It’s A Day Ending In Y, So Of Course There’s Yet Another Cyberattack Or Three

So many to choose from today, just like yesterday and same again tomorrow.  Let’s start your waking nightmares with a zero day that at least has a patch.  The Digital Signal Processor on many Qualcomm chipsets suffers from a flaw which thankfully has been spotted and patched; or can be patched if the manufacturer of your particular product makes one available.  In this case you are looking at DMA handle file descriptors being leveraged to trigger a use after free vulnerability, an attacker just has to feed a PD that matches one already in use.  This particular attack seems to be targeted at specific targets, but that’s no excuse not to try to hunt down a patch.

To make your day better, Qualcomm has also patched a year old WLAN Resource Manager bug that causes memory corruption similar to the attack above.  If that’s not enough, take a look below the fold for even more reasons to spice up your morning coffee.