Mapbox: Mapbox Android SDK uses Broadcast Receiver instead of Local Broadcast Manager

Security researcher @mishre reported that the Mapbox Android SDK was using the Broadcast Receiver for location services requests and recommended that the switch be made to use the Local Broadcast Manager. The Local Broadcast Manager offers more granular control of broadcast permissions, as well a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ntp on SL7.x x86_64 (20161103)

Security Fixes : - It was found that the fix for CVE-2014-9750 was incomplete: three issues were found in the value length checks in NTP's ntpcrypto.c, where a packet with particular autokey operations that contained malicious data was not always being completely validated. A remote attacker coul...

Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) 4.x < 4.2.8p9 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of the remote NTP server is 4.x prior to 4.2.8p9. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A denial of service vulnerability exists when rate limiting is configured for all associations, the limits also being applied to responses received from the configured...

X (Formerly Twitter): Twitter for android is exposing user's location to any installed android app

Hi, I have noticed that while a user is using the location feature in twitter's android application twitter is sending the user's location to all other locally installed applications without verifying the possible malicious receivers By sending a broadcast. As a poc I have created an application...

[ASA-201611-28] ntp: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201611-28 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2016-11-26 CVE-ID : CVE-2016-7426 CVE-2016-7427 CVE-2016-7428 CVE-2016-7429 CVE-2016-7431 CVE-2016-7433 CVE-2016-7434 CVE-2016-9310 CVE-2016-9311 Package : ntp Type : multiple issues Remote...

ntpd Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-11431)

Network Time Protocol NTP is a protocol used to synchronize a computer's time to its server or clock source e.g., quartz clock, GPS, etc.. Synchronizing a computer's clock to UTC ensures that data interactions in a network can proceed smoothly.NTPD Network Time Protocol daemon is an operating...

ntpd broadcast mode replay defense denial of service vulnerability

Network Time Protocol NTP is a protocol used to synchronize a computer's time to its server or clock source e.g., quartz clock, GPS, etc.. Synchronizing a computer's clock to UTC ensures that data interactions in a network can proceed smoothly.NTPD Network Time Protocol daemon is an operating...

CVE-2016-7428

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service reject broadcast mode packets via the poll interval in a broadcast packet. Mitigation Only use broadcast mode on trusted networks...

CVE-2016-7427

The broadcast mode replay prevention functionality in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service reject broadcast mode packets via a crafted broadcast mode packet...

ntpd Broadcast Mode Denial of Service Vulnerability

Network Time Protocol NTP is a protocol used to synchronize a computer's time to its server or clock source e.g., quartz clock, GPS, etc.. Synchronizing a computer's clock to UTC ensures that data interactions in a network can proceed smoothly.NTPD Network Time Protocol daemon is an operating...

Network Time Protocol Broadcast Mode Poll Interval Enforcement Denial of Service Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the broadcast mode poll interval enforcement functionality of ntpd. To limit abuse, ntpd restricts the rate at which each broadcast association will process incoming packets. ntpd will reject broadcast mode packets that arrive befor...

NTP.org ntpd contains multiple denial of service vulnerabilities

Overview NTP.org ntpd versions ntp-4.2.7p385 up to but not including ntp-4.2.8p9 and ntp-4.3.0 up to but not including ntp-4.3.94 contain multiple denial of service vulnerabilities. Description NTP.org's ntpd, versions ntp-4.2.7p385 up to but not including ntp-4.2.8p9 and ntp-4.3.0 up to but not...

Network Time Protocol Broadcast Mode Replay Prevention Denial of Service Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the broadcast mode replay prevention functionality of ntpd. To prevent replay of broadcast mode packets, ntpd rejects broadcast mode packets with non-monotonically increasing transmit timestamps. Remote unauthenticated attackers can...

Mozilla Firefox Privilege Access Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-11469)

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. Mozilla Firefox has a security vulnerability, an attacker can use the API key glocation in the broadcast protection through the pre-installed application to define the same permissions can be...

Zendesk: Android SDK - CREATE_REQUEST broascast is unprotected

The researcher identified that CREATEREQUEST broadcast in Zopim's android SDK was unprotected...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ntp security and bug fix update

An update for ntp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CV...

ntp: off-path denial of service on authenticated broadcast mode

It was found that when NTP was configured in broadcast mode, a remote attacker could broadcast packets with bad authentication to all clients. The clients, upon receiving the malformed packets, would break the association with the broadcast server, causing them to become out of sync over a longer...

CVE-2016-7988

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.Samsung.android.intent.action.SETWIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of...

USN-3096-1: NTP vulnerabilities

Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP incorrectly handled authenticated broadcast mode. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform a replay attack. CVE-2015-7973 Matt Street discovered that NTP incorrectly verified peer associations of symmetric keys. A remote attacker could use this issue ...

Cisco NX-OS Software Malformed DHCPv4 Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the implementation of the DHCPv4 relay agent in Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of malformed DHCPv4 packets. An attacker could...