CVE-2018-11838

CVE-2018-11838 describes a possible double-free in the WLAN stack due to insufficient memory-free-condition checking in Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, affecting Qualcomm WLAN components across Snapdragon families (e.g., APQ8053, MDM9640, SDA660, SDM636/660/SDX20) and various Snapdragon product li...

Social Security Administration Designates March 5 as National ‘Slam the Scam’ Day

In association with the Federal Trade Commission’s National Consumer Protection Week, the Social Security Administration SSA has designated March 5 as National “Slam the Scam” Day to educate Americans about telephone scammers impersonating government employees. These scammers aim to gain potentia...

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers' location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the...

National Consumer Protection Week

National Consumer Protection Week NCPW is March 1–7. This annual event encourages individuals and businesses to learn about their consumer rights and how to keep themselves secure. The Federal Trade Commission FTC and its NCPW partners provide free resources to protect consumers from fraud, scams...

Stalkerware and online stalking are accepted by Americans. Why?

Despite warnings from domestic abuse networks, privacy rights advocates, and a committed faction of cybersecurity vendors, Americans may be accepting and minimizing online stalking behaviors, including the use of invasive apps that can pry into a user’s text messages, emails, photos, videos, and...

CVE-2020-5324

CVE-2020-5324 describes an Arbitrary File Overwrite vulnerability in the Dell Firmware Update Utility. During the execution window by an administrator, a locally authenticated, low-privileged user could exploit a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files, though the vulnerability does not affec...

CVE-2019-14049

Stage-2 fault will occur while writing to an ION system allocation which has been assigned to non-HLOS memory which is non-standard in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdrag...

CVE-2019-14044

Out of bound access due to access of uninitialized memory segment in an array of pointers while normal camera open close in Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in QCS605, SDM439, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, SDX24...

CVE-2019-14046

Out of bound access while allocating memory for an array in camera due to improper validation of elements parameters in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Musi...

Design/Logic Flaw

Possible use after free issue while CRM is accessing the link pointer from device private data due to lack of resource protection in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in APQ800...

CVE-2019-14088

CVE-2019-14088 corresponds to a use-after-free in Qualcomm camera/resource handling affecting Snapdragon Auto/Compute/IoT components (APQ8009, MDM9206/9207C/9607, QCS605, SDM429W, SDX24, SM8150, SXR1130). Root cause: lack of resource protection leading to use-after-free when CRM accesses a link p...

CVE-2019-14063

Out of bound access due to Invalid inputs to dapm mux settings which results into kernel failure in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in IPQ4019,...

CVE-2019-14044

CVE-2019-14044 is an out-of-bounds memory access in an array of pointers during normal camera open/close on Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms (e.g., QCS605, SDM439/630/636/660/SDX24/SDM660). Root cause: use of uninitialized memory segment leading to potential privilege impact. Documented impact is Hi...

CVE-2019-14002

APKs without proper permission may bind to CallEnhancementService and can lead to unauthorized access to call status in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables in APQ8053, APQ8096AU, APQ8098, MSM8909W, MSM891...

Washington Privacy Act welcomed by corporate and nonprofit actors

The steady parade of US data privacy legislation continued last month in Washington with the introduction of an improved bill that would grant state residents the rights to access, control, delete, and port their data, as well as opting out of data sales. The bill, called the Washington Privacy...

New Research on the Adtech Industry

The Norwegian Consumer Council has published an extensive report about how the adtech industry violates consumer privacy. At the same time, it is filing three legal complaints against six companies in this space. From a Twitter summary: 1. thread We are filing legal complaints against six...

Customer Tracking at Ralphs Grocery Store

To comply with California's new data privacy law, companies that collect information on consumers and users are forced to be more transparent about it. Sometimes the results are creepy. Here's an article about Ralphs, a California supermarket chain owned by Kroger: ...the form proceeds to state...

Embracing Data Privacy Day

January 28 is Data Privacy Day, commemorating the Council of Europe Treaty known as Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty on data protection signed on January 28, 1981. This "holiday" was originally celebrated in Europe where it is known as Data Protection day. But in 200...

php:php-fuzz-mbstring: Heap-use-after-free in quantifiers_memory_node_info

Detailed Report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5672130576646144 Project: php Fuzzing Engine: libFuzzer Fuzz Target: php-fuzz-mbstring Job Type: libfuzzerasani386php Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-use-after-free READ 4 Crash Address: 0xf5239f80 Crash State: quantifiersmemorynodeinfo...

CVE-2018-16271

The wemailconsumerservice from the built-in application wemail in Samsung Galaxy Gear series allows an unprivileged process to manipulate a user's mailbox, due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. An arbitrary email can also be sent from the mailbox via the paired smartphone. This...