October 2019 - What's New in Web Performance?

Today, Akamai announced the October 2019 Release, which introduces new capabilities to the Performance product line with a focus on helping customers deliver superior experiences with the power of the Edge. Here are some highlights from the release with additional detail below. EdgeWorkers enable...

Mozilla Spidermonkey - Unboxed Objects Uninitialized Memory Access Exploit

/ Mozilla Spidermonkey - Unboxed Objects Uninitialized Memory Access For constructors, Spidermonkey implements a "definite property analysis" 1 to compute which properties will definitely exist on the constructed objects. Spidermonkey then directly allocates the constructed objects with the final...

The vulnerability of the ION memory distribution subsystem of the Android operating system allows a hacker to modify data on the device and gain root privileges.

The vulnerability of the ION memory distribution subsystem of the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control between applications and the operating system. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to modify data on the device and gain root privileges throu...

CVE-2018-3574

In all android releases Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android from CAF using the linux kernel, userspace can request ION cache maintenance on a secure ION buffer for which the IONFLAGSECURE ion flag is not set and cause the kernel to attempt to perform cache maintenance on memory which...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-3574

In all android releases Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android from CAF using the linux kernel, userspace can request ION cache maintenance on a secure ION buffer for which the IONFLAGSECURE ion flag is not set and cause the kernel to attempt to perform cache maintenance on memory which...

Design/Logic Flaw

In all android releases Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android from CAF using the linux kernel, userspace can request ION cache maintenance on a secure ION buffer for which the IONFLAGSECURE ion flag is not set and cause the kernel to attempt to perform cache maintenance on memory which...

CVE-2018-3574

In all android releases Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android from CAF using the linux kernel, userspace can request ION cache maintenance on a secure ION buffer for which the IONFLAGSECURE ion flag is not set and cause the kernel to attempt to perform cache maintenance on memory which...

CVE-2018-3574

In all android releases Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android from CAF using the linux kernel, userspace can request ION cache maintenance on a secure ION buffer for which the IONFLAGSECURE ion flag is not set and cause the kernel to attempt to perform cache maintenance on memory which...

CVE-2018-3574

In all android releases Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android from CAF using the linux kernel, userspace can request ION cache maintenance on a secure ION buffer for which the IONFLAGSECURE ion flag is not set and cause the kernel to attempt to perform cache maintenance on memory which...

Rowhammer Variant ‘RAMpage’ Targets Android Devices All Over Again

Researchers have found a new variation of the Rowhammer attack technique they have dubbed RAMpage. The vulnerability could allow an adversary to create an exploit to gain administrative control over targeted Android smartphones and tablets. The flaw impacts Android devices dating back to 2012...

Google Android Device RAMpage Vulnerability

Rowhammer is a hardware reliability issue for the new generation of DRAM chips. rampage is a variant of the Rowhammer attack. Google Android devices suffer from the RAMpage vulnerability. An attacker can gain root privileges on the target device by exploiting the previously publicized Drammer...

Debian DSA-4116-1 : plasma-workspace - security update

Krzysztof Sieluzycki discovered that the notifier for removable devices in the KDE Plasma workspace performed insufficient sanitisation of FAT/VFAT volume labels, which could result in the execution of arbitrary shell commands if a removable device with a malformed disk label is mounted. C Tenabl...

CVE-2017-1664

IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 133557...

CVE-2017-9724

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, user-level permissions can be used to gain access to kernel memory, specifically the ION cache maintenance code is writing to a user supplied address...

CVE-2017-9724

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, user-level permissions can be used to gain access to kernel memory, specifically the ION cache maintenance code is writing to a user supplied address...

CVE-2017-9724

CVE-2017-9724 affects Qualcomm products running CAF Android builds with the Linux kernel. The root cause is in the ION cache maintenance code, where kernel memory could be written from a user-supplied address due to user-level permissions. This allows a local attacker to Access kernel memory (loc...

CVE-2017-9724

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, user-level permissions can be used to gain access to kernel memory, specifically the ION cache maintenance code is writing to a user supplied address...

Google Android Qualcomm Linux kernel privilege acquisition vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, and the Qualcomm Linux kernel is one of the Qualcomm Linux kernels. A security vulnerability exists in the Qualcomm Linux kernel in Android. An attacker can exploit the...

CVE-2017-0651

An information disclosure vulnerability in the kernel ION subsystem could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Low because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.18. Android...

CVE-2017-0651

An information disclosure vulnerability in the kernel ION subsystem could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Low because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.18. Android...