Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager is a hardware-accelerated execution manager based on Intel's virtualization technology from Intel USA. A privilege extraction vulnerability exists in the IntelHAXM.sys driver in Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager versions prior to 6.0.6. A...

USN-3266-2 linux-hwe vulnerability

USN-3266-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Alexander Popov discovered that a race condition existed in the Stream Control Transmission...

The vulnerability of the iOS operating system, which allows a hacker to read data from the swap buffer

The vulnerability of the Pasteboard component in the iOS operating system is related to errors in managing cryptographic keys. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a local attacker to read data from the swap buffer using the encryption key obtained from the hardware UID...

What About the Plant Floor? Six Subversive Concerns for ICS Environments

Industrial enterprises such as electric utilities, petroleum companies, and manufacturing organizations invest heavily in industrial control systems ICS to efficiently, reliably, and safely operate industrial processes. Without this technology operating the plant floor, these businesses cannot...

What About the Plant Floor? Six Subversive Concerns for ICS Environments

Industrial enterprises such as electric utilities, petroleum companies, and manufacturing organizations invest heavily in industrial control systems ICS to efficiently, reliably, and safely operate industrial processes. Without this technology operating the plant floor, these businesses cannot...

Over The Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 2)

Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project Zero In this blog post we'll continue our journey into gaining remote kernel code execution, by means of Wi-Fi communication alone. Having previously developed a remote code execution exploit giving us control over Broadcom’s Wi-Fi SoC, we are now left with the ta...

IT Asset Inventory Systems and CMDBs: A Marriage Made in InfoSec Heaven

A key capability of an IT asset inventory system is being able to exchange data with CMDBs Configuration Management Databases. In fact, a common misconception is that organizations with CMDBs don’t need an IT asset inventory system because their functions overlap. While they have similar roles,...

Edit and Replay Network Traffic: tcpreplay

Edit and Replay Network Traffic Tcpreplay is a suite of GPLv3 licensed utilities for UNIX and Win32 under Cygwin operating systems for editing and replaying network traffic which was previously captured by tools like tcpdump and Ethereal / Wireshark . It allows you to classify traffic as client o...

Understanding the Capacity Management Challenges of Database Monitoring Solutions

Database monitoring requires hardware resources such as storage space and processing power that can withstand the volume of database usage in your organization. A higher usage volume will require more resources. So how can you optimize the resources used by your database monitoring solution? Do y...

The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the NetRxPkt component of the QEMU hardware emulation software is caused by a buffer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a service failure by engaging in actions related to VLANs...

The vulnerability of the QEMU hardware emulation software, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the sdhcisdmatransfermultiblocks function in the hw/sd/sdhci.c file of the QEMU hardware/software emulator is related to improper management of system resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating locally, to trigger a service failure infinite loop...

Troubleshooting Retries on Provisioned Virtual Machines

What is a retry? When a target streams a vDisk image, it does so by requesting blocks of data from the PVS server, which in turn replies with the requested data. This data is broken down into several packets called fragments. A retry occurs when a target device requests data from the PVS server a...

USN-3256-2 linux-hwe, linux-lts-trusty, linux-lts-xenial vulnerability

USN-3256-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel for each of the respective prior Ubuntu LTS releases. Andrey Konovalov discovered that the...

D-Link DIR-615 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

D-Link DIR-615 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Title: ==== D-Link DIR 615 HW: T1 FW:20.09 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability Credit: ====== Name: Pratik S. Shah Reference: ========= CVE Details: CVE-2017-7398. Date: ==== 1-04-2017 Vendor: ====== D-Link wireless router...

Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation in IntelHAXM.sys driver in the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager before version 6.0.6 allows a local user to gain system level access...

CVE-2017-5683

Privilege escalation in IntelHAXM.sys driver in the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager before version 6.0.6 allows a local user to gain system level access...

CVE-2017-5683

Privilege escalation in IntelHAXM.sys driver in the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager before version 6.0.6 allows a local user to gain system level access...

PT-2017-16669

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager versions prior to 6.0.6 Description The issue allows a local user to gain system-level access due to a privilege escalation in the IntelHAXM.sys driver. Recommendations For versions prior to 6.0.6,...

Hardware Firewall Detection via TLS/SSL

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CVE-2017-2399

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3 is affected. The issue involves the "Pasteboard" component. It allows physically proximate attackers to read the pasteboard by leveraging the use of an encryption key derived only from the hardware UID rather than that UID in...