Embedded device research. The tools you’ll need

Over the last couple of years, we’ve run many courses on embedded device security. The focus is often defensive, but all the courses have an aspect of offensive: hacking demonstration and real devices so that you can understand the mindset of an attacker. To hack devices, you need tools. And the...

CVE-2019-6672

On BIG-IP AFM 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.0.0-14.1.2, and 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, when bad-actor detection is configured on a wildcard virtual server on platforms with hardware-based sPVA, the performance of the BIG-IP AFM system is degraded...

The vulnerability of the ROUND_UP(n, d) component of the QEMU hardware emulator allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ROUNDUPn, d component of the QEMU hardware emulator is caused by integer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

The vulnerabilities of Siemens’ software and hardware infrastructure, related to errors in processing a large number of UDP packets, allow attackers to trigger service interruptions.

The vulnerability of Siemens’ software and hardware infrastructure is related to errors in processing a large number of UDP packets. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause service interruptions remotely...

The vulnerability of Siemens’ software and hardware devices, related to the possibility of disrupting time synchronization (IRT), allows a perpetrator to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of Siemens’ software and hardware devices is related to the possibility of disrupting time synchronization IRT. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to cause service failures...

hw: Intel GPU blitter manipulation can allow for arbitrary kernel memory write

A flaw was found in the Intel graphics hardware GPU, where a local attacker with the ability to issue commands to the GPU could inadvertently lead to memory corruption and possible privilege escalation. The attacker could use the GPU blitter to perform privilege MMIO operations, not limited to th...

The vulnerability of the Network Block Device (NBD) hardware emulation server in QEMU allows a hacker to induce a maintenance failure.

The vulnerability of the Network Block Device NBD emulation server of QEMU is related to an uncontrolled resource consumption. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to trigger a service failure through a specially crafted request...

Tianfu Cup Round-Up: Safari, Chrome, D-Link Routers and Office 365 Successfully Hacked

Hackers over the weekend successfully compromised widely used software and hardware–including browsers Safari and Chrome, D-Link routers and the Office 365 suite–using zero-day vulnerabilities at the annual Tianfu Cup gathering. The hacking competition, held in Chengdu, China, is very similar to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19067

Four memory leaks in the acphwinit function in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpuacp.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.8 allow attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering mfdaddhotplugdevices or pmgenpdadddevice failures, aka CID-57be09c6e874. NOTE: third parties dispute...

CVE-2019-19067

Four memory leaks in the acphwinit function in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpuacp.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.8 allow attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by triggering mfdaddhotplugdevices or pmgenpdadddevice failures, aka CID-57be09c6e874. NOTE: third parties dispute...

Seeker v1.1.9 - Accurately Locate Smartphones Using Social Engineering

Concept behind Seeker is simple, just like we host phishing pages to get credentials why not host a fake page that requests your location like many popular location based websites. Seeker Hosts a fake website on In Built PHP Server and uses Serveo to generate a link which we will forward to the...

TPM-Fail Attacks Against Cryptographic Coprocessors

Really interesting research: TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks, by Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Nadia Heninger. Abstract: Trusted Platform Module TPM serves as a hardware-based root of trust that protects cryptographic keys from privileged system and physical...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2019-2510)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : qemu was updated to v3.1.1.1, a stable, bug-fix-only release, which includes 2 fixes we already carry, as well as one additional use- after-free fix in slirp. CVE-2018-20126 bsc1119991, CVE-2019-14378 bsc1143794, and CVE-2019-15890 bsc1149811...

hw: Intel GPU blitter manipulation can allow for arbitrary kernel memory write

A flaw was found in the Intel graphics hardware GPU, where a local attacker with the ability to issue commands to the GPU could inadvertently lead to memory corruption and possible privilege escalation. The attacker could use the GPU blitter to perform privilege MMIO operations, not limited to th...

hw: Intel GPU blitter manipulation can allow for arbitrary kernel memory write

A flaw was found in the Intel graphics hardware GPU, where a local attacker with the ability to issue commands to the GPU could inadvertently lead to memory corruption and possible privilege escalation. The attacker could use the GPU blitter to perform privilege MMIO operations, not limited to th...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2510-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: qemu was updated to v3.1.1.1, a stable, bug-fix-only release, which includes 2 fixes we already carry, as well as one additional use- after-free fix in slirp. CVE-2018-20126 bsc1119991, CVE-2019-14378 bsc1143794, and CVE-2019-15890 bsc1149811...

Privilege Escalation

kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. A local attacker with the ability to issue commands to the GPU could inadvertently lead to memory corruption and possible privilege escalation due to a flaw in the Intel graphics hardware GPU. The attacker could use the GPU blitter to perform privileg...

Juniper Networks Junos OS Input Validation Error Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-41476)

Juniper Networks Junos OS is a Juniper Networks network operating system for the company's hardware devices. The OS provides a secure programming interface and the Junos SDK. An input validation error vulnerability exists in Juniper Networks Junos OS MX Series. The vulnerability originates from a...

Fedora 29 : 2:microcode_ctl / kernel / kernel-headers / kernel-tools (2019-7a3fc17778)

The 5.3.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important security updates across the tree, including mitigations for the most recent hardware issues disclosed on Nov 12. ---- The 5.3.9 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree ---- Update to upstream 2.1-22. 20190618 Note...

Debian DSA-4564-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leak. - CVE-2018-12207 It was discovered that on Intel CPUs supporting hardware virtualisation with Extended Page Tables EPT, a guest VM may manipulate the...