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SBA Security Advisory – phpWhois – PHP Code Injection (CVE-2015-5243)

August 2, 2018

phpWhois and some of its forks in versions before 5.1.0 are prone to a code injection vulnerability due to insufficient sanitization of returned WHOIS data. This allows attackers controlling the WHOIS information of a requested domain to execute arbitrary PHP code in the context of the application. We recommend to update phpWhois to version jsmitty12: 5.1.0 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – RXTEC RXAdmin – SQL Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8298)

May 13, 2015

SQL injection vulnerability in the RXTEC RXAdmin Login Page allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via several HTTP parameter. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Polycom BToE Connector – Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8300)

May 13, 2015

Polycom BToE Connector up to version 2.3.0 allows unprivileged windows users to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. We recommend to update Polycom BToE Connector to version 3.0.0 or later. For further details, see the full security advisory. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – KNX management software ETS – remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2015-8299)

January 1, 2015

The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in a memcpy operation when parsing specailly crafted KNXnet/IP packets in the Group messages monitor (aka. Falcon). An according proof-of-concept exploit which was tested on an affected ETS version installed on a Windows XP SP3 can be found below. The proof-of-concept exploit generates the UDP packet which triggers the vulnerability and should at least crash the application (it requires python and scapy to run). Read More

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SBA Security Advisory – phpWhois – PHP Code Injection (CVE-2015-5243)

SBA Security Advisory – RXTEC RXAdmin – SQL Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8298)

SBA Security Advisory – Polycom BToE Connector – Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2015-8300)

SBA Security Advisory – KNX management software ETS – remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2015-8299)

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