Qualcomm Snapdragon chips have potentially serious UEFI firmware vulnerabilities that affect a large number of devices made by Microsoft, Lenovo, Samsung, and probably other manufacturers as well.
Firmware security company Binarly researchers found five connectivity and boot-related issues, and Qualcomm announced the availability of patches for those issues. Binarly’s founder and CEO, Alex Matrosov, revealed to SecurityWeek that the company examined the firmware for Lenovo Thinkpad X13s laptops using the Qualcomm Snapdragon system-on-a-chip and found a total of nine vulnerabilities (SoC).
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The Arm architecture is used by the Snapdragon CPU, and according to Matrosov, this is the first time that UEFI firmware vulnerabilities relating to the Arm device ecosystem have been publicly disclosed.
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