Vulnerability in Snapdragon 855 SoCs could pwn Android modems, allow baddies to snoop on conversations

A heap overflow vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 modem system-on-chips used in Android devices could let malicious people run arbitrary code on unsuspecting users’ devices, according to Check Point. The vuln, tracked as CVE-2020-11292, can be abused to trigger a heap overflow in devices that use a Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chip, thanks to some in-depth jiggery-pokery in the Qualcomm MSM Interface (QMI) voice service API.

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