Chinese Hackers discovered second Android master key vulnerability

Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The...

New App ReKey Fixes Android Master Key Vulnerability

The Android master key vulnerability disclosed a couple of weeks ago puts nearly all Android phones at risk of attacks that can modify legitimate apps with malicious code that would give the attacker full control of the device. Google has released a patch, but Android users are dependent upon the...

Chinese Hackers discovered second Android master key vulnerability

Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The...

Another Android Master Key Attack Published

A second Android Master Key attack has been reported that takes advantage of the vulnerability in the way Android reads APK files, enabling hackers to modify signed legitimate apps with malware. The vulnerability occurs in the way Android conducts integrity checks on APK files. An attacker could...

CVE-2013-4787

Android 1.6 Donut through 4.2 Jelly Bean does not properly check cryptographic signatures for applications, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via an application package file APK that is modified in a way that does not violate the cryptographic signature, probably involving multiple...

CVE-2013-4787

Android 1.6–4.2 (Donut to Jelly Bean) contains a flaw in verifying APK cryptographic signatures: an APK.modified file with duplicate Zip entries may be installed despite one entry being validated, enabling arbitrary code execution via the Master Key vulnerability. The issue arises from inconsiste...

CVE-2013-4787

Android 1.6 Donut through 4.2 Jelly Bean does not properly check cryptographic signatures for applications, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via an application package file APK that is modified in a way that does not violate the cryptographic signature, probably involving multiple...

CVE-2013-0158

Unspecified vulnerability in Jenkins before 1.498, Jenkins LTS before 1.480.2, and Jenkins Enterprise 1.447.x before 1.447.6.1 and 1.466.x before 1.466.12.1, when a slave is attached and anonymous read access is enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain the master cryptographic key via unknown...

jenkins: remote unauthenticated retrieval of master cryptographic key (Jenkins Security Advisory 2013-01-04)

Unspecified vulnerability in Jenkins before 1.498, Jenkins LTS before 1.480.2, and Jenkins Enterprise 1.447.x before 1.447.6.1 and 1.466.x before 1.466.12.1, when a slave is attached and anonymous read access is enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain the master cryptographic key via unknown...

CVE-2012-4578

The geli encryption provider 7 before r239184 on FreeBSD 10 uses a weak Master Key, which makes it easier for local users to defeat a cryptographic protection mechanism via a brute-force attack...

Design/Logic Flaw

The geli encryption provider 7 before r239184 on FreeBSD 10 uses a weak Master Key, which makes it easier for local users to defeat a cryptographic protection mechanism via a brute-force attack...

CVE-2012-4578

The CVE-2012-4578 entry describes a vulnerability in the geli encryption provider 7 before r239184 on FreeBSD 10 where a weak Master Key is used. This weakness could allow a local attacker to defeat the cryptographic protection via brute-forcing. Documents identify the affected component as geli ...

CVE-2012-4578

The geli encryption provider 7 before r239184 on FreeBSD 10 uses a weak Master Key, which makes it easier for local users to defeat a cryptographic protection mechanism via a brute-force attack...

November, 2010: PS3 Master Key Hacked Retweeted – by Sony

Maybe the only thing worse than having the master key to your company’s incredibly valuable video gaming platform published online by a brilliant and iconoclastic hacker is having the social networking account for the fictitious TV personality your company spent millions of dollars creating forwa...

November, 2010: PS3 Master Key Hacked, Leaked

Like most game and console vendors, Sony fights a never-ending battle for control of its own platform against a shadowy community of hacker enthusiasts and modders who want to exploit Sony’s hardware for all its worth. It’s a near-constant cat and mouse game, which made the 2010 hack of the...

CVE-2011-0651

Buffer overflow in the key exchange functionality in Icon Labs Iconfidant SSL Server before 1.3.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a client master key packet in which the sum of unspecified length fields is greater than a certain value...

CVE-2011-0651

Buffer overflow in the key exchange functionality in Icon Labs Iconfidant SSL Server before 1.3.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a client master key packet in which the sum of unspecified length fields is greater than a certain value...

Intel Finds BluRay HDCP Crack

Intel has confirmed Blu-ray HDCP encryption is cracked after admitting a leaked master key is the real deal. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection HDCP copy protection technology is designed to protect high-definition video content as it travels across digital interfaces. Read the full...

CVE-2009-0923

Unspecified vulnerability in Kerberos Incremental Propagation in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv01 through snv110 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service loss of incremental propagation requests to slave KDC servers via unknown vectors related to the master Key Distribution Center KDC...

CVE-2008-3274

The default configuration of Red Hat Enterprise IPA 1.0.0 and FreeIPA before 1.1.1 places ldap:///anyone on the read ACL for the krbMKey attribute, which allows remote attackers to obtain the Kerberos master key via an anonymous LDAP query...