July 2024 Patch Tuesday Unleashes a Torrent of Updates
to a pair of cowboy fighter pilots (ahem, naval aviators) in Top Gun . Less well known, but still Alive And Kicking (like the song released the same year by Simple Minds), the TIFF image file format also was introduced that year by Aldus Corporation, now known as Adobe. This CVE addresses a critical, easily exploitable vulnerability specific to this 38-year-old file format. A specially-crafted, malicious TIFF file, uploaded to a vulnerable server, could have triggered the server that receives the file to execute malicious code embedded in the TIFF file. Patch your servers to take them out of the danger zone. CVE-2024-38032 – Microsoft Xbox Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Users of the Xbox gaming console who also happen to have a wireless adapter, and connect wirelessly to their local network, should beware of strangers lurking on their network who can attack these devices. The (so far) hypothetical threat is that someone who is connected to your wireless network ca...