpeg before 2019-08-21 has a heap-based buffer overflow in jfif_load() at jfif.c.

audio_sample_entry_AddBox() at isomedia/box_code_base.c in GPAC 0.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted file.

AVC_DuplicateConfig() at isomedia/avc_ext.c in GPAC 0.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file. There is "cfg_new->AVCLevelIndication = cfg->AVCLevelIndication;" but cfg could be NULL.

TELESTAR Bobs Rock Radio, Dabman D10, Dabman i30 Stereo, Imperial i110, Imperial i150, Imperial i200, Imperial i200-cd, Imperial i400, Imperial i450, Imperial i500-bt, and Imperial i600 TN81HH96-g102h-g102 devices have insufficient access control for the /set_dname, /mylogo, /LocalPlay, /irdevice.xml, /Sendkey, /setvol, /hotkeylist, /init, /playlogo.jpg, /stop, /exit, /back, and /playinfo commands.

SciLexer.dll in Scintilla in Notepad++ (x64) before 7.7 allows remote code execution or denial of service via Unicode characters in a crafted .ml file.

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. We then published “Fuzzing para-virtualized devices in Hyper-V”, which has been the focus of our friends at the Virtualization Security Team.