Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Google to close serious vulnerabilities in Android Security.nl

Google has the monthly updates for Android released in a total of 83 vulnerabilities jams, including the Dirty COW-leak and the Pusher-geheugenaanval that researchers of the Free University in Amsterdam, recently demonstrated.

23 of the 83 vulnerabilities this month have been fixed if seriously considered. Via serious security flaws, an attacker can in the worst case, the device remotely to take over. This would, in various ways, including opening an email, visiting websites, or the processing of media files through mms to be sent. The serious vulnerabilities found in various components, including media server, libzipfile and different kerneldrivers and drivers from chip manufacturers Nvdia and Qualcomm.

Google has the security updates this month, divided into three stages, namely 2016-11-01, 2016-11-05 and 2016-11-06. The first two patch levels has Google under the Nexus and Pixel devices will be rolled out. The third patch level, 2016-11-06, Google has not yet for the own devices are available. This patch resolves the Dirty COW-vulnerability that Androidtoestellen to rooten. BlackBerry has this vulnerability in the own on Android-based smartphones fixed.

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