Defending the power grid against supply chain attacks—Part 2: Securing hardware and software

Artificial intelligence AI and connected devices have fueled digital transformation in the utilities industry. These technological advances promise to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of energy generation, transmission, and distribution. They’ve also created new vulnerabilities...

Fedora 30 : webkit2gtk3 (2020-f3fa778924)

Update to WebKitGTK 2.28.0. - Add API to enable Process Swap on Cross-site Navigation. - Add user messages API for the communication with the web extension. - Add support for same-site cookies. - Service workers are enabled by default. - Add support for Pointer Lock API. - Add flatpak sandbox...

Secured-core PCs: A brief showcase of chip-to-cloud security against kernel attacks

Gaining kernel privileges by taking advantage of legitimate but vulnerable kernel drivers has become an established tool of choice for advanced adversaries. Multiple malware attacks, including RobbinHood, Uroburos, Derusbi, GrayFish, and Sauron, and campaigns by the threat actor STRONTIUM, have...

CVE-2019-15099

A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's implementation of the ath10k USB device driver. The vulnerability requires the attacker to plug in a specially crafted hardware device that present endpoint descriptors that normal ath10k devices do not recognize. System...

USN-4303-2 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerability

USN-4303-1 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 14.04 ESM. Paulo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel...

Monero: Hardware Wallets Do Not Check Unlock TIme

Summary: The hardware wallet implementations using the monero wallet do not check the unlock time when signing. This allows malware on the user's computer which the hardware wallet should protect from to permanently lock-up all the user's funds if the user signs a transaction on the device with a...

Flaws Riddle Zyxel’s Network Management Software

Security researchers are warning that networking hardware vendor Zyxel and its Cloud CNM SecuManager software is chock-full of unpatched vulnerabilities that kick open the doors for hackers to exploit. In all, researchers have identified 16 vulnerabilities, ranging from multiple backdoors and...

CVE-2020-1981

A predictable temporary filename vulnerability in PAN-OS allows local privilege escalation. This issue allows a local attacker who bypassed the restricted shell to execute commands as a low privileged user and gain root access on the PAN-OS hardware or virtual appliance. This issue affects only...

Hardware Router CTF

Here at Pen Test Partners we love hardware and also love a good CTF. So here's how I figured out my way through the hardware CTF that PTP set as a pre-requisite for some interviews. I'm pretty new to hardware, so learned quite a bit along the way. We have now moved on to a new 'interview' CTF so,...

CVE-2019-10569

Stack buffer overflow due to instance id is misplaced inside definition of hardware accelerated effects in makefile in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in APQ8053, APQ8098, MDM9607, MDM9640, MSM8998, QCS605, SC8180X, SDM439, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660,...

RICOH Aficio SP 5200S Printer - entryNameIn HTML Injection

RICOH Aficio SP 5200S Printer - entryNameIn HTML Injection Exploit Title: RICOH Aficio SP 5200S Printer - 'entryNameIn' HTML Injection Discovery by: Paulina Girón Discovery Date: 2020-03-02 Vendor Homepage: https://www.ricoh.com/ Hardware Link:...

RICOH Aficio SP 5200S Printer HTML Injection

Exploit Title: RICOH Aficio SP 5200S Printer - 'entryNameIn' HTML Injection Discovery by: Paulina Girón Discovery Date: 2020-03-02 Vendor Homepage: https://www.ricoh.com/ Hardware Link: http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/drute/re2/model/sp52s/sp52s.htm Product Version: RICOH Aficio SP 5200S Printer...

hw: voltage modulation technical advisory

Improper conditions check in the voltage modulation interface for some IntelR XeonR Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access...

The vulnerability of the lsi_do_msgin function in the QEMU hardware emulation software, related to reading beyond the data buffer, allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the lsidomsgin function hw/scsi/lsi53c895a.c in the QEMU hardware emulation software is related to reading beyond the buffer data boundary. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure due to an invalid value of the msglen variable...

The vulnerability of the TCP/IP emulator tcp_emu(), Slirp emulator, and the hardware emulation software QEMU allows a hacker to induce a service failure.

The vulnerability of the tcpemu function slirp/tcpsubr.c of the Slirp TCP/IP emulator and the QEMU hardware emulation software is related to the execution of operations outside the data buffer “scrcv-sbdata”. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

The vulnerability of the rtl8139_do_receive function in the QEMU hardware emulation software, related to integer overflow, allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the rtl8139doreceive function in the QEMU hardware emulation software is related to integer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a service failure...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Jingdong Xiaojingyu Intelligent Service Platform

Jingdong Xiaojingyu Intelligent Service Platform is a platform for the intelligent industry, empowering intelligent hardware, smart home, smart car and other fields, providing "technology + service + channel" one-stop intelligent solutions. Jingdong Xiaojingyu Intelligent Service Platform has an...

New CWE List of Common Security Weaknesses

MITRE has released version 4.0 of the community-developed Common Weakness Enumeration CWE list. Previous CWE list versions describe common software security weaknesses. With version 4.0, the CWE list expands to include hardware security weaknesses. Additionally, version 4.0 simplifies the...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

The vulnerability of the interface_release_resource function in the QEMU hardware emulation driver, located in hw/display/qxl.c, relates to the assignment of a null pointer. This allows an attacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the interfacereleaseresource function in the QEMU hardware emulation driver hw/display/qxl.c is related to the assignment of a null pointer to the ext.info object. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a service failure remotely...