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A vulnerability codenamed Devil's Ivy is putting thousands of Internet-connected devices at risk of hacking.
Discovered by security researchers from Senrio, the flaw affects gSOAP, a C/C++ library widely used in the development of firmware for embedded devices.
gSOAP is a dual licensed (free and commercial) product developed by Genivia, who on its website says the library will help companies in the "development of [...] products [that] meet the latest industry standards for XML, XML Web services, WSDL and SOAP, REST, JSON, WS-Security, WS-Trust with SAML, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Discovery, TR-069, ONVIF, AWS, WCF, and more."
Senrio researchers initially discovered the vulnerability while analyzing the firmware of the Axis M3004 security camera.
After contacting the camera vendor with their findings, Axis told Senrio that the Devil's Ivy vulnerability affects 249 of 252 security camera models the company makes, which use firmware that includes the gSOAP toolkit.
The vulnerability is a simple buffer overflow, but Senrio researchers have managed to use it to execute code on the Axis security camera
[...] The problem is that gSOAP is very popular among many IoT and networking equipment vendors. On their website, Genivia claims the library was downloaded over one million times.
[...] A technical report detailing the vulnerability is available here. Devil's Ivy is tracked as CVE-2017-9765.
Source: BleepingComputer
Additional Coverage at:
Advisory from Genevia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @12:10AM (6 children)
This is what you get when you try to build real products with children's toys. Fuck IoT.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Arik on Wednesday July 19 2017, @03:19AM (4 children)
and the list goes on.
This is Crapware. Free Crapware is still Crapware. No matter how many times it's recycled, it won't cease to be Crapware.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @05:57AM (2 children)
gSOAP is one of the most respected web services libraries and it's used by thousands of companies and almost all of the top 500. It generates web service glue code so you don't have to write that crap by hand. It isn't some random, new library.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @02:15PM (1 child)
Spotted the web monkey.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @03:55PM
wrong story [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:29AM
Might as well say http is free crapware then. Those are just data exchange formats. JSON RFC, for example: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159 [ietf.org]
I know you hate javascript but json isn't executing anything in your browser : )
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:29AM
C and C++ are children's toys now?
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