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New Vulnerabilities Affect Over 900 Million Android Devices, Enable Complete Control of Devices

posted by janrinok on Monday August 08 2016, @06:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the oops dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

QuadRooter Android vulnerabilities affect devices that are built on the Qualcomm chipset, a supplier of 80% of the chipsets in the Android ecosystem. If any one of the four vulnerabilities is exploited, an attacker can trigger privilege escalations and gain root access to a device, enabling them to change or remove system-level files, delete or add apps, and access the device's screen, camera or microphone.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/08/08/quadrooter-android-vulnerabilities/

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @10:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @10:11PM (#385501)

    I will never understand why when a iOS jailbreak in userland comes along people go "yay" when the right response should be "oh shit"

    Because the reality is that for the people in question the chances of a hacker pwning their phone isn't actually that high while Apple/Google has already pwned their phone. Stuff like jailbreak lets those people pwn their own phone.

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