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

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: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday August 08 2016, @11:48PM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Monday August 08 2016, @11:48PM (#385545) Journal
    By leaving updates up to manufacturers whose best interest is in getting you to buy their next new and shiny, removing any incentive for them to update the devices you buy from them to fix vulnerabilities like this. Google could mandate that anyone who wants to use the Android trademark to describe their devices must provide updates for at least two years, and that might mitigate the issue, but I don't know that if they did this it would go over well. Google seems to be in matters like this at the mercy of the larger manufacturers like Samsung, who would, I think, just give Google the middle finger and stop describing their phones as Android phones if they tried to pull something like this, or migrate all their devices to Tizen out of spite.
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