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Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition

Let's face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are anxiously awaiting the results of how well we've patched our Democracy, it seems fitting that Microsoft Corp. today released gobs of security patches for its ubiquitous Windows operating systems. November's patch batch includes fixes for a whopping six zero-day security vulnerabilities that miscreants and malware are already exploiting in the wild.

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CVE-2021-1050: Android Security Bulletin—November 2022  |  Android Open Source Project

In MMU_UnmapPages of the PowerVR kernel driver, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android SoCAndroid ID: A-243825200

Microsoft Quashes Bevy of Actively Exploited Zero-Days for November Patch Tuesday

Long-awaited security fixes for ProxyNotShell and Mark of the Web bypasses are part of a glut of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and other critical flaws that admins need to prioritize in the coming hours.

CVE-2022-32618: November 2022

In typec, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an incorrect calculation of buffer size. This could lead to local escalation of privilege, for an attacker who has physical access to the device, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS07262454; Issue ID: ALPS07262454.

CVE-2022-39377: sysstat overflow on 32-bit systems

sysstat is a set of system performance tools for the Linux operating system. On 32 bit systems, in versions 9.1.16 and newer but prior to 12.7.1, allocate_structures contains a size_t overflow in sa_common.c. The allocate_structures function insufficiently checks bounds before arithmetic multiplication, allowing for an overflow in the size allocated for the buffer representing system activities. This issue may lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE). This issue has been patched in version 12.7.1.

CVE-2022-40206: wpForo Forum

Insecure direct object references (IDOR) vulnerability in the wpForo Forum plugin <= 2.0.5 on WordPress allows attackers with subscriber or higher user roles to mark any forum post as private/public.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 62 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 8 are classified as “Critical” and the rest are classified as “Important.”

GHSA-prm5-8g2m-24gg: Remote code execution via MongoDB BSON parser through prototype pollution

### Impact An attacker can use this prototype pollution sink to trigger a remote code execution through the MongoDB BSON parser. ### Patches Prevent prototype pollution in MongoDB database adapter. ### Workarounds Disable remote code execution through the MongoDB BSON parser. ### Collaborators Mikhail Shcherbakov (KTH), Cristian-Alexandru Staicu (CISPA) and Musard Balliu (KTH) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative ### References - https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/security/advisories/GHSA-prm5-8g2m-24gg

RHSA-2022:7624: Red Hat Security Advisory: php:8.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for the php:8.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-21708: php: Use after free due to php_filter_float() failing for ints * CVE-2022-31625: php: Uninitialized array in pg_query_params() leading to RCE