Remotely Exploitable Flaw Puts Millions of Internet-Connected Devices at Risk
Security researchers have discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in an open-source software development library used by major manufacturers of the Internet-of-Thing devices that eventually left millions of devices vulnerable to hacking.
The vulnerability (CVE-2017-9765), [discovered](http://blog.senr.io/blog/devils-ivy-flaw-in-widely-used-third-party-code-impacts-millions) by researchers at the IoT-focused security firm Senrio, resides in the software development library called [B]gSOAP toolkit[/B] (Simple Object Access Protocol) — an advanced C/C++ auto-coding tool for developing XML Web services and XML application.
Dubbed “Devil’s Ivy,” the stack buffer overflow vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crash the SOAP WebServices daemon and could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable devices.
More: http://thehackernews.com/2017/07/gsoap-iot-device-hacking.html