#TrevorForget, PGP, Oracle, and Linux Kernel – Paul’s Security Weekly #531

Don’t worry about PGP private key exposure, Signal taps up Intel’s SGX for increased security, a two-year-old Linux Kernel issue resurfaces, Bill Gates’s biggest mistake, Oracle patches away, and is society becoming desensitized to the loss of personal data? Paul’s Stories Worried by PGP private key exposure stories? You dont have to with contemporary Identity-Based […]

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Is Linux ​kernel ​ RCE ​vulnerability – ​CVE-2017-1000251 (BlueBorne vulnerability) practical?

In BlueBorne Technical White Paper, the authors mention

It ​should ​be ​mentioned that ​testing ​and ​triggering ​this
​vulnerability ​was ​not ​an ​easy ​task, ​and required ​direct use
​of ​the ​ACL layer to ​send ​malformed ​L2CAP packets. ​Since ​no
​Bluetooth stack provides this ​to ​the ​user …

As an end user, such a vulnerability appears to be more of a theoretical concern. Is my understanding correct?
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Bluetooth Vulnerability Affects All Major OS

Security researchers from Armis Labs recently published a whitepaper unveiling eight critical 0-day Bluetooth-related vulnerabilities, affecting Linux, Windows, Android and iOS operating systems. These vulnerabilities alone or combined can lead to privileged code execution on a target device. The only requirement is: Bluetooth turned on. No user interaction is necessary to successfully exploit the flaws, the attacker does not need to pair with a target device nor the target device must be paired with some other device.

The research paper, dubbed BlueBorne (what’s a vulnerability, or a bunch, without a cool name nowadays?), details each vulnerability and how it was …read more

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Smashing Security podcast #042: Equifax, BlueBorne, and the iPhone X

Equifax’s shambolic response to its huge data breach, a scary-sounding Bluetooth exploit, and Apple’s iPhone X comes with Face ID.
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