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Baseband Zero Day Exposes Millions of Mobile Phones to Attack

  • 7 April 2017
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By Tom Spring April 7, 2017 , 4:10 pm                                               

 MIAMI—A previously undisclosed baseband vulnerability impacting Huawei smartphones, laptop WWAN modules and IoT components was revealed Thursday at the Infiltrate Conference by researcher Ralf-Phillip Weinmann, managing director at security firm Comsecuris. In one attack scenario, the vulnerability could be used by attackers to execute a memory-corruption attack against vulnerable devices over the air.
 
Successful exploits, however, have a number of difficult requirements that reduce the overall risk to users.
 
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