It's 2019 – and you can completely pwn a Qualcomm-powered Android over the air

It's 2019 – and you can completely pwn a Qualcomm-powered Android over the air

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/06/qualcomm_android_patches/

Black Hat It is possible to thoroughly hijack a nearby vulnerable Qualcomm-based Android phone, tablet, or similar gadget, via Wi-Fi, we learned on Monday. This likely affects millions of Android devices.

Specifically, the following two security holes, dubbed Qualpwn and found by Tencent's Blade Team, can be leveraged one after the other to potentially take over a handheld: