Along amongst the unsafe Quadrooter vulnerabilities that affected 900 Million devices as well as other previously disclosed issues, Google has patched a previously-unknown critical põrnikas that could allow attackers deliver their hack hidden within an innocent looking icon via social media or chat apps.
In fact, at that spot is no postulate for a victim to click on the malicious photograph because equally shortly equally the image’s information was parsed past times the phone, it would quietly allow a remote assaulter to receive got command over the device or only crash it.
The vulnerability is like to concluding year's Stagefright bug (exploit code) that allowed hackers to hijack Android devices amongst exactly a elementary text message without the owners existence aware of it.
The Stagefright flaw affected to a greater extent than than 950 Million Android devices as well as resided inwards the nub Android component subdivision Stagefright — a multimedia playback library used past times Android to process, tape as well as play multimedia files.
However, the recent vulnerability (delivered a patch to cook the issue, but given the shaky history of handset manufacturers as well as carriers rolling out safety patches, it is non known how long the companies volition receive got to update vulnerable Android devices.
Google rewarded Strazzere amongst $4,000 equally operate of the company’s Android põrnikas bounty programme as well as exactly about other $4,000 as, Forbes reports; Strazzere had pledged to give all his vantage coin to Girls Garage, a programme as well as workspace for girls aged 9-13.
