This enables security company Palo Alto Networks Tuesday. Also, some phones running Android 4.3 are vulnerable. The latest statistics Google is running for about half of all Android devices on the affected versions.
The vulnerability is only dangerous when installing apps that are not from Google Play. By default, the installation of such apk files not available on Android. For this, the user must first adapt itself once a security setting.
By the leak installing apps can be hijacked and can attackers gain access to more parts of the device will be mentioned during installation. When installing apps, users must normally give permission to access eg GPS information or the gallery, but the leak may also apps without these permissions still see data.
Palo Alto Networks said the leak January 2014 to have been discovered. Since then it has collaborated with include Google and Samsung to release patches for Android and for versions of the system provided by phone manufacturers.
Google has the leak then fixed in newer versions of Android, but many older devices get those updates no longer supplied. Palo Alto Tuesday brings a app out that Android users can check if their device is affected by the leak.
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