An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from CNET: Four newly-discovered vulnerabilities found in Android phones and tablets that ship with a Qualcomm chip could allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected device. The set of vulnerabilities, dubbed “Quadrooter, ” affects over 900 million phone and tablets, according to Check Point researchers who discovered the flaws. An attacker would have to trick a user into installing a malicious app, which wouldn’t require any special permissions. If successfully exploited, an attacker can gain root access, which gives the attacker full access to an affected Android device, its data, and its hardware — including its camera and microphone. The flaw even affects several of Google’s own Nexus devices, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, according to the article, as well as the Blackberry DTEK50, which the company describes as the “most secure Android smartphone.” CNET adds that “A patch that will fix one of the flaws will not be widely released until September, a Google spokesperson confirmed.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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900M Android Devices Vulnerable To New ‘Quadrooter’ Security Flaw
