SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Edgar Weippl is one of the four organizers of the Dagstuhl seminar 21451: “Managing Industrial Control Systems Security Risks for Cyber Insurance“ that will be held next week, November 7-12, 2021. The aim of this seminar is to develop the basis of a cyber cat… Read More
Edgar Weippl (SBA Research) co-organizes the Dagstuhl seminar SiPS – Managing Industrial Control Systems Security Risks for Cyber Insurance at the distinguished Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. This Dagstuhl seminar aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to analyze and discuss open questions and… Read More
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. ∞
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. ∞