900 million Android devices host vulnerable Qualcomm drivers
It's August, and we're at the height of the summer season. That means beaches, hot weather, cold beer, and large-impact Android device vulnerabilities. The folks at Check Point are at DEF CON 24, where they made a presentation on QuadRooter, a tetra-whammy of security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm device drivers. According to Check Point, Qualcomm's chipsets are used in an estimated 65% of Android devices, which works out to a count of roughy 900 million units. Furthermore, since the vulnerabilities exist at the driver level, the security experts warn that any malicious application can exploit them to gain complete access to all of the device's software and data.
Check Point has made a report available with technical details about each of the vulnerabilites. The list of affected phones includes the majority of the latest-model headsets from all the high-end manufacturers. That means ...