CVE-2016-7585

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.4 is affected. The issue involves mishandling of DMA in the "EFI" component. It allows physically proximate attackers to discover the FileVault 2 encryption password via a crafted Thunderbolt adapter...

CVE-2016-7585

CVE-2016-7585 affects macOS versions prior to 10.12.4, describing a DMA handling flaw in the EFI component that can allow a physically proximate attacker (via Thunderbolt) to recover the FileVault 2 encryption password. The connected sources confirm a pre-boot DMA risk targeting EFI and note miti...

Mac OS X 10.x < 10.12.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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macOS 10.12.x < 10.12.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (httpoxy)

The remote host is running a version of macOS that is 10.12.x prior to 10.12.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities in multiple components, some of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these remote code execution...

WikiLeaks Dark Matter Release Shows CIA Interdiction of iPhone Supply Chain

From the early days of the iPhone, the CIA has had an interest in compromising the flagship Apple mobile device, according to the latest WikiLeaks release of CIA documents. Today’s Vault 7 Dark Matter release shows an unsurprising interest from the intelligence agency in tracking iPhone users, as...

openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-2016-1087)

Virtualbox was updated to 5.0.26 to fix the following issues : This update fixes various security issues. - CVE-2016-3612: An unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component in Oracle Virtualization VirtualBox before 5.0.22 allowed remote attackers to affect confidentiality via...

PEI Stage Backdoor for UEFI Compatible Firmware: PeiBackdoor

PEI Stage Backdoor for UEFI Compatible Firmware This project implements early stage firmware backdoor for UEFI based firmware. It allows to execute arbitrary code written in C during Pre EFI Init PEI phase of Platform Initialization PI. This backdoor might be useful for low level manipulations wi...

VeraCrypt Audit Under Way; Email Mystery Cleared Up

Update To say the VeraCrypt audit, which begins today, got off to an inauspicious start would be an understatement. On Sunday, two weeks after the announcement that the open source file and disk encryption software would be formally scrutinized for security vulnerabilities, executives at one of t...

CVE-2016-5729

Lenovo BIOS EFI Driver allows local administrators to execute arbitrary code with System Management Mode SMM privileges via unspecified vectors...

Code injection

Lenovo BIOS EFI Driver allows local administrators to execute arbitrary code with System Management Mode SMM privileges via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2016-5729

CVE-2016-5729 is a Lenovo BIOS EFI Driver SMM code-execution vulnerability. A local attacker with administrative privileges can run arbitrary code in System Management Mode. Connected Lenovo advisory LEN-4901 confirms impact and provides per-product minimum fix versions (BIOS updates) to mitigate...

CVE-2016-5729

Lenovo BIOS EFI Driver allows local administrators to execute arbitrary code with System Management Mode SMM privileges via unspecified vectors...

Mac OS X 10.11.x < 10.11.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Mac OS X 10.9.5 or later < 10.11.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Fedora 22 : grub2-2.02-0.17.fc22 (2015-2c155d7632)

Rebuild without multiboot modules in the EFI image. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for grub2 (openSUSE-SU-2016:0036-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

VirusTotal Firmware Malware Implant Scanning

Successful attacks against firmware are rare but provide hackers with one thing they covet most: persistence. Advanced attack groups have already accelerated their capabilities in finding ways to burrow into the BIOS and EFI as noted by the Snowden leaks’ description of the NSA’s attempts to...

openSUSE Security Update : grub2 (openSUSE-2016-10)

Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password. bsc956631, CVE-2015-8370 - Check MS-DOS header to find PE file header. bsc954126 - Use dirname for copying Xen kernel and initrd to esp. bsc955493 - Fix reading password by grub2-mkpasswd-pbdk2 without controlling tty. bsc954519 - Add luks,...

Security update for grub2 (important)

Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password. bsc956631, CVE-2015-8370 - Check MS-DOS header to find PE file header. bsc954126 - Use dirname for copying Xen kernel and initrd to esp. bsc955493 - Fix reading password by grub2-mkpasswd-pbdk2 without controlling tty. bsc954519 - Add luks,...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : grub2 (SUSE-SU-2015:2387-1)

Fix buffer overflows when reading username and password. bsc956631, CVE-2015-8370 - Check MS-DOS header to find PE file header. bsc954126 - Use dirname for copying Xen kernel and initrd to esp. bsc955493 - Fix reading password by grub2-mkpasswd-pbdk2 without controlling tty. bsc954519 - Add luks,...