Remote Wi-Fi Attack Backdoors iPhone 7

Google on Tuesday disclosed details and a proof-of-concept exploit for a Wi-Fi firmware vulnerability in Broadcom chipsets patched this week in iOS 11. The attack enables code execution and persistent presence on a compromised device. “The exploit gains code execution on the Wi-Fi firmware on the...

Google Researcher Publishes PoC Exploit for Apple iPhone Wi-Fi Chip Hack

You have now another good reason to update your iPhone to newly released iOS 11—a security vulnerability in iOS 10 and earlier now has a working exploit publicly available. Gal Beniamini, a security researcher with Google Project Zero, has discovered a security vulnerability CVE-2017-11120 in...

Broadcom 802.11r (FT) Reassociation Response Overflows Vulnerability

Broadcom suffers from multiple overflow vulnerabilities when handling 802.11r FT Reassociation Response. Broadcom: Multiple overflows when handling 802.11r FT Reassociation Response CVE-2017-11121 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. Thes...

Broadcom 802.11v WNM Sleep Mode Response Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Broadcom suffers from a heap overflow vulnerability when handling 802.11v WNM Sleep Mode Response. Broadcom: Heap overflow when handling 802.11v WNM Sleep Mode Response CVE-2017-7065 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are...

Apple iOS 10.2 - Broadcom Out-of-Bounds Write when Handling 802.11k Neighbor Report Response

Apple iOS 10.2 - Broadcom Out-of-Bounds Write when Handling 802.11k Neighbor Report Response Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1289 The exploit gains code execution on the Wi-Fi firmware on the iPhone 7. The exploit has been tested against the Wi-Fi firmware as...

Apple iOS 10.2 - Broadcom Out-of-Bounds Write when Handling 802.11k Neighbor Report Response

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1289 The exploit gains code execution on the Wi-Fi firmware on the iPhone 7. The exploit has been tested against the Wi-Fi firmware as present on iOS 10.2 14C92, but should work on all versions of iOS up to 10.3.3 included. However...

Apple assembleBGScanResults Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple: Heap overflow in "assembleBGScanResults" when handling ioctl results CVE-2017-7105 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both mobile devices and Wi-Fi...

Apple setVendorIE Heap Overflow / Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple: Heap overflow and information disclosure in "setVendorIE" when handling ioctl results CVE-2017-7110 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both mobile device...

Apple updateRateSetAsyncCallback Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple: Heap overflow in "updateRateSetAsyncCallback" when handling ioctl results CVE-2017-7108 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both mobile devices and Wi-Fi...

Apple PCIe Message Ring Protocol Race Conditions Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple: Multiple Race Conditions in PCIe Message Ring protocol leading to OOB Write and OOB Read CVE-2017-7115 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both mobile...

Apple AppleBCMWLANCore Driver Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore driver when handling Completed Firmware Timestamp messages 0x27 CVE-2017-7103 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both...

Apple WLC_E_COUNTRY_CODE_CHANGED Information Leak Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple: Information Leak when handling WLCECOUNTRYCODECHANGED event packets CVE-2017-7116 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both mobile devices and Wi-Fi router...

Apple Out-Of-Bounds NUL Byte Write Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple: OOB NUL byte write when handling WLCETRACE event packets CVE-2017-7112 Broadcom produces Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both mobile devices and Wi-Fi routers, and are...

USN-3405-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3405-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.0...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3419-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3419-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3419-2 advisory. USN-3419-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3419-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3419-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3419-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.04 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Bluetooth stack of the Linux kernel wh...

USN-3419-2 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

USN-3419-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.04 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Bluetooth stack of the Linux kernel wh...

USN-3419-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Bluetooth stack of the Linux kernel when handling L2CAP configuration responses. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-1000251 It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in t...