How to Fight Mobile Number Port-out Scams

T-Mobile, AT&T and other mobile carriers are reminding customers to take advantage of free services that can block identity thieves from easily "porting" your mobile number out to another provider, which allows crooks to intercept your calls and messages while your phone goes dark. Tips for...

CVE-2017-10917

Xen through 4.8.x does not validate the port numbers of polled event channel ports, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash or possibly obtain sensitive information, aka XSA-221...

CVE-2016-3824

CVE-2016-3824 covers a Mediaserver elevation of privilege flaw in Android’s mediaserver (libstagefright), where OMXNodeInstance.cpp in OMX buffer port handling is unvalidated. A crafted application could exploit this local issue to gain privileges. Affected are Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x bef...

CVE-2016-3824

omx/OMXNodeInstance.cpp in libstagefright in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-08-01 does not validate the buffer port, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 28816827...

Security Advisory - Path Traversal Vulnerability in Huawei Home Gateway Products

There is a path traversal vulnerability on several Huawei home gateway products. The products do not properly validate HTTP requests received by a specific port. An remote attacker may access the local files on the device without authentication by crafting an HTTP request and sending it to the...