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Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
The vulnerabilities, which have been patched, may have novel appeal to attackers as an avenue to compromising phones.
And while most of the most visible shortages (and soaring stock prices) relate to top-tier PC and server chips, mobile graphics processors are the version that everyone with a smartphone is using everyday. That's exactly why Google's Android vulnerability hunting red team set its sights on open-source software from the chip giant Qualcomm that's widely used to implement mobile GPUs. At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas on Friday, three Google researchers presented more than nine vulnerabilities—now patched—that they discovered in Qualcomm's Adreno GPU, a suite of software used to coordinate between GPUs and an operating system like Android on Qualcomm-powered phones.
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