Serious SCADA Security Flaw Affects Critical Infrastructure Firms

The U.S.’s Computer Emergency Response Team CERT issued a warning to critical infrastructure firms on Wednesday about a serious security hole in products from Massachusetts firm Iconics that could leave critical systems vulnerable to remote attacks. U.S. companies in the electricity, oil and gas,...

China CERT: We Missed Report On SCADA Hole

China’s Computer Emergency Response Team CERT admitted that it missed a September e-mail message from a researcher at NSS Labs that pointed out a critical vulnerability in a commonly used SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition software package. The lapse resulted in a gap of almost four...

WellinTech KingView 6.53 remote heap overflow vulnerability

Overview WellinTech KingView 6.53 contains a remote heap overflow vulnerability in the HistorySrv process which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description According to WellinTech's website: "King V iew software is a high-pormance production which can be us...

Researcher: Holes Abound in Chinese SCADA

The researcher who discovered a hole in a prominent SCADA software package used in China claims that holes in the country’s SCADA systems aren’t uncommon, and blames a lack of transparency for the vulnerabilities. A security researcher at NSS Labs who disclosed a critical vulnerability in a popul...

Heap overflow

Heap-based buffer overflow in HistorySvr.exe in WellinTech KingView 6.53 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 777...

CVE-2011-0406

CVE-2011-0406 concerns a remote heap overflow in WellinTech KingView 6.53’s HistorySvr.exe. A specially crafted request to port 777 can cause heap corruption, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or crash the service. Public references note exploitation code exists and a patch was...

China Sleeps On A Stuxnet-Like SCADA Bug

One of the most widely used SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition applications in China may be harboring a critical security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to exploit the bug and execute arbitrary code. The hole was discovered in an application produced by Wellintech, a Beiji...