Android MediaTek hardware sensor driver boost vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, and MediaTek hardware sensor driver is a MediaTek-developed hardware sensor driver component used in it. A power lifting vulnerability exists in the MediaTek hardware sensor drive...

USN-3234-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-3234-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the ext4 implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

Intel, Microsoft Announce New Bug Bounties

Intel announced its first bug bounty program, offering up to $30,000 to researchers who find critical vulnerabilities in its hardware. The invite-only program, which is being run on the HackerOne platform, was announced today at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. Intel said its software,...

How to Remove and Replace a NetScaler in High Availability (HA) Pair Setup

This article helps you address RMA replacements and includes instruction on how to backup configurations, upgrade or downgrade shipped software version, and setup of RPC password on NetScaler. Before you Begin Label all interfaces/cables prior to swap Requirements A Windows client or server with...

Design/Logic Flaw

Sandbox detection evasion vulnerability in hardware appliances in McAfee now Intel Security Advanced Threat Defense MATD 3.4.2.32 and earlier allows attackers to detect the sandbox environment, then bypass proper malware detection resulting in failure to detect a malware file false-negative via...

CVE-2015-8986

CVE-2015-8986 is described as a sandbox-detection evasion vulnerability in McAfee/Intel Security Advanced Threat Defense (MATD) versions up to 3.4.2.32. The issue allows malware to detect the sandbox environment and bypass malware detection, resulting in false negatives. The available sources ide...

Platform Security Assessment Framework: ChipSec

Platform Security Assessment Framework CHIPSEC is a framework for analyzing security of PC platforms including hardware, system firmware including BIOS/UEFI and the configuration of platform components. It allows creating security test suite, security assessment tools for various low level...

cgPwn - Cyber Grand Pwnage Box

A lightweight VM for hardware hacking, RE fuzzing, symEx, exploiting etc and wargaming tasks. This is a Ubuntu VM tailored for hardware hacking, RE and Wargaming. Tools included Pwndbg Pwntools Binwalk Radare2 Capstone, Unicorn and Keystone Engines Qira Timeless Debugger AFL Valgrind , VGdb...

CVE-2017-0517

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek hardware sensor driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions...

CVE-2017-0516

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm input hardware driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0517

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek hardware sensor driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm input hardware driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

CVE-2017-0516

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm input hardware driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

CVE-2017-0516

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm input hardware driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions:...

CVE-2017-0516

CVE-2017-0516 is described as an elevation of privilege in the Qualcomm input hardware driver that could enable a local malicious app to execute code in the kernel context on Android devices. Public sources consistently list affected products as Android with kernel versions 3.10 and 3.18; Android...

CVE-2017-0517

CVE-2017-0517 is an elevation-of-privilege flaw in the MediaTek hardware sensor driver on Android. A local, privileged process or application could cause the kernel to execute arbitrary code. Affected component: MediaTek hardware sensor driver (Android). Impact: kernel context compromise; high se...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2017:0625-1)

This update for qemu fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5898: The CCID Card device emulator support was vulnerable to an integer overflow flaw allowing a privileged user to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in DoS bsc1023907. - CVE-2017-5857: The Virtio...

Security update of chromium (important)

Google chromium was updated to 56.0.2924.87: Various small fixes Disabled option to enable/disable plugins in the chrome://plugins - Changed the build requirement of libavformat to library version 57.41.100, as included in ffmpeg 3.1.1, as only this version properly supports the public AVStream A...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2017:0307)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2017:0307)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:0307 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: When creating audit records for...