Amazon Halts Sale of Android Blu Phone Amid Spyware Concerns

Android phone maker Blu Products was dealt a blow Monday when Amazon said it would no longer sell its phones, citing security and privacy issues. The phone maker came under scrutiny last week by researchers at Kryptowire during a Black Hat session where they criticized the company for collecting...

Android Spyware Still Collects PII Despite Outcry

UPDATE LAS VEGAS—Shanghai Adups Technology Co. was roundly criticized Wednesday during a Black Hat session for continuing to use spyware called Adups on at least two Android handset makers’ phones. Researchers said the company was still collecting personal identifiable information without user...

Fedora 24 : libmtp (2017-d26266eb32)

libmtp 1.1.13 ============= Christophe Vu-Brugier 1 : - added GoPro HERO5 Black Emeric Grange 2 : - added GoPro HERO5 Session - rename F5321 into XPeria X Compact Gaute Hope 2 : - add GoPro Hero+ - add mtp-detect for GoPro Hero+ Jerry Zhang 1 : - Update Google device strings, add PTP+ADB id Marcu...

Mini Blu RCU - Dangerous filesystem permissions, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Mini Blu RCU published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

blu-ray.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/top.php?show="' /Style=position:fixed;top:0;left:0;font-size:999px; /Onmouseenter=confirmOPENBUGBOUNTY // Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 14.11.2017 Latest check for patch:| 14.11.2017 07:16 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS...

CVE-2016-10137

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The content provider named com.adups.fota.sysoper.provider.InfoProvider in the app with a package name of com.adups.fota.sysoper allows any app on the device to read, write, and delete files as the system user. In the...

CVE-2016-10138

An issue was discovered on BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and cannot be disabled by the user. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute t...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and cannot be disabled by the user. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute t...

Authentication flaw

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The content provider named com.adups.fota.sysoper.provider.InfoProvider in the app with a package name of com.adups.fota.sysoper allows any app on the device to read, write, and delete files as the system user. In the...

CVE-2016-10139

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The two package names involved in the exfiltration are com.adups.fota and com.adups.fota.sysoper. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute to a value of...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The content provider named com.adups.fota.sysoper.provider.InfoProvider in the app with a package name of com.adups.fota.sysoper allows any app on the device to read, write, and delete files as the system user. In the...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The two package names involved in the exfiltration are com.adups.fota and com.adups.fota.sysoper. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute to a value of...

CVE-2016-10136

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The content provider named com.adups.fota.sysoper.provider.InfoProvider in the app with a package name of com.adups.fota.sysoper allows any app on the device to read, write, and delete files as the system user. In the...

CVE-2016-10135

An issue was discovered on LG devices using the MTK chipset with L5.0/5.1, M6.0/6.0.1, and N7.0 software, and RCA Voyager Tablet, BLU Advance 5.0, and BLU R1 HD devices. The MTKLogger app with a package name of com.mediatek.mtklogger has application components that are accessible to any applicati...

Input validation

An issue was discovered on LG devices using the MTK chipset with L5.0/5.1, M6.0/6.0.1, and N7.0 software, and RCA Voyager Tablet, BLU Advance 5.0, and BLU R1 HD devices. The MTKLogger app with a package name of com.mediatek.mtklogger has application components that are accessible to any applicati...

CVE-2016-10137

CVE-2016-10137 affects BLU R1 HD devices running Shanghai Adups software. The vulnerability arises from the com.adups.fota.sysoper app (package com.adups.fota.sysoper) exposing InfoProvider to any app on the device, coupled with android:sharedUserId set to android.uid.system, causing execution as...

CVE-2016-10138

CVE-2016-10138 affects BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD running Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and sets android:sharedUserId to android.uid.system, causing it to run as the system user. It exposes an exported broadcast receiver (com.adups.fota.sy...

CVE-2016-10136

CVE-2016-10136 affects BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper provider InfoProvider, in the com.adups.fota.sysoper app, sets android:sharedUserId to android.uid.system, enabling any app on the device to read, write, and delete files as the system user. This can...

CVE-2016-10135

Technical details for CVE-2016-10135 are not publicly provided in the supplied documents; monitor for updates as connected sources do not reveal affected components or remediation.

CVE-2016-10136

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The content provider named com.adups.fota.sysoper.provider.InfoProvider in the app with a package name of com.adups.fota.sysoper allows any app on the device to read, write, and delete files as the system user. In the...