CVE-2016-10414

CVE-2016-10414 affects Android devices using Qualcomm Small Cell SoCs (and related Snapdragon/SD variants) where passing a hash with zero datalength causes the code to return an error, even though zero length is valid. Connected sources confirm the issue and map it to a broad set of Qualcomm/Andr...

CVE-2016-10438

CVE-2016-10438 is an information exposure issue in Android devices affected by Qualcomm Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Mobile and Wear FSM9055, IPQ4019/IPQ8064, and various SD/SoC families. The root cause is logging of debug statements using %p, which could expose kernel or driver pointers. The repor...

CVE-2016-10450

CVE-2016-10450 describes a potential stack-based buffer overflow in the Thermal service that could lead to root compromise on Android devices with Qualcomm Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Mobile, and Snapdragon Wear/SDx platforms (e.g., FSM9055, MDM9xx, MSM89xx, SD 210–835, etc.). The concrete affecte...

CVE-2016-10501

CVE-2016-10501 covers Android devices with Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear and related small cell SoCs (FSM9055, MDM9xxx, MSM8xxx, SD series up to SD 835). The issue is the improper input validation during image parsing , as described in the NVD/NVD-affiliated entry. Impact is high: p...

CVE-2016-10436

CVE-2016-10436 affects Android on Qualcomm/Qualcomm-based SoCs (e.g., Qualcomm Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Mobile and Wear FSM9055; IPQ4019/IPQ8064/MDM92xx/MSM89xx/SD family and related SDX20 devices). The issue is improper input validation on a read path that leads to memory corruption in the aff...

CVE-2016-10450

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Mobile, and Snapdragon Wear FSM9055, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD...

CVE-2016-10501

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear, and Small Cell SoC FSM9055, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD...

CVE-2015-9138

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear, and Small Cell SoC FSM9055, IPQ4019, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9625, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD...

AICPA Releases New SOC 2 Guide – What You Need to Know

In March 2018, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants AICPA released its highly anticipated new System and Organization Controls 2 SOC 2 guide, which includes information for the extant 2016 trust services principles and the new 2017 trust services criteria. The following is a...

What's New with Prolexic

There have been two constants in DDoS over the last 10+ years: an ever-changing threat landscape and continuous growth in attack sizes. Akamai's Prolexic platform has stood the test of time, but we are continuing to invest in ways to make our customers' experience more valuable and relevant. I'm...

Eliminating Dwell Time with Cb Response and Red Canary

How Can I Efficiently Organize and Lead the People on My Team? Organizing your team to protect your environment with agility is a difficult task with all the varied skills and challenges related to traditional security operations center SOC structures. We asked our partners at Red Canary, who eve...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31870: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on January 31, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 56629 First Published: 2018 January 31 17:23 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31870 may contain the following files: Name |...

CVE-2017-13218

Access to CNTVCTEL0 in Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear could be used for side channel attacks and this could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed in FSM9055, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M,...

Information disclosure

Access to CNTVCTEL0 in Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear could be used for side channel attacks and this could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed in FSM9055, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M,...

CVE-2017-13218

The CVE-2017-13218 entry documents a side-channel information-disclosure vulnerability caused by access to CNTVCT_EL0 in various ARM-based devices (e.g., Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon lines). Affected components include listed CPUs/SoCs (FSM9055, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9xxx, SD series, etc.) and relat...

Excerpts from Building a High Speed SOC: Achieving Speed (Part 2)

Carbon Black recently published an in-depth guide on what it takes to develop a "high speed" security operations center, or SOC; this is the last excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information on building high speed SOCs, including how to eliminate the "response gap," chec...

SOC Forum 2017: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Massive Malware Attacks

Today I spoke at SOC Forum 2017 in Moscow. It was a great large-scale event about Security Operation Centers. 2,700 people registered. Lots of people in suits . And lots of my good fellows. The event was held in Radisson Royal Congress Park. There were three large halls for presentations and a hu...

CVE-2017-0865

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek soc driver. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-65025090. References: M-ALPS02973195...

CVE-2017-0865

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek soc driver. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-65025090. References: M-ALPS02973195...

Excerpts from Building a High Speed SOC: Introduction

Carbon Black recently published an in-depth guide on what it takes to develop a "high speed" security operations center, or SOC; this is an excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information on building high speed SOCs, including how to eliminate the "response gap," check out...