Thread: Serious security vulnerability found in Qualcomm closed GPU driver
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nieldk
2014-06-24 , 09:24
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
Since there is no mentioning which SoC's the vulnerability is present I assume it is present on all curret Snapdragon chipsets.
Hence, yes, Jolla is probably also affected.
Hmm, perhaps, it seems related heavily to the graphics driver on Android. But, given the nature, the driver in SailfishOS might just be vulnerable aswell.
Seems to be patches available already, so hopefully Jolla is watching this

EDIT: Yep!
Someone needs to patch this
https://github.com/KonstaT/sailfisho...msm/kgsl_mmu.c

with this patch
https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic...43b707a9678580


and, patch this
https://github.com/KonstaT/sailfisho...u/msm/adreno.c

with this patch
https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic...270d4cf26102bc
Last edited by nieldk; 2014-06-24 at 10:06.
 

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