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Arm Issues Patch for Mali GPU Kernel Driver Vulnerability Amidst Ongoing Exploitation
2023-10-03 04:58

Arm has released security patches to contain a security flaw in the Mali GPU Kernel Driver that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-4211, the shortcoming impacts...

Arm warns of Mali GPU flaws likely exploited in targeted attacks
2023-10-02 16:37

Arm in a security advisory today is warning of an actively exploited vulnerability affecting the widely-used Mali GPU drivers. The flaw is currently tracked as CVE-2023-4211 and was discovered and reported to Arm by researchers of Google's Threat Analysis Group and Project Zero.

Modern GPUs vulnerable to new GPU.zip side-channel attack
2023-09-27 14:06

Researchers from four American universities have developed a new GPU side-channel attack that leverages data compression to leak sensitive visual data from modern graphics cards when visiting web pages. The GPU.zip researchers explain that all modern graphic processor units, especially integrated Intel and AMD chips, perform software-visible data compression even when not explicitly asked.

Researchers Uncover New GPU Side-Channel Vulnerability Leaking Sensitive Data
2023-09-27 12:55

A novel side-channel attack called GPU.zip renders virtually all modern graphics processing units (GPU) vulnerable to information leakage. "This channel exploits an optimization that is data...

Windows cryptomining attacks target graphic designer's high-powered GPUs
2023-09-07 15:46

Cybercriminals are leveraging a legitimate Windows tool called 'Advanced Installer' to infect the computers of graphic designers with cryptocurrency miners. The attackers promote installers for popular 3D modeling and graphic design software such as Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk 3ds Max, and SketchUp Pro, likely through black hat search engine optimization techniques.

Android security update fixes Mali GPU bug exploited as zero-day
2023-06-06 13:19

Google has released the monthly security update for the Android platform, adding fixes for 56 vulnerabilities, five of them with a critical severity rating and one exploited since at least last December. The new security patch level 2023-06-05 integrates a patch for CVE-2022-22706, a high-severity flaw in the Mali GPU kernel driver from Arm that Google's Threat Analysis Group believes it may have been used in a spyware campaign targeting Samsung phones.

Android security update fixes Mali GPU flaw exploited by spyware
2023-06-06 13:19

Google has released the monthly security update for the Android platform, adding fixes for 56 vulnerabilities, five of them with a critical severity rating and one exploited since at least last December. The new security patch level 2023-06-05 integrates a patch for CVE-2022-22706, a high-severity flaw in the Mali GPU kernel driver from Arm that Google's Threat Analysis Group believes it may have been used in a spyware campaign targeting Samsung phones.

Nvidia patches 29 GPU driver bugs that could lead to code execution, device takeover
2022-12-01 23:30

Nvidia fixed more than two dozen security flaws in its GPU display driver, the most severe of which could allow an unprivileged user to modify files, and then escalate privileges, execute code, tamper with or steal data, or even take over your device. In total, the chipmaker patched 29 vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Linux products, including 10 high-severity bugs.

NVIDIA releases GPU driver update to fix 29 security flaws
2022-11-30 16:27

NVIDIA has released a security update for its GPU display driver for Windows, containing a fix for a high-severity flaw that threat actors can exploit to perform, among other things, code execution and privilege escalation. The latest security update addresses 25 vulnerabilities on the Windows and Linux GPU drivers, while seven flaws are categorized as high-severity.

Millions of Android Devices Still Don't Have Patches for Mali GPU Flaws
2022-11-24 11:17

A set of five medium-severity security flaws in Arm's Mali GPU driver has continued to remain unpatched on Android devices for months, despite fixes released by the chipmaker. "These fixes have not yet made it downstream to affected Android devices," Project Zero researcher Ian Beer said in a report.