SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Yesterday, a dedicated group of 23 colleagues, collectively known as “SBAgliato,” participated in the Vienna Night Run 2023 event, alongside an impressive total of 16,000 participants. Every member of our team successfully crossed the finish line and secured an impressive 46th place out of a competition… Read More
The “SBArathon” team, consisting of Martin Grottenthaler, Barbara Limbeck-Lilienau, Sebastian Schrittwieser and Fabian Funder took part in the relay race of the 40th Vienna City Marathon on 23 April. They… Read More
We at SBA love joint activities. Be it BBQs, hiking tours or parties, we have great times together. 🙂 Last Friday, November 18th, we tried something new: with two trainers we gained insight in the trend sport Padel. At the C&C Wienerberg we first had some training hours and afterwards… 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. ∞