IoT: a malware story

Since 2008, cyber-criminals have been creating malware to attack IoT-devices, such as routers and other types of network equipment. You will find a lot of statistics on this on Securelist, most notably, here and here. The main problem with these IoT/embedded devices is that one simply cannot...

uniFuzzer - A Fuzzing Tool For Closed-Source Binaries Based On Unicorn And LibFuzzer

uniFuzzer is a fuzzing tool for closed-source binaries based on Unicorn and LibFuzzer. Currently it supports fuzzing 32-bits LSB ELF files on ARM/MIPS, which are usually seen in IoT devices. 中文介绍 Features very little hack and easy to build can target any specified function or code snippet...

This Week in Security News: How a Partnership can Advance DevSecOps and Cybersecurity Issues in the Midwest and South U.S.

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how Trend Micro’s partnership with Snyk will advance DevSecOps. Also, read about cyber attacks affecting hospitals in Alabama an...

CVE-2019-13120

Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory contents on a device to an attacker. If an attacker has the authorization to send a malformed MQTT publish packet to an Amazon IoT Thing, which...

Security feature bypass

Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory contents on a device to an attacker. If an attacker has the authorization to send a malformed MQTT publish packet to an Amazon IoT Thing, which...

CVE-2019-13120

CVE-2019-13120 affects Amazon FreeRTOS up to v1.4.8. The vulnerability arises from insufficient length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, which can cause untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory on a device when an attacker sends a malformed MQTT publish to an Amazon IoT Thing interacting wit...

CVE-2019-13120

Amazon FreeRTOS up to and including v1.4.8 lacks length checking in prvProcessReceivedPublish, resulting in untargetable leakage of arbitrary memory contents on a device to an attacker. If an attacker has the authorization to send a malformed MQTT publish packet to an Amazon IoT Thing, which...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc30

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

Answering IoT Security Questions for CISOs

Given the permeating nature of IoT and Industrial IoT devices in our daily lives, from smart homes to smart cities, one cannot escape the growing cybersecurity risks associated with these devices. It might leave CISOs with a lot of questions about how this newer, growing attack vector could impac...

This Week in Security News: How a GIF Can Hack Your Android and Vulnerabilities That Could Put Hospital Networks at Risk

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how smart home devices can be easily hacked and 11 vulnerabilities that could affect medical devices and hospital networks. Also...

OSINT for Avionics

One of the biggest challenges with avionics research is simply getting hold of equipment to work on. Current equipment is frighteningly expensive – think $100,000 and up for some components, reflecting the relatively short production run, high reliability requirement and significant certification...

Measuring the Security of IoT Devices

In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. Data Collected: 22 Vendors 1,294 Products 4,956 Firmware versions 3,333,411 Binaries analyzed Date range of data: 2003-03-24 to 2019-01-24 varies by vendo...

Building the Azure IoT Edge Security Daemon in Rust

Azure IoT Edge is an open source, cross platform software project from the Azure IoT team at Microsoft that seeks to solve the problem of managing distribution of compute to the edge of your on-premise network from the cloud. This post explains some of the rationale behind our choice of Rust as t...

CVE-2019-2341

Buffer overflow when the audio buffer size provided by user is larger than the maximum allowable audio buffer size. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in...

Null pointer dereference

BT process died and BT toggled due to null pointer dereference when invalid vendor pass through command sent from remote in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, QCS605, SD 636, SD 675, SD 730, SD 820A, SD 835, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855,...

Null pointer dereference

Possible null-pointer dereference can occur while parsing avi clip during copy in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU,...

CVE-2019-2294

Usage of hard-coded magic number for calculating heap guard bytes can allow users to corrupt heap blocks without heap algorithm knowledge in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial...

CVE-2019-10540

Buffer overflow in WLAN NAN function due to lack of check of count value received in NAN availability attribute in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile,...

CVE-2019-10509

Device record of the pairing device used after free during ACL disconnection in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCA6574AU,...

CVE-2019-10501

Possible use after free issue due to improper input validation in volume listener library in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, MSM8909W,...