BootStomp: Find Mobile Device Bootloader Vulnerabilities

PenTestIT RSS Feed Oh boy! This post is going to be interesting as it is about an interesting topic - mobile bootloaders. Specifically, this post is about BootStomp, which helps you find vulnerabilities in the bootloader. All of us know; as the name suggests, that bootloader is a program loads th...

CVE-2014-9900

The ethtoolgetwol function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android...

CVE-2017-12777

Cross-Site Scripting XSS exists in NexusPHP version v1.5 via some parameter to usersearch.php...

Google Patches 10 Critical Bugs in August Android Security Bulletin

Google patched 10 critical remote code execution bugs in its August Android Security Bulletin issued Monday. It warned the most severe RCE vulnerabilities could enable a remote attacker, using a specially crafted file, to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. The...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Crypto Engine Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability(CVE-2016-6738)

No description provided by source. https://github.com/jiayy/androidvulnpoc-exp/tree/master/EXP-CVE-2016-6738...

CVE-2017-1000363

Linux drivers/char/lp.c Out-of-Bounds Write. Due to a missing bounds check, and the fact that parportptr integer is static, a 'secure boot' kernel command line adversary can happen due to bootloader vulns, e.g. Google Nexus 6's CVE-2016-10277, where due to a vulnerability the adversary has partia...

CVE-2016-10398

Android 6.0 has an authentication bypass for attackers with root and physical access. Cryptographic authentication tokens AuthTokens used by the Trusted Execution Environment TEE are protected by a weak challenge. This allows adversaries to replay previously captured responses and use the TEE...

Authentication flaw

Android 6.0 has an authentication bypass for attackers with root and physical access. Cryptographic authentication tokens AuthTokens used by the Trusted Execution Environment TEE are protected by a weak challenge. This allows adversaries to replay previously captured responses and use the TEE...

Integer overflow

Linux drivers/char/lp.c Out-of-Bounds Write. Due to a missing bounds check, and the fact that parportptr integer is static, a 'secure boot' kernel command line adversary can happen due to bootloader vulns, e.g. Google Nexus 6's CVE-2016-10277, where due to a vulnerability the adversary has partia...

CVE-2016-10398: Undefined Security Weakness

Android 6.0 has an authentication bypass for attackers with root and physical access. Cryptographic authentication tokens AuthTokens used by the Trusted Execution Environment TEE are protected by a weak challenge. This allows adversaries to replay previously captured responses and use the TEE...

CVE-2016-10398

Android 6.0 has an authentication bypass for attackers with root and physical access. Cryptographic authentication tokens AuthTokens used by the Trusted Execution Environment TEE are protected by a weak challenge. This allows adversaries to replay previously captured responses and use the TEE...

CVE-2017-1000363

Linux drivers/char/lp.c Out-of-Bounds Write. Due to a missing bounds check, and the fact that parportptr integer is static, a 'secure boot' kernel command line adversary can happen due to bootloader vulns, e.g. Google Nexus 6's CVE-2016-10277, where due to a vulnerability the adversary has partia...

Millions of Android Devices Using Broadcom Wi-Fi Chip Can Be Hacked Remotely

Google has released its latest monthly security update for Android devices, including a serious bug in some Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets that affects millions of Android devices, as well as some iPhone models. Dubbed BroadPwn, the critical remote code execution vulnerability resides in Broadcom's...

Nexus 9 vs. Malicious Headphones, Take Two

Nexus 9 vs. Malicious Headphones, Take Two In March 2017 we disclosed CVE-2017-0510, a critical vulnerability in Nexus 9, that allowed for quite unique an attack by malicious headphones. Interestingly, its patch was insufficient. We had responsibly reported that finding CVE-2017-0648 to Google,...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in the Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE protocol implementation in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition when an FCoE-related process unexpectedly reloads. This vulnerability affects Cisco NX-OS Software o...

CVE-2017-6655

A vulnerability in the Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE protocol implementation in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition when an FCoE-related process unexpectedly reloads. This vulnerability affects Cisco NX-OS Software o...

CVE-2017-6655

A vulnerability in the Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE protocol implementation in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition when an FCoE-related process unexpectedly reloads. This vulnerability affects Cisco NX-OS Software o...

CVE-2017-6655

A vulnerability in the Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE protocol implementation in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition when an FCoE-related process unexpectedly reloads. This vulnerability affects Cisco NX-OS Software o...

Motorola G4 & G5 mobile phone was traced to the presence of high-risk kernel command line injection vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In a previous article about the Nexus6 root vulnerability in the article, we had mentioned Vulnerability CVE-2016-10277 will likely affect the Motorola device. When we on Twitter by some of the relevant reports after the fact to prove our previous conjecture. In order to prove that Motorola devic...

Cisco Patches Critical Flaws in Prime Data Center Network Manager

A debugging tool left on in deployments of Cisco’s large-scale data center management software could be remotely accessed and allow an attacker to run code with root privileges. Cisco made an update available that patches this and one other critical vulnerability in the same management software,...