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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @02:02PM
If you don't root your phone, somebody else will.