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January 6, 2016 04:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/L_z26YtuZIs/google-fixes-rooting-vulnerabilities-in-android
Google Fixes Rooting Vulnerabilities In Android
itwbennett writes: Google released over-the-air firmware updates for its Nexus devices Monday and will publish the patches to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository by Wednesday, fixing a new batch of vulnerabilities in Android that could allow hackers to take over devices remotely or through malicious applications. The new patches address six critical, two high and five moderate vulnerabilities. The most serious flaw is located in the mediaserver Android component, a core part of the operating system that handles media playback and corresponding file metadata parsing.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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