CVE-2018-11939

CVE-2018-11939 affects Qualcomm-based WLAN components (e.g., Snapdragon WLAN host/MDM platforms) where a use-after-issue in WLAN functionality occurs due to multiple ACS scan requests in parallel. The NVD entry lists a Local access vector with Low attack complexity and no authentication, yielding...

CVE-2018-11947

The txrx stats req might be double freed in the pdev detach when the host driver is unloading in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and...

Troy Hunt: 'Messy' Password Problem Isn't Getting Better

LONDON, UK – The security world is facing a major issue that has led to widespread breaches, data exposure, and more – and it all stems from millions of insecure passwords used for everything from enterprise PCs to internet of things IoT devices. Poor password hygiene – including reusing password...

IoT Security Regulation is on the Horizon

LONDON, UK – Internet of things IoT device security continues to worry the tech industry – however, experts believe that the right type of global regulation could be key for ensuring security standards. The question is when those regulatory efforts will be fleshed out. Ken Munro, with Pen Test...

Why Election Trust is Dwindling in a Post-Cambridge Analytica World

LONDON, UK – The 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica incident opened the world’s eyes to how much private user data was being collected, shared and sold. But experts worry that future ramifications of this scandal go way beyond Facebook and have created distrust in the election process as a whole...

Infosecurity Europe: Easing the Clash Between IT and Industrial Worlds

LONDON, UK – Information technology and operational technology are like two sides of the same coin. Their objectives are the same, but too often they don’t see eye-to-eye when it comes to priorities, according to cybersecurity experts. Information technology IT teams are tasked with securing and...

Smart-TV Bug Allows Rogue Broadcasts

An unpatched vulnerability in smart TVs would allow attackers on the same Wi-Fi network to hijack the TV set to broadcast their own content – including, potentially, fake emergency broadcast messages. Discovered by security researcher Dhiraj Mishra, the flaw CVE-2019-12477 is found in the SUPRA...

5G Security Challenges: A Vendor's POV

How are vendors preparing themselves for the onslaught of 5G networks from a security standpoint? When it comes to 5G there are a slew of use cases being utilized at the bleeding edge – from smart factories to IoT – but these are also opening up security risks. At the GSMA Mobile 360 Security for...

Don’t get burnt on pay day. How to buy IoT gadgets sensibly

As it’s the end of the month, and pay day for many, I thought some timely advice would be helpful for people itching to spend their money on IoT gadgets. It’s not all bad. While many manufacturers happily continue to fill shelves with dross, we know plenty of responsible companies whose products...

BlueHat Shanghai 2019: Amplifying the power of defensive partnerships around the world

Earlier this week BlueHat Shanghai brought together security researchers and hundreds of cybersecurity professionals from China and across Asia to explore the latest topics in cybersecurity research. Including presentations from Qihoo 360, Baidu, Alibaba and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, BlueH...

BlueHat Shanghai 2019: Amplifying the power of defensive partnerships around the world

Earlier this week BlueHat Shanghai brought together security researchers and hundreds of cybersecurity professionals from China and across Asia to explore the latest topics in cybersecurity research. Including presentations from Qihoo 360, Baidu, Alibaba and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, BlueH...

'5G is Coming,' But Can the Security Industry Keep Up?

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – With the advent of 5G, the tech community is bracing itself for new applications like self-driving cars and other IoT applications. But what does that mean for the security landscape? At the GSMA Mobile 360 Conference taking place this week in the Netherlands, experts she...

5G IoT: Literally a Matter of Life or Death

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Mobile operators need to get security right as they deploy their 5G networks this year and next – because the ramifications for getting it wrong will include loss of life. That’s the consensus at GSMA’s Mobile360 Security for 5G conference, where speakers on Wednesday not...

Smart door lock security who come to tube? Yale and the cover Terman smart locks 0 day vulnerability exposure! - Vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

With the continuous development of technology, smart home has been popular to people's Lives, Where smart locks product the majority of consumers like. From now on never go out forget to bring the key to the troubles, however the convenience of the smart lock products really safe? Today, the Smar...

CVE-2019-2244

Possible integer underflow can happen when calculating length of elementary stream info from invalid section length which is later used to read from input buffer in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT,...

CVE-2019-2250

Kernel can write to arbitrary memory address passed by user while freeing/stopping a thread in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in QCS605, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 835, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855, SD 8CX, SM7150, SXR1130...

CVE-2019-2245

Possible integer underflow can happen when calculating length of elementary stream map from invalid packet length which is later used to read from input buffer in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT,...

CVE-2019-2247

Possibility of double free issue while running multiple instances of smp2p test because of proper protection is missing while using global variable in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice &...

CVE-2018-11271

Improper authentication can happen on Remote command handling due to inappropriate handling of events in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9206, MDM9607,...

CVE-2018-11949

Failure to initialize the extra buffer can lead to an out of buffer access in WLAN function in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8996AU, QCS605, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD...