Book Review: Twitter and Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci

There are two opposing models of how the Internet has changed protest movements. The first is that the Internet has made protesters mightier than ever. This comes from the successful revolutions in Tunisia 2010-11, Egypt 2011, and Ukraine 2013. The second is that it has made them more ineffectual...

CVE-2017-7730

iSmartAlarm cube devices allow Denial of Service. Sending a SYN flood on port 12345 will freeze the "cube" and it will stop responding...

Design/Logic Flaw

A Resource Exhaustion issue was discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon M340 PLC BMXNOC0401, BMXNOE0100, BMXNOE0110, BMXNOE0110H, BMXNOR0200H, BMXP341000, BMXP342000, BMXP3420102, BMXP3420102CL, BMXP342020, BMXP342020H, BMXP342030, BMXP3420302, BMXP3420302H, and BMXP342030H. A remote attacker...

The vulnerability of the libhevc library in the Mediaserver application of the Android operating system allows a hacker to cause service failure, device freezing, and reloading of the device.

The vulnerability of the libhevc library in the Mediaserver application of the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures, device freezes, and reboots by using a specially created file...

The vulnerability of the android operating system’s sound driver ioctl handler allows a hacker to cause the device to freeze or fail to function properly.

The vulnerability of the Android operating system’s sound driver ioctl handler arises due to synchronization errors when using shared resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause the device to become unresponsive or to fail to function properly...

The vulnerability of the libvpx library in the Mediaserver application of the Android operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure, device freezing, and reloading of the device.

The vulnerability of the libvpx library in the Mediaserver application of the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures, device freezes, and reboots by using a specially created file...

CVE-2017-6017: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

A Resource Exhaustion issue was discovered in Schneider Electric Modicon M340 PLC BMXNOC0401, BMXNOE0100, BMXNOE0110, BMXNOE0110H, BMXNOR0200H, BMXP341000, BMXP342000, BMXP3420102, BMXP3420102CL, BMXP342020, BMXP342020H, BMXP342030, BMXP3420302, BMXP3420302H, and BMXP342030H. A remote attacker...

Foscam camera RtspServer Denial of Service Vulnerability

Foscam camera is a webcam that pushes messages to your phone and also enables video Baidu cloud storage directly through WIFI. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Foscam camera RtspServer, where RtspServer crashes due to an out-of-memory read due to a negative number being incorrectly...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a perpetrator to cause the device to freeze or restart.

The vulnerability in HevcUtils.cpp within the libstagefright Mediaserver library of the Android operating system is related to resource management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to cause the device to freeze or restart through a specially...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system allows a perpetrator to cause the device to freeze and restart.

The vulnerability of the Mediaserver application’s libavc service in the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause the device to freeze and restart by using a specially created file...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system allows a perpetrator to cause the device to freeze and restart.

The vulnerability of the libskia service in the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause the device to freeze and restart by using a specially created file...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system allows a perpetrator to cause the device to freeze and restart.

The vulnerability of the Mediaserver application’s libavc service in the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause the device to freeze and restart by using a specially created file...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system allows a perpetrator to cause the device to freeze and restart.

The vulnerability of the Mediaserver application’s libavc service in the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause the device to freeze and restart by using a specially created file...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the Mediaserver component in the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to cause service interruptions device freezing and reboots by using a specially crafted file...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5419

If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown through the operating system. This is a denial of service DOS attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox 52 and Thunderbird 52...

Error: "Guided Access Application Unavailable. Please Contact Your Administrator" on XenMobile Enrolled iOS Device

A XenMobile enrolled iOS device will show a"Guided Access App Unavailable. Please Contact Your Administrator.” error on screen and the device may appear to be frozen or locked...

Schneider Electric Modicon Devices DoS Vulnerability (SEVD-2017-048-02)

Schneider Electric Modicon devices are prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. 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 if...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a perpetrator to cause the device to freeze or restart.

The vulnerability of the libstagefright component in Android operating system media servers is related to improper data processing. Exploiting this vulnerability can cause the device to become unstable or restart remotely controlled by an attacker...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a perpetrator to cause the device to freeze or restart.

The vulnerability of the Android operating system’s telephony service is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause the device to freeze or restart remotely...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a perpetrator to cause the device to freeze or restart

The vulnerability of the Android operating system’s Mediaserver service is related to resource management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can cause the device to become unresponsive or restart remotely controlled by an attacker...