Analysis of Nexus 5 Monitor mode

Posted on Thu 25 December 2014 in Article • Tagged with arm, security, qualcomm, firmware, android, nexus, trustzone

This article will first describe how to locate the Monitor mode code in Nexus 5 firmware (hammerhead-ktu84p-factory-35ea0277, bootloader-hammerhead-hhz11k : c32f8bec310c659c1296739b00c6a8ac). Then, we will try to understand what it does (its functionalities). Finally, you will have to find bugs by yourself because I didn't find any...so far !

Note: Terms (Non-)Secure …


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[QPSIIR-80] Qualcomm TrustZone Integer Signedness bug

Posted on Thu 18 December 2014 in Advisory • Tagged with vulnerability, advisory, arm, security, qualcomm, android, trustzone

Summary

Qualcomm TrustZone is prone to an integer signedness bug that may allow to write NULL words to barely controllable locations in memory.

The vulnerability can be triggered from Non-Secure World through the TrustZone call "tzbsp_smmu_fault_regs_dump".

This issue has been discovered in Samsung Galaxy S5 firmware, but other devices can …

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