SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
From October 5-6, 2022, the 6th heise devSec 2022 took place in Karlsruhe, Germany. The conferences´ theme: Secure software starts before the first row of code. Michael Koppmann and Mathias Tausig… Read More
This year’s PriSec conference took place from October 05.-06. in Rust am Neusiedlersee. Gerald Sendera held a talk about interface documentation (“Schnittstellendokumentation? TLDR *lol*”) to 40 participants. PriSec combines the topics of information security and data protection in the company: In the future, this growing area of… Read More
Markus Klemen (founder and managing director of SBA Research) held an impulse talk on Digital Sovereignty at a virtual workshop organized by the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development. The Workshop focused on two aspects of the topic of… 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. ∞