hardware: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS)

Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level micro-optimizations to improve the performance of writing data back to CPU caches. The write operation is split into STA STore Address and STD STore Data sub-operations. These sub-operations allow the processor to hand-off address generation...

CVE-2019-9861

Due to the use of an insecure RFID technology MIFARE Classic, ABUS proximity chip keys RFID tokens of the ABUS Secvest FUAA50000 wireless alarm system can easily be cloned and used to deactivate the alarm system in an unauthorized way...

Fedora Update for openocd FEDORA-2019-0a5e82cea8

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

How To Do Firmware Analysis. Tools, Tips, and Tricks

So, you’ve got a firmware dump. Perhaps a raw read off a chip? An update file you downloaded off the internet? Now what? Taking a firmware dump and turning it into something useful can sometimes be painful. Sometimes you’ll be faced with proprietary barely documented file formats, strange raw dat...

Google Patches Critical Bluetooth RCE Bug

Eleven critical Android bugs were patched as part of Google’s March Security Update. Three of them were tied to Android’s media framework and core system, while the others were related to faulty Qualcomm chip components. Out of those critical bugs, Google patched three critical remote...

Intel CPU Spoiler vulnerability alerts-a vulnerability alert-the black bar safety net

Spoiler is the researchers found that the impact of the Intel microprocessor architecture of a speculative attack a speculative attack is a new microprocessor disclosure vulnerability that leaks is about the physical page to the user space process mapping of key information. Spoiler with 2018 1 o...

CVE-2018-11845

Usage of non-time-constant comparison functions can lead to information leakage through side channel analysis in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile,...

What’s in the Box?

ARCHIVED STORY What’s in the Box? By Sam Quinn · February 25, 2019 2018 was another record-setting year in the continuing trend for consumer online shopping. With an increase in technology and efficiency, and a decrease in cost and shipping time, consumers have clearly made a statement that...

What’s in the Box?

ARCHIVED STORY What’s in the Box? By Sam Quinn · February 25, 2019 2018 was another record-setting year in the continuing trend for consumer online shopping. With an increase in technology and efficiency, and a decrease in cost and shipping time, consumers have clearly made a statement that...

Input validation

Improper input validation in the QTEE keymaster app can lead to invalid memory access in snapdragon mobile and snapdragon wear in versions MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 800, SD 810...

CVE-2017-8276

CVE-2017-8276 describes improper authorization involving a fuse in TrustZone affecting Qualcomm Snapdragon automotive, mobile, and wear platforms. Documented affected families include MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8996AU, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 439/SD 429, SD 4...

CVE-2018-5881

Improper validation of buffer length checks in the lwm2m device management protocol can leads to a buffer overflow in snapdragon mobile and snapdragon wear in versions MDM9206, MDM9607, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 625, SD 636, SD 835, SDA660, SDM630, SDM660...

Arbitrary Code Execution

ccid is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution attacks. The vulnerability exists as a signedness error in ccidserial.c in libccid in the USB Chip/Smart Card Interface Devices CCID driver, as used in pcscd in PCSC-Lite 1.5.3 and possibly other products, allows physically proximate attackers to...

PCI Announces Coming Qualified PIN Assessor (QPA) Program

Second only to protecting sensitive credit card account information, safeguarding the cardholders personal identification number PIN is one of the most important tasks for prevention of card-present fraud in retail and banking. With the continued movement toward chip-and-PIN EMV the technology...

CVE-2018-14853

A NULL pointer dereference in dhdprottxdatawriteflush in drivers/net/wireless/bcmdhd4358/dhdmsgbuf.c in the bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver on the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F G920FXXU5EQH7 allows an attacker who has obtained code execution on the Wi-Fi chip to cause the device to reboot. The Samsung ID is...

Input validation

Out-of-bounds array access in dhdrxframe in drivers/net/wireless/bcmdhd4358/dhdlinux.c in the bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver on the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F G920FXXU5EQH7 allows an attacker who has obtained code execution on the Wi-Fi chip to cause invalid accesses to operating system memory due to...

CVE-2018-14855

Buffer overflow in dhdbusflowringflushresponse in drivers/net/wireless/bcmdhd4358/dhdpcie.c in the bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver on the Samsung Galaxy S6 allow an attacker who has obtained code execution on the Wi-Fi chip to cause the device driver to perform invalid memory accesses. The Samsung ID is...

Google Android Soc Infrastructure Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, of which Soc Infrastructure is a SOC component. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Soc Infrastructure in Android, which arises from a program's failure to properly handle...

Chip Cards Fail to Reduce Credit Card Fraud in the US

A new study finds that credit card fraud has not declined since the introduction of chip cards in the US. The majority of stolen card information comes from hacked point-of-sale terminals. The reasons seem to be twofold. One, the US uses chip-and-signature instead of chip-and-PIN, obviating the...

U.S. Chip Cards Are Being Compromised in the Millions

Chip-and-PIN technology has become the de-facto standard for in-person credit- and debit-card transactions in the U.S. – but a lack of merchant compliance means that cards are still being compromised in the millions. Chip cards, which contain an embedded microprocessor that encrypts the card data...