CVE-2024-43623

Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190)

Published: Nov 12, 2024

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

Advisory Week Week 45, 2024 National Cyber Awareness System CISA Releases Nineteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Palo Alto Networks Emphasizes Hardening Guidance Fortinet Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products Microsoft Releases November 2024 Security Updates Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products Ivanti Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products JCDC’s Collaborative Efforts Enhance Cybersecurity for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Citrix Releases Security Updates for NetScaler and Citrix Session Recording CISA Releases Five Industrial Control Systems Advisories CISA, FBI, NSA, and International Partners Release Joint Advisory on 2023 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Adobe Security Bulletins and Advisories Security updates available for Adobe Photoshop APSB24-89 Security Updates Available for Adobe Commerce APSB24-90 Security Updates Available for Adobe Illustrator APSB24-66 APSB24-87 Security Update Available for Adobe InDesign APSB24-88 Security Updates Available for Adobe Bridge APSB24-77 Security Updates Available for Adobe Audition APSB24-83 Mozilla Security Advisories Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 132.0.1 mfsa2024-62 Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 128.4.3 mfsa2024-61 Ubuntu Security Notices Linux kernel vulnerabilities: USN-7089-6 / USN-7088-5 / USN-7089-5 / USN-7110-1 / USN-7089-4 / USN-7100-2 / USN-7100-1 GD Graphics Library vulnerability: USN-7112-1 Go vulnerabilities: USN-7111-1 / USN-7109-1 Linux kernel vulnerability:

On November 13, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released a security update patch for November, which fixed 89 security issues, including Windows, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office, Azure, Open Source Software, Microsoft Visual Studio, System Center and other widely used products, including high-risk vulnerabilities such as privilege escalation vulnerability and remote code execution vulnerability. Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)

Atlassian Confluence Server CVE-2023-22505 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Atlassian Confluence Server CVE-2023-22508 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

So, without further ado, here’s the chart of MS patches that affect Windows platforms in the past month. Of this months patches only 8 are critical and 88 important.

We are as always including at the end of this post additional appendices listing all Microsoft’s patches, sorted by severity, by predicted exploitability, and by product family. This Important-severity spoofing vulnerability, which Microsoft believes to be more likely to be exploited within the next 30 days, has a rather specific set of post-installation instructions, which can be seen on the company’s site.