Critical vulnerability MediaTek Devices

Eavesdropping Bugs in MediaTek Chips Affect 37% of All Smartphones and IoT Globally

Critical vulnerability MediaTek Devices

"A malformed inter-processor message could potentially be used by an attacker to execute and hide malicious code inside the DSP firmware," Check Point security researcher Slava Makkaveev said in a report. "Since the DSP firmware has access to the audio data flow, an attack on the DSP could potentially be used to eavesdrop on the user."

MediaTek has support for Android devices such as SAMSUNG, Nokia, Xiaomi and so on. Eavesdropping Bugs in MediaTek Chips Affect 37% of All Smartphones and IoT Globally