Security researchers have discovered a flaw that would allow Android phones in a permanent bring vegetative state
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The vulnerability occurs in the Android versions 4.3 to the current 5.1.1. Taken together probably account for more than half of all phones running under Android. Who are receptive to a trick that makes virtually all functions of the system unusable. Even with a hit phone call would not be possible. A restart helps in principle. But using an additional piece of malware is to undermine the researchers also possible the last escape route.
Matroska
The error is in the media server service that Android needed for indexing of media files. This feature would be sufficiently protected against a known integer overflow of the index variable. Such overflow is to cause, according to the researchers of Trend Micro-by offering a wrong structured video file by using the ‘Matroska-container (usually characterized by a .MKV extension). Such a corrupt file can be easily unnoticed offered by the user to lure a booby-ge kicked site.
The disclosure of the vulnerability follows few days the announcement of an even worse mistake, causing some 950 million Android phones are open to a digital hijacking based on no more than a vitriolic text message.
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