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Snapdragon chip flaws put >1 billion Android phones at risk of data theft:
Snapdragon is what’s known as a system on a chip that provides a host of components, such as a CPU and a graphics processor. One of the functions, known as digital signal processing, or DSP, tackles a variety of tasks, including charging abilities and video, audio, augmented reality, and other multimedia functions. Phone makers can also use DSPs to run dedicated apps that enable custom features.
“While DSP chips provide a relatively economical solution that allows mobile phones to provide end users with more functionality and enable innovative features—they do come with a cost,” researchers from security firm Check Point wrote in a brief report of the vulnerabilities they discovered.
[...] Qualcomm has released a fix for the flaws, but so far it hasn’t been incorporated into the Android OS or any Android device that uses Snapdragon, Check Point said. When I asked when Google might add the Qualcomm patches, a company spokesman said to check with Qualcomm. The chipmaker didn’t respond to an email asking.
Check Point is withholding technical details about the vulnerabilities and how they can be exploited until fixes make their way into end-user devices. Check Point has dubbed the vulnerabilities Achilles. The more than 400 distinct bugs are tracked as CVE-2020-11201, CVE-2020-11202, CVE-2020-11206, CVE-2020-11207, CVE-2020-11208 and CVE-2020-11209.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @07:17AM (2 children)
"Just buy a new phone" kind of flaws.
What is still unknown is what exactly the impact will be. It might be something that most people can live with, like the Intel bugs, or it might be something that really hurts. No way to know until they release details.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday August 10 2020, @05:38PM (1 child)
This seems to be a common theme in big tech: Corporations run by Jews but staffed by Indians, and now whoa there's a gazillion backdoors in their products!
And the genius aspect of that strategy is that you don't know whether or not the backdoors are malice on the part of the Jews or incompetence on the part of the Indians.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @06:41PM
Stupid words come from stupid people.