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/
(Score: 1) by claywar on Tuesday August 09 2016, @12:37AM
The software is being updated, however the real issue is that vendors don't feel the need to push those updates. I agree that at certain breakpoints, old hardware should not receive functional upgrades, however security is a completely different matter.