The vulnerability of the streaming filter iconv (ext/iconv/iconv.c) in the PHP programming language interpreter allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the stream filter iconv ext/iconv/iconv.c in the PHP programming language is related to an infinite loop that can occur due to input errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to cause service failures remotely...

CVE-2019-12410

While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory...

October Release: Q&A with Ari Weil

Shortly after Akamai announced the October 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance and media product lines, Akamai's VP of Product Marketing, Ari Weil, took over Akamai's Twitter account for a live October Release Q&A. For those that missed the live event,...

LIVE555 Streaming Media Server Detection (HTTP)

This script performs a HTTP based detection of LIVE555 Streaming Media Server. Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published ...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libarchive security and bug fix update

An update for libarchive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18683

An issue was discovered in drivers/media/platform/vivid in the Linux kernel through 5.3.8. It is exploitable for privilege escalation on some Linux distributions where local users have /dev/video0 access, but only if the driver happens to be loaded. There are multiple race conditions during...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-18683

An issue was discovered in drivers/media/platform/vivid in the Linux kernel through 5.3.8. It is exploitable for privilege escalation on some Linux distributions where local users have /dev/video0 access, but only if the driver happens to be loaded. There are multiple race conditions during...

Race condition

An issue was discovered in drivers/media/platform/vivid in the Linux kernel through 5.3.8. It is exploitable for privilege escalation on some Linux distributions where local users have /dev/video0 access, but only if the driver happens to be loaded. There are multiple race conditions during...

CVE-2019-18230

Honeywell equIP and Performance series IP cameras, multiple versions, A vulnerability exists where the affected product allows unauthenticated access to audio streaming over HTTP...

CVE-2019-18230

Honeywell equIP and Performance series IP cameras, multiple versions, A vulnerability exists where the affected product allows unauthenticated access to audio streaming over HTTP...

Design/Logic Flaw

Honeywell equIP and Performance series IP cameras, multiple versions, A vulnerability exists where the affected product allows unauthenticated access to audio streaming over HTTP...

CVE-2019-18230

The CVE-2019-18230 entry affects Honeywell equIP and Performance series IP cameras. Root cause: Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306) leading to unauthenticated access to audio streams over HTTP. Affected products/versions are Honeywell equIP and Performance series cameras; CVSS ...

CVE-2019-18230

Honeywell equIP and Performance series IP cameras, multiple versions, A vulnerability exists where the affected product allows unauthenticated access to audio streaming over HTTP...

Bedside Hotel Robot Hacked to Stream In-Room Video

A Japanese hotel chain called “Henn na” that uses robots in lieu of human staff is wrestling with bedside bots that researchers hacked to view video footage from guest rooms. The chain’s parent, HIS Group, owns 10 locations throughout Japan that leverage robots with facial recognition capability...

Enhancing Video Streaming Quality for Exoplayer -- Part 2: Buffering Strategy to Lower Startup Time and Video On-Demand Rebuffering

The first part of this blog series discussed about the quality of user experience QoE metrics and two strategies that heavily influence the QoE: the bitrate selection...

Akamai Outlook: Optimizing Edge Delivery Performance and Monitoring

Written by: Ritesh Kalyanshetty and Sandeep Singh Pervasiveness of CDNs within the expanding Media and Entertainment Industry Media and entertainment companies, including content owners and over-the-top OTT service providers are living in an era symbolized by a dramatic increase in content...

A Peak at the Edge: Akamai Sets New Traffic Benchmark

Last week Akamai reached a significant milestone when traffic on our intelligent edge platform exceeded the threshold of 100 Tbps terabits per second for the first time in our history, peaking at 106 Tbps. To put that volume of traffic into context, delivering 106 terabits per second is roughly t...

WordPress s3bubble-amazon-s3-audio-streaming plugin path traversal vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Foundation using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers. s3bubble-amazon-s3-audio-streaming is an audio player plugin for streaming Amazon S3 used in it. A path traversal vulnerability exists...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: jackson-core-2.10.0-1.fc30

Core part of Jackson that defines Streaming API as well as basic shared abstractions...

Optimizing Video Streaming Performance with Origin-Assisted Prefetching

Online video streaming is everywhere today. It's available on the smallest hand-held devices to the largest of screens in our living rooms. Magically and for the most part, it works and provides a very captivating experience. However, if you step back to look at the overall architecture, media...