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Casting Firefox to your TV, Roku or Game Console? Watch out for this major DANGEROUS bug!

Casting Firefox to your TV, Roku or Game Console? Watch out for this major DANGEROUS bug!

FromThe Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser


Casting Firefox to your TV, Roku or Game Console? Watch out for this major DANGEROUS bug!

FromThe Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What scared me about this bug is how EASY it is to execute, no MITM, no special software.. its all exploiting of existing software.. Let us discuss   The SSDP engine in Firefox for Android (68.11.0 and below) can be tricked into triggering Android intent URIs with zero user interaction.  This attack can be leveraged by attackers on the same WiFi network and manifests as applications on the target device suddenly launching, without the users' permission, and conducting activities allowed by the intent.   Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-security/security-operations/gl-redteam/red-team-tech-notes/-/tree/master/firefox-android-2020 https://twitter.com/init_string  https://twitter.com/LukasStefanko/status/1307013106615418883
Released:
Sep 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr ?‍? Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses