{"id":116558,"date":"2020-12-16T06:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T06:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=116558"},"modified":"2020-12-16T06:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T06:20:03","slug":"google-has-discovered-a-vulnerability-in-the-qualcomm-gpu-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/google-has-discovered-a-vulnerability-in-the-qualcomm-gpu-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has discovered a vulnerability in the Qualcomm GPU driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-item__content\" data-v-304f9374=\"\">\n<p>Google\u00a0has published information about a serious vulnerability that could affect mobile devices with chipset\u00a0Qualcomm&#8217;s\u00a0, running the operating system\u00a0All Android\u00a0.\u00a0The vulnerability was found in the\u00a0Adreno GPU\u00a0driver\u00a0.\u00a0The problem was discovered by\u00a0Google Project Zero\u00a0employees\u00a0who specialize in information security issues.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Google\u00a0assigned the problem of a high threat rating, as the chipset\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0millions of mobile gadgets work worldwide.\u00a0The vulnerability relates to the way the\u00a0Adreno GPU\u00a0driver\u00a0maps a user&#8217;s device structure to kernel graphics support level (\u00a0KGSL\u00a0)\u00a0file descriptors\u00a0.\u00a0The researchers note that although they managed to attack the device using this vulnerability, the implementation of such an attack in practice is very difficult.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-item__content\" data-v-304f9374=\"\">\n<div data-v-304f9374=\"\">\n<p>Google Project Zero\u00a0employees\u00a0informed\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0about the discovered vulnerability back\u00a0on September 15th\u00a0.\u00a0According to available information,\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0created the necessary update and handed it over to OEMs without advertising this action, assuring that it will officially submit the patch\u00a0in January 2021\u00a0.\u00a0However,\u00a0Project Zero\u00a0experts believe that this update does not fully solve the problem, and recommend\u00a0Qualcomm to\u00a0finalize the patch before its large-scale distribution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u00a0has published information about a serious vulnerability that could affect mobile devices with chipset\u00a0Qualcomm&#8217;s\u00a0, running the operating system\u00a0All Android\u00a0.\u00a0The vulnerability was found in the\u00a0Adreno GPU\u00a0driver\u00a0.\u00a0The problem was discovered by\u00a0Google Project Zero\u00a0employees\u00a0who specialize in information security issues. In\u00a0Google\u00a0assigned the problem of a high threat rating, as the chipset\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0millions of mobile gadgets work worldwide.\u00a0The vulnerability relates to [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/google-has-discovered-a-vulnerability-in-the-qualcomm-gpu-driver\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":116559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-116558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}