Design/Logic Flaw

The mDNIe system service on Samsung Mobile S7 devices with M6.0 software does not properly restrict setmDNIeScreenCurtain API calls, enabling attackers to control a device's screen. This can be exploited via a crafted application to eavesdrop after phone shutdown or record a conversation. The...

Updated libssh2 packages fix security vulnerability

Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2 passes the number of bytes to a function that expects number of bits during the SSHv2 handshake when libssh2 is to get a suitable value for 'group order' in the Diffie-Hellman negotiation. This weakens significantly the handshake security, potentially...

MGASA-2016-0392 Updated libssh2 packages fix security vulnerability

Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2 passes the number of bytes to a function that expects number of bits during the SSHv2 handshake when libssh2 is to get a suitable value for 'group order' in the Diffie-Hellman negotiation. This weakens significantly the handshake security, potentially...

Huawei OceanStor 5600 Product Hardcoded SSH Key Vulnerability

Huawei OceanStor 5600 is a storage product from Huawei China. The Huawei OceanStor 5600 product suffers from a hard-coded SSH key vulnerability. The SSH protocol is used for encrypted communication between the nodes of the device, and since the SSH public and private keys are stored in hard-coded...

Skyping And Typing Threatens Privacy

Multitasking while on a work-related Skype call may be good for productivity, but perhaps not so much for privacy. Typing while using Skype or over other Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP services presents an opportunity for an attacker to record the conversation, separate out the emanations from...

Multiple Vulnerabilities Identified in 'Utterly Broken' BHU Routers

Researchers have identified a router so fraught with vulnerabilities and so “utterly broken” that it can be exploited to do pretty much anything. An attacker could bypass its authentication, peruse sensitive information stored in the router’s system logs and even use the device to execute OS...

CVE-2016-2379

The Mxit protocol uses weak encryption when encrypting user passwords, which might allow attackers to 1 decrypt hashed passwords by leveraging knowledge of client registration codes or 2 gain login access by eavesdropping on login messages and re-using the hashed passwords...

KeySniffer Vulnerability Opens Wireless Keyboards to Snooping

Wireless keyboards made by eight different companies suffer from a vulnerability that can allow attackers to eavesdrop on keystrokes from up to 250 feet away, researchers warned Tuesday. If exploited, the vulnerability, dubbed KeySniffer, could let an attacker glean passwords, credit card numbers...

Jetstar App for iOS fails to verify SSL server certificates

Overview Jetstar App for iOS provided by Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd. fails to verify SSL server certificates. Yuta TESHIMA of Cyber Defense Institute, Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact A...

105 BANK App fails to verify SSL server certificates

Overview 105 BANK App provided by THE HYAKUGO BANK, LTD. is a mobile app for internet banking. 105 BANK App fails to verify SSL server certificates. Yuji Tounai of NTT Com Security Japan KK reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Ear...

Cybozu KUNAI App Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

Cybozu KUNAI is a set of Cybozu's licensed software applications for quick access to Cybozu's licensed software. A security vulnerability exists in Cybozu KUNAI, which is caused by the program failing to validate SSL server certificates. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to conduct a...

Cybozu kintone for Android Validated SSL Server Certificate Vulnerability

Cybozu kintone for Android is an Android-based business cloud application for business communication and collaboration by Cybozu. A security vulnerability exists in Cybozu kintone for Android versions 1.0.0 to 1.0.5, which can be exploited by attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks and...

PHP Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is an open source general-purpose computer scripting language maintained by the PHP Group and the open source community. A security vulnerability exists in the MySQL native driver for PHP, which can be exploited by an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack,...

Tokyo Star bank App Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Tokyo Star bank App for Android and iOS is a suite of banking apps for the Android and iOS platforms from Tokyo Star Bank in Japan. The Tokyo Star bank App for Android and iOS fails to validate server-side SSL certificates, allowing an attacker to exploit this vulnerability to conduct...

Quanta LTE Router Code Execution / Backdoor Accounts

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Advisory Information Title: Multiple vulnerabilities found in Quanta LTE routers backdoor, backdoor accounts, RCE, weak WPS ... Advisory URL: https://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/2016-quanta-0x00.txt Blog URL:...

MGASA-2016-0082 Updated libssh packages fix CVE-2016-0739

Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerability: libssh versions 0.1 and above have a bits/bytes confusion bug and generate an abnormally short ephemeral secret for the diffie-hellman-group1 and diffie-hellman-group14 key exchange methods. The resulting secret is 128 bits long, instead of the...

Debian DLA-426-1 : libssh2 security update

Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2, an SSH2 protocol implementation used by many applications, did not generate sufficiently long Diffie-Hellman secrets. This vulnerability could be exploited by an eavesdropper to decrypt and to intercept SSH sessions. For the oldoldstable distribution...

Debian DSA-3487-1 : libssh2 - security update

Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2, a SSH2 client-side library, passes the number of bytes to a function that expects number of bits during the SSHv2 handshake when libssh2 is to get a suitable value for'group order' in the Diffie-Hellman negotiation. This weakens significantly the handshake...

USN-2912-1 libssh vulnerabilities

Mariusz Ziulek discovered that libssh incorrectly handled certain packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libssh to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2015-3146 Aris Adamantiadis discovered that libssh incorrectly generated ephemeral secret keys of 128 bits...

Automated Evil Twin Attack: infernal-twin

Evil twin is a term for a rogue Wi-Fi access point that appears to be a legitimate one offered on the premises, but actually has been set up to eavesdrop on wireless communications. An evil twin is the wireless version of the phishing scam. An attacker fools wireless users into connecting a lapto...