kernel: Denial Of Service in the __ipmi_bmc_register() function in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c

A memory leak problem was found in ipmibmcregister in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmimsghandler.c in Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI which is used for incoming and outgoing message routing purpose. This flaw may allow an attacker with minimal privilege to cause a denial of service by...

Iblessing - An iOS Security Exploiting Toolkit, It Mainly Includes Application Information Collection, Static Analysis And Dynamic Analysis

iblessing iblessing is an iOS security exploiting toolkit, it mainly includes application information collection , static analysis and dynamic analysis. iblessing is based on unicorn engine and capstone engine. Features Cross-platform: Tested on macOS and Ubuntu. iOS App static info extract,...

GReAT thoughts: Awesome IDA Pro plugins

The Global Research & Analysis Team here at Kaspersky has a tradition of meeting up once a month and sharing cutting-edge research, interesting techniques and useful tools. We recently took the unprecedented decision to make our internal meetings public for a few months and present them as a seri...

How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less

By Brandon Azad, Project Zero At 3 PM PDT on May 23, 2020, the unc0ver jailbreak was released for iOS 13.5 the latest signed version at the time of release using a zero-day vulnerability and heavy obfuscation. By 7 PM, I had identified the vulnerability and informed Apple. By 1 AM, I had sent App...

Dynamic Data Resolver (DDR) — IDA Plugin 1.0 beta

By Holger Unterbrink Executive summaryStatic reverse-engineering in IDA can often be problematic. Certain values are calculated at run time, which makes it difficult to understand what a certain basic block is doing. If you try to perform dynamic analysis by debugging a piece of malware, the...

Part two: Reverse engineering and patching with Ghidra

In the first installment of our three-part blog series we learned how to root the Flashforge Finder 3D printer and acquire its firmware. In this post, we will delve into reverse engineering and patching the software using the new open source NSA tool Ghidra, which rivals its expensive competitors...

What does it take to become a good reverse engineer?

How much money and effort does it take to become a good reverse engineer? Do you even need to be one? There are no universally acceptable answers to these questions. Software reverse engineering RE is not a science but a skillset combined with specific knowledge and backed by a lot of experience...

Thinking Outside the Bochs: Code Grafting to Unpack Malware in Emulation

This blog post continues the FLARE script series with a discussion of patching IDA Pro database files IDBs to interactively emulate code. While the fastest way to analyze or unpack malware is often to run it, malware won’t always successfully execute in a VM. I use IDA Pro’s Bochs integration in...

PT-2020-20605 · Isomorphic · Smartclient

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SmartClient version 12.0 Description: An issue was discovered in SmartClient where an unauthenticated attacker can make a POST request to "/tools/developerConsoleOperations.jsp" or "/isomorphic/IDACall" with malformed XML data in the...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure runrshell Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Cisco Prime Infrastructure CPI is a wired and wireless network management software suite that consists of different networking applications from Cisco Systems. The system is used across various industries, from healthcare, manufacturing, government, IT, etc. A vulnerability was found in the...

FIDL: FLARE’s IDA Decompiler Library

IDA Pro and the Hex Rays decompiler are a core part of any toolkit for reverse engineering and vulnerability research. In a previous blog post we discussed how the Hex-Rays API can be used to solve small, well-defined problems commonly seen as part of malware analysis. Having access to a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19046

A memory leak in the ipmibmcregister function in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmimsghandler.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering idasimpleget failure, aka CID-4aa7afb0ee20. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this becau...

Virtuailor - IDAPython Tool For Creating Automatic C++ Virtual Tables In IDA Pro

Virtuailor is an IDAPython tool that reconstructs vtables for C++ code written for intel architecture, both 32bit and 64bit code and AArch64 New!. The tool constructed from 2 parts, static and dynamic. The first is the static part, contains the following capabilities: Detects indirect calls. Hook...

PT-2019-4947 · Linux +6 · Linux Kernel +6

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions through 5.3.11 Description: The issue is related to a memory leak in the ipmi bmc register function, which can be triggered by causing the ida simple get function to fail. This can lead to a denial of service due to memo...

New IDA Pro plugin provides TileGX support

By Jonas Zaddach Overview Cisco Talos has a new plugin available for IDA Pro that provides a new disassembler for TileGX binaries. This tool should assist researchers in reverse-engineering threats in IDA Pro that target TileGX. We started developing this tool after the VPNFilter campaign last...

IDA, I Think It’s Time You And I Had a Talk: Controlling IDA Pro With Voice Control Software

Introduction This blog post is the next episode in the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team Script Series. Today, we are sharing something quite unusual. It is not a tool or a virtual machine distribution, nor is it a plugin or script for a popular reverse engineering tool or...

GhIDA: Ghidra decompiler for IDA Pro

By Andrea Marcelli Executive Summary Cisco Talos is releasing two new tools for IDA Pro: GhIDA and Ghidraaas. GhIDA is an IDA Pro plugin that integrates the Ghidra decompiler in the IDA workflow, giving users the ability to rename and highlight symbols and improved navigation and comments. GhIDA...

Pwning a Siemens Scalance ICS switch through ARM reversing

We’ve been working in industrial control systems security for a long time. Several of the team here used to work in OT control rooms or support SCADA environments. Whilst pen testing a ship control system, we noticed a heavy reliance on Siemens Scalance industrial ethernet switches, so bought a...

CVE-2017-13719

The Amcrest IPM-721S AmcrestIPC-AWXXEngNV2.420.AC00.17.R.20170322 allows HTTP requests that permit enabling various functionalities of the camera by using HTTP APIs, instead of the web management interface that is provided by the application. This HTTP API receives the credentials as base64 encod...

CVE-2017-8226

Amcrest IPM-721S V2.420.AC00.16.R.20160909 devices have default credentials that are hardcoded in the firmware and can be extracted by anyone who reverses the firmware to identify them. If the firmware version V2.420.AC00.16.R 9/9/2016 is dissected using binwalk tool, one obtains a...