Secured-core PCs help customers stay ahead of advanced data theft

Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology recently revealed information around "Thunderspy," an attack that relies on leveraging direct memory access DMA functionality to compromise devices. An attacker with physical access to a system can use Thunderspy to read and copy data even fro...

7 New Flaws Affect All Thunderbolt-equipped Computers Sold in the Last 9 Years

A cybersecurity researcher today uncovers a set of 7 new unpatchable hardware vulnerabilities that affect all desktops and laptops sold in the past 9 years with Thunderbolt, or Thunderbolt-compatible USB-C ports. Collectively dubbed 'ThunderSpy,' the vulnerabilities can be exploited in 9 realisti...

SAS@Home Virtual Summit Showcases New Threat Intel, Industry Changes

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force in-person cybersecurity event cancellations, Kaspersky is forging ahead with a virtual security summit, SAS@home. Topics on the agenda include threat intel on advanced persistent threats APTs, new vulnerability research, and topics related to a...

CVE-2019-12067

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the QEMU emulator's IDE AHCI emulator. Exploitation of the flaw could occur while committing DMA buffer in ahcicommitbuf if the command header 'ad-curcmd' was null. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resultin...

Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 Advisory

This advisory contains CVEs in Altera products and has been transferred to Altera for support. The updated advisory can be found at the link below: https://www.altera.com/product-security/advisory-archive/intel-sa-00319.html...

CVE-2019-14079

Access to the uninitialized variable when the driver tries to unmap the dma buffer of a request which was never mapped in the first place leading to kernel failure in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables i...

CVE-2019-14079: Use of Uninitialized Resource

Access to the uninitialized variable when the driver tries to unmap the dma buffer of a request which was never mapped in the first place leading to kernel failure in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables i...

Lenovo, HP, Dell Peripherals Face Unpatched Firmware Bugs

Fresh firmware vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi adapters, USB hubs, trackpads and cameras are putting millions of peripheral devices in danger of a range of cyberattacks, according to research from Eclypsium. TouchPad and TrackPoint firmware in Lenovo Laptops, HP Wide Vision FHD camera firmware in HP...

CVE-2019-18913

A potential security vulnerability with pre-boot DMA may allow unauthorized UEFI code execution using open-case attacks. This industry-wide issue requires physically accessing internal expansion slots with specialized hardware and software tools to modify UEFI code in memory. This affects HP...

CVE-2019-18913

A potential security vulnerability with pre-boot DMA may allow unauthorized UEFI code execution using open-case attacks. This industry-wide issue requires physically accessing internal expansion slots with specialized hardware and software tools to modify UEFI code in memory. This affects HP...

Code injection

A potential security vulnerability with pre-boot DMA may allow unauthorized UEFI code execution using open-case attacks. This industry-wide issue requires physically accessing internal expansion slots with specialized hardware and software tools to modify UEFI code in memory. This affects HP...

CVE-2019-18913

A potential security vulnerability with pre-boot DMA may allow unauthorized UEFI code execution using open-case attacks. This industry-wide issue requires physically accessing internal expansion slots with specialized hardware and software tools to modify UEFI code in memory. This affects HP...

CVE-2019-18913

The CVE-2019-18913 issue concerns pre-boot DMA that could allow unauthorized UEFI code execution via open-case attacks. Documents indicate this affects HP Intel-based Business PCs that support Windows 10 Kernel DMA protection, with affected versions depending on platform (before 01.04.02; before ...

CVE-2019-18913: Undefined Security Weakness

A potential security vulnerability with pre-boot DMA may allow unauthorized UEFI code execution using open-case attacks. This industry-wide issue requires physically accessing internal expansion slots with specialized hardware and software tools to modify UEFI code in memory. This affects HP...

Enterprise laptops vulnerable to critical direct memory access attack

By Sudais Asif In a direct memory access DMA attack an attacker can plug in a malicious device into one’s computer and extract highly confidential information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Enterprise laptops vulnerable to critical direct memory access attack...

Dell, HP Memory-Access Bugs Open Attacker Path to Kernel Privileges

Vulnerabilities in Dell and HP laptops could allow an attacker to access information and gain kernel privileges via the devices’ Direct Memory Access DMA capability. DMA is a processing-efficiency approach for peripherals such as PCI cards or network interface cards that, as the name suggests,...

HPSBHF03647 rev. 2 - HP Open-Chassis Pre-boot Direct Memory Access (DMA) Vulnerability

Potential Security Impact Arbitrary Code Execution, Denial of Service, Information Disclosure. Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT. Reported by: Mickey Shkatov from Eclypsium, and Zoltan Harmath from Microsoft. VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A potential security vulnerability with pre-boot...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20175

An issue was discovered in idedmacb in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU 2.4.0 through 4.2.0. The guest system can crash the QEMU process in the host system via a special SCSIIOCTLSENDCOMMAND. It hits an assertion that implies that the size of successful DMA transfers there must be a multiple of 512 the size...

CVE-2019-20175

An issue was discovered in idedmacb in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU 2.4.0 through 4.2.0. The guest system can crash the QEMU process in the host system via a special SCSIIOCTLSENDCOMMAND. It hits an assertion that implies that the size of successful DMA transfers there must be a multiple of 512 the size...

CVE-2019-20175

An issue was discovered in idedmacb in hw/ide/core.c in QEMU 2.4.0 through 4.2.0. The guest system can crash the QEMU process in the host system via a special SCSIIOCTLSENDCOMMAND. It hits an assertion that implies that the size of successful DMA transfers there must be a multiple of 512 the size...