Security News > 2024 > October > Qualcomm Urges OEMs to Patch Critical DSP and WLAN Flaws Amid Active Exploits
2024-10-08 04:07
Qualcomm has rolled out security updates to address nearly two dozen flaws spanning proprietary and open-source components, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43047 (CVSS score: 7.8), has been described as a user-after-free bug in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Service that could lead to "memory corruption
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-07 | CVE-2024-43047 | Use After Free vulnerability in Qualcomm products Memory corruption while maintaining memory maps of HLOS memory. | 7.8 |