Google is going to do everything to avoid Stage Fright-like vulnerabilities in Android N. New and stricter security measures the upcoming Android version should make a lot safer.
Android N Stage Fright measures
Stage Fright ensured that infected Android devices could be remotely controlled last year, so that specific actions were performed. Attackers could gain access to the system using a vulnerability in the video framework of Android, which is used by various applications and services. Monthly updates for the security of Android were to avoid such situations, but Android N will play an even more active role
The Android security team N has devised a clever way to do this. By placing media servers and privileges in different sandboxes and components, it has a lesser impact as one of the media servers might be infected. A sandbox is an enclosed area where an app can not get out, and where all the necessities for that specific app worry. Should there arise a vulnerability or issue, it remains limited to one sandbox, and can not (or more difficult) spread over the rest of your device.
Android N components better separated
for example, the camera server access only to the camera, while the audio server alone may make claim to bluetooth. In practice, this ensures that hackers who want to go there with your data off, much fewer opportunities to do so because individual components are better separated.
In addition to this new technique would Google Android N other precautions to prevent Stage Fright-like situations. This is necessary, because in the past showed that even patches from Google are sometimes not enough to stop Stage Fright. Android N is officially released later this year and probably we hear more about the software about two weeks. Then in fact takes place Google I / O 2016. Android N will include a split-screen mode, revamped notifications and a picture-in-picture mode for videos.
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