KVA Shadow: Mitigating Meltdown on Windows

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates that relate to a new class of discovered hardware vulnerabilities, termed speculative execution side channels, that affect the design methodology and implementation decisions behind many modern microprocessors. This post...

Teen Hacks Ledger Hardware Cryptocurrency Wallet

By Waqas A 15-year-old IT security researcher Saleem Rashid has identified a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Teen Hacks Ledger Hardware Cryptocurrency Wallet...

CVE-2018-8935

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in the ASIC, aka CHIMERA-HW...

Code injection

The AMD EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips have insufficient enforcement of Hardware Validated Boot, aka MASTERKEY-1, MASTERKEY-2, and MASTERKEY-3...

CVE-2018-8930

The AMD EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips have insufficient enforcement of Hardware Validated Boot, aka MASTERKEY-1, MASTERKEY-2, and MASTERKEY-3...

CVE-2018-8930

The AMD EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips have insufficient enforcement of Hardware Validated Boot, aka MASTERKEY-1, MASTERKEY-2, and MASTERKEY-3...

CVE-2018-8930

The AMD EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips have insufficient enforcement of Hardware Validated Boot, aka MASTERKEY-1, MASTERKEY-2, and MASTERKEY-3...

CVE-2018-8930

CVE-2018-8930 concerns AMD EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro and Ryzen Mobile processors with insufficient enforcement of Hardware Validated Boot (MASTERKEY-1/MASTERKEY-2/MASTERKEY-3). Public sources consistently identify the affected products and the root cause as weak validation of boot hardware, e...

CVE-2018-8904

In Windows Master aka Windows Optimization Master 7.99.13.604, the driver file WoptiHWDetect.SYS allows local users to cause a denial of service BSOD or possibly have unspecified other impact because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0xf1002000...

CVE-2018-8930: Undefined Security Weakness

The AMD EPYC Server, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips have insufficient enforcement of Hardware Validated Boot, aka MASTERKEY-1, MASTERKEY-2, and MASTERKEY-3...

15-Year-old Finds Flaw in Ledger Crypto Wallet

A 15-year-old security researcher has discovered a serious flaw in cryptocurrency hardware wallets made by Ledger, a French company whose popular products are designed to physically safeguard public and private keys used to receive or spend the user’s cryptocurrencies. Ledger's Nano-S...

Coship RT3052 Wireless Router - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Coship RT3052 Wireless Router - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Title: Coship RT3052 Wireless Router - Persistent Cross Site Scripting XSS Date: 2018-03-18 Exploit Author: Sayan Chatterjee Vendor Homepage: http://en.coship.com/ Category: Hardware Wifi Router Version: 4.0.0.48 Tested on:...

Sensitive data types in Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 log files

Challenge When you open a support ticket, Veeam Customer Support specialists may request log files. These log files may contain information to which the terms of the data protection laws or internal company policies apply. Veeam Backup & Replication Veeam Backup & Replication log files may includ...

Coship RT3052 Wireless Router - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Coship RT3052 Wireless Router - Persistent Cross Site Scripting XSS Date: 2018-03-18 Exploit Author: Sayan Chatterjee Vendor Homepage: http://en.coship.com/ Category: Hardware Wifi Router Version: 4.0.0.48 Tested on: Windows 10 CVE: CVE-2018-8772 Proof of Concept =================...

CBM - Car Backdoor Maker

A hardware-backdoor for CAN bus - by @UnaPibaGeek & @holesec For the first time, a hardware backdoor tool is presented having several advanced features, such as: remote control via SMS commands, automated launch of attack payloads at a GPS location or when a specific car status is reached; and a...

New Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Looks To Squash The Next Spectre, Meltdown

In the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, Microsoft has rolled out a new bug bounty program targeting speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. The limited time program is open until December 31, and offers up to $250,000 for identifying new categories of speculative execution...

Intel Details CPU ‘Virtual Fences’ Fix As Safeguard Against Spectre, Meltdown Flaws

Intel introduced hardware-based protections to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry when the vulnerabilities were made public in early 2018. Spectre and Meltdown, which account for three variants of a side-channel analysis security issue...

USN-3597-2 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. USNS 3541-2 and 3523-2 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: ceph-12.2.4-1.fc27

Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage...

Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chanc...