Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Tegra X1 processor vulnerability discovered, affects Nvidia Shield, Pixel C, and Nintendo Switch

The Tegra X1 is one of Nvidia's latest mobile processors, powering devices like the Nintendo Switch, Google Pixel C, and Nvidia Shield. It's not uncommon that vulnerabilities are discovered in SoCs, and that has just happened for the Tegra X1. Katherine Temkin and the ReSwitched hacking team have just released details about a security flaw, nicknamed 'Fusée Gelée,' that allows unauthenticated arbitrary code execution on devices using the Tegra chip.

You can read all the details at the source link below, but to summarize, Fusée Gelée takes advantage of a flaw in the Tegra X1's USB recovery mode.

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