SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
SBA Research congratulates Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzinger on his inaugural lecture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Andreas Holzinger is a founding member of CD-MAKE (Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction), co-organized yearly with ARES,… 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. ∞