Congratulations! Markus Huber successfully defended his PhD thesis
The external professors were Stefan Katzenbeisser (TU Darmstadt) and Engin Kirda (Northeastern Univ., Boston). Advisors were Edgar Weippl and A Min Tjoa.
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The Cyber Resilience Act in its trinity
22.07.2025
ARES 2025
11.08.2025 - 14.08.2025
SBA Research at a glance
Young Researchers´ Day @ ICT Security Conference 2025 – Recap
A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 21st ICT Security Conference on… ∞
Detection of Null Pointer Dereference in MediaTek VoLTE Stack Firmware with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund
Together with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Michael Pucher, researcher at SBA research, discovered and investigated a vulnerability in the Voice of LTE (VoLTE) stack that is broadly used within MediaTek-based smartphones. ∞
SBA Security Advisory – Null pointer dereference in MediaTek Modem (CVE-2025-20647)
In the Mediatek modem, there is a possible system crash due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote denial of service, if a UE has connected to a rogue base station controlled by the attacker, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. ∞