Old Android Flaw Elevates Privileges, Steals SMS, Call Logs

A five-year-old Android vulnerability disclosed today affects hundreds of different device models going back to Jelly Bean 4.3. Older devices are at the greatest risk; newer devices running Android with SE Android, the OS’ implementation of Security Enhanced Linux, are at a lesser risk. The...

Exploiting CVE-2016-2060 on Qualcomm Devices

Mandiant’s Red Team recently discovered a widespread vulnerability affecting Android devices that permits local privilege escalation to the built-in user “radio”, making it so an attacker can potentially perform activities such as viewing the victim’s SMS database and phone history. The...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1203-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2013-7446: Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/afunix.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass intended AFUNIX socket permissions or cause a...

CVE-2016-3951

Double free vulnerability in drivers/net/usb/cdcncm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device with an invalid USB descriptor...

CVE-2016-2813

Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Android does not properly restrict JavaScript access to orientation and motion data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about a device's physical environment, and possibly discover PIN values, via a crafted web site, a similar issue to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2782

The treoattach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device that lacks a 1 bulk-in or 2...

Hardcoded credentials

The hubactivate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.5 does not properly maintain a hub-interface data structure, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service invalid memory access and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact ...

Laser Gun to Detect Bombs and Chemical Weapons from 100 Feet Away

In Brief US-based Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity IARPA agency is sponsoring a program to build portable laser sensors that could detect explosives, narcotics and other dangerous chemical weapons from 100 feet away. Dubbed SILMARILS Standoff Illuminator for Measuring Absorbance a...

CVE-2016-2421

Setup Wizard in Android 5.1.x before 5.1.1 and 6.x before 2016-04-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection mechanism and delete data via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 26154410...

CVE-2016-2423

server/telecom/CallsManager.java in Telephony in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly consider whether a device is provisioned, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the Factory Reset Protection protection...

PT-2016-5018 · Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Red Hat Satellite 5 affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. Specifically, the list...

CVE-2015-8551

The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allows local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash by leveraging a system with access to a...

Apple iOS 9.3 S/Plus – touch password bypass vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Description iOS is developed by Apple Phoneoperating system, published in 2 0 0 7 years use on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and has begun to extend to other Apple devices such as the iPad and Apple TV. With Microsoft's Windows Phone Windows CEand Google's Android systems, Apple does not authorize...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2947-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2016-1780

WebKit in Apple iOS before 9.3 does not prevent hidden web views from reading orientation and motion data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about a device's physical environment via a crafted web site...

CVE-2016-1779

WebKit in Apple iOS before 9.3 and Safari before 9.1 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain physical-location data via a crafted geolocation request...

Design/Logic Flaw

WebKit in Apple iOS before 9.3 and Safari before 9.1 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain physical-location data via a crafted geolocation request...

USN-2930-3: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2929-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2929-1 advisory. Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2931-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2931-1 advisory. Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling IPTSOSETREPLACE events. A local...