CVE-2019-10565

CVE-2019-10565 describes a double-free vulnerability in Snapdragon socs (Snapdragon Auto/Compute/CS/IoT/Wearables, etc.) where freeing sensor power settings in one thread while another accesses the object can corrupt memory. Affected components include APQ8053, MDM92xx, SDM845, QCS605/SDX24, SXR1...

CVE-2019-10542

Buffer over-read may occur when downloading a corrupted firmware file that has chunk length in header which doesnt match the contents in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music i...

CVE-2019-10534

Null-pointer dereference can occur while accessing the super index entry when it is not been allocated in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8909W,...

CVE-2019-10541

Dereference on uninitialized buffer can happen when parsing FLV clip with corrupted codec specific data in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8909W,...

CVE-2019-10529

CVE-2019-10529 is a use-after-free race in Qualcomm’s KGSL kernel path when marking user entries dirty via set_page_dirty, occurring if page->mapping is freed concurrently. It affects Snapdragon/KGSL GPU components and is associated with a documented exploit (exploit-db 46941). The provided do...

CVE-2019-10515

DCI client which might be preemptively freed up might be accessed for transferring packets leading to kernel error in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640,...

CVE-2019-10502

CVE-2019-10502 is a stack overflow vulnerability described across multiple Qualcomm Snapdragon camera implementations. The issue arises when an index equal to the I/O buffer size is accessed within the camera module, affecting a wide range of Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IoT, Snapdrago...

Trend Micro Discloses Insider Threat Impacting Some of its Consumer Customers

We recently became aware of a security incident that resulted in the unauthorized disclosure of some personal data of an isolated number of customers of our consumer product. We immediately started investigating the situation and found that this was the result of a malicious insider threat. The...

Stalkerware developer dealt new blow by FTC

Last week, the US Federal Trade Commission FTC interpreted its broad consumer protection mandate to file a first-of-its-kind enforcement action against the developer of three mobile stalkerware applications. The developer was banned from further selling the apps unless significant changes were ma...

Key Compliance Concepts for Financial Services

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX was introduced following a number of financial scandals involving huge conglomerates and obliges companies to establish internal controls to prevent fraud and abuse, holding senior managers accountable for the accuracy of financial reporting. The financial crisis in 200...

Objections to IoT regulation. A rational reply

I often hear objections to consumer IoT regulation, specifically IoT security regulation. It's typically from industry lobby groups that have a vested interest in keeping regulation very ‘light touch’. Their mantra is: It’ll stifle innovation and increase cost I strongly disagree, and here’s why...

Data collectors

Who owns data owns the world. And with the Internet taking over much of our daily lives, it has become far easier and faster to receive, collect, and analyze data. The average user cannot even imagine how much data gets collected on them. Besides technical information for example, about a...

Privacy Groups: Ring's Police Partnerships Can Lead to Sinister Ends

More than 30 privacy and consumer advocacy groups are urging local legislators to intervene in doorbell-camera company Ring’s partnerships with law enforcement. In 2018, Amazon-owned Ring announced that it was starting a “new neighborhood watch” effort, to allow homeowners to provide voluntary...

A week in security (September 30 – October 6)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, Malwarebytes renewed its pledge to fight stalkerware for National Cybersecurity Awareness NCSA and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We also looked into what security orchestration is and reported about partnering with security firm, HYAS, to determine the...

AG Barr, Officials to Facebook: Don't Encrypt Messaging

U.S. Attorney General William Barr is among government officials asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to halt or at least delay a plan to add end-to-end encryption to its messaging services in an effort to bolster consumer privacy. The move, unveiled Thursday, once again sparked the privacy debate...

CVE-2019-2341

Buffer overflow when the audio buffer size provided by user is larger than the maximum allowable audio buffer size. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in...

CVE-2019-10506

While processing QCANL80211VENDORSUBCMDAVOIDFREQUENCY vendor command, driver does not validate the data obtained from the user space which could be invalid and thus leads to an undesired behaviour in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdrago...

Null pointer dereference

BT process died and BT toggled due to null pointer dereference when invalid vendor pass through command sent from remote in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, QCS605, SD 636, SD 675, SD 730, SD 820A, SD 835, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855,...

Null pointer dereference

Possible null-pointer dereference can occur while parsing avi clip during copy in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU,...

CVE-2019-10498

Buffer overflow scenario if the client sends more than 5 iovec requests to the server in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640...