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Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs

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Google 's Android vulnerability hunting red team set its sights on open source software from chip giant Qualcomm that's widely used to implement mobile GPUs.

Attackers could exploit the flaws the researchers found to take full control of a device.

Qualcomm released patches for the flaws to "original equipment manufacturers” (OEMs) that use Qualcomm chips and software in the Android phones they make.

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