Critical vulnerability in Nvidia’s Tegra X1 SoC can be used to hack Nintendo Switch

If you have devices like Nintendo Switch or Google Pixel C, you probably don’t want to miss this news: a critical vulnerability – dubbed Fusee Gelee – has been discovered in the SoC that powers your device.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute unauthenticated arbitrary code on your device. Here’s how the researchers explain the vulnerability:

As this vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution on the Boot and Power Management Processor (BPMP) before any lock-outs take effect, this vulnerability compromises the entire root-of-trust for each processor, and allows exfiltration…


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