A Dozen Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Bluetooth LE Powered Devices

A team of cybersecurity researchers late last week disclosed the existence of 12 potentially severe security vulnerabilities, collectively named 'SweynTooth,' affecting millions of Bluetooth-enabled wireless smart devices worldwide—and worryingly, a few of which haven't yet been patched. All...

CVE-2019-19194

The Bluetooth Low Energy Secure Manager Protocol SMP implementation on Telink Semiconductor BLE SDK versions before November 2019 for TLSR8x5x through 3.4.0, TLSR823x through 1.3.0, and TLSR826x through 3.3 devices installs a zero long term key LTK if an out-of-order link-layer encryption request...

hardware: bluetooth: BR/EDR encryption key negotiation attacks (KNOB)

A flaw was discovered in the Bluetooth protocol. An attacker within physical proximity to the Bluetooth connection could downgrade the encryption protocol to be trivially brute forced...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:3200-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-19081: Fixed a memory leak in the nfpflowerspawnvnicreprs could have allowed attackers to cause a denial of service bsc1157045. CVE-2019-19080: Fixed fou...

The snooping girl on a train, again. How to compromise a business

So, I’m on a train, again, sat at a four-seat table, next to two men facing each other. From their conversation and interactions I’ve concluded that they are colleagues. The chap to my left is clearly working on implementation plans for a building management system, for a company I know yeah, I g...

SUSE-SU-2019:2710-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-18595: A double free may be caused by the function allocatetracebuffer in the file kernel/trace/trace.c bnc1149555. - CVE-2019-14821: An out-of-bounds...

SUSE-SU-2019:2706-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-15291: There was a NULL pointer dereference, caused by a malicious USB device in the flexcopusbprobe function in the drivers/media/usb/b2c2/flexcop-usb.c...

August 13, 2019—KB4512517 (OS Build 14393.3144)

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Code injection

Nespresso Prodigio devices lack Bluetooth connection security...

On the IoT road: perks, benefits and security of moving smartly

Kaspersky has repeatedly investigated security issues related to IoT technologies for instance, here, or here. Earlier this year our experts have even gained foothold in the security of biomechanical prosthetic devices. The same implies to smart car security: our own research has indicated that...

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CVE-2019-12500

The CVE-2019-12500 entry concerns the Xiaomi M365 scooter. The vulnerability is rooted in Bluetooth Low Energy commands lacking server-side authentication, enabling spoofing of critical controls such as a sudden acceleration, braking, locking, and unlocking. Affected firmware is prior to 1.5.1. D...

CVE-2018-9540

The CVE-2018-9540 issue affects Android’s Bluetooth stack. In avrc_ctrl_pars_vendor_rsp (avrc_pars_ct.c) a missing bounds check allows an out-of-bounds read, enabling remote information disclosure over Bluetooth without user interaction or added privileges. Affected: Android 7.0–9 (Android-7.0, 7...

Google 'Titan Security Key' Is Now On Sale For $50

Google just made its Titan Security Key available on its store for $50. First announced last month at Google Cloud Next '18 convention, Titan Security Key is a tiny USB device—similar to Yubico's YubiKey—that offers hardware-based two-factor authentication 2FA for online accounts with the highest...

Tips for safe summer travels: your cybersecurity checklist

Summer is just around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes vacation plans for many. Those looking to take some time away from work and home are likely making plans to secure their home, have their pets taken care of, and tie up loose ends at work. But how about securing your...

‘Hacking’ the Nespresso Prodigio and Jura E8 coffee machines

You’ll probably know by now that I have a particular interest in the security of IoT coffee machines and tea kettles. Sometimes security is so poor that we have to laugh. Such simple security issues. Now, when I’m feeling lazy and possibly a bit hung over, I really can’t be bothered to make coffe...

CVE-2018-9119

An attacker with physical access to a BrilliantTS FUZE card MCU firmware 0.1.73, BLE firmware 0.7.4 can unlock the card, extract credit card numbers, and tamper with data on the card via Bluetooth because no authentication is needed, as demonstrated by gatttool...

Android Bluetooth - BNEP bnep_data_ind() Remote Heap Disclosure

import os import sys import struct import bluetooth BNEPPSM = 15 BNEPFRAMECOMPRESSEDETHERNET = 0x02 LEAKATTEMPTS = 20 def leaksrcbdaddr, dst: bnep = bluetooth.BluetoothSocketbluetooth.L2CAP bnep.settimeout5 bnep.bindsrcbdaddr, 0 print 'Connecting to BNEP...' bnep.connectdst, BNEPPSM...

SUSE-SU-2018:0268-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 18 for SLE 12 SP1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606451 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-15868: The bnepaddconnection function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c in did not ensure that an l2cap socket is available, which allowed local users to gain privileges via a...