The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the CPU performance module of Qualcomm ARM’s Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control for certain functions. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a local attacker to enhance their privileges through a specially created application...

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-00931)

The Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 is a controller family with a modular structure. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 versions prior to 1.8.3 when processing specially crafted TCP packets. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause the CPU to automatically reboo...

Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance is an architectural multi-tier email security management tool. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance that could be exploited by an attacker to cause excessive CPU usage and launch a denial of service...

httpd: mod_deflate denial of service

A denial of service flaw was found in the way httpd's moddeflate module handled request body decompression configured via the "DEFLATE" input filter. A remote attacker able to send a request whose body would be decompressed could use this flaw to consume an excessive amount of system memory and C...

python: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS (oCERT-2011-003)

Python before 2.6.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.3, 3.x before 3.1.5, and 3.2.x before 3.2.3 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via crafted input to an application...

Wiki clone products vulnerable to denial of service attacks

Overview Wiki clones allow a user via a web browser to edit documents on the web server. Some products of Wiki clones contain a vulnerability which consumes large amounts of CPU and memory resources when handling a particular request. Impact A remote attacker could execute a DoS denial of service...