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Title: Super-Scary Android Flaw Found
Post by: HCK on July 29, 2015, 03:00:23 am
Super-Scary Android Flaw Found

Zimperium on Monday revealed a stunning discovery by researcher Joshua Drake -- a flaw in Android's Stagefright media playback engine that could expose millions of mobile device users to attack without their having done anything. Stagefright, which processes several popular media formats, is implemented in native code -- C++ -- which is more prone to memory corruption than some other languages.

Source: Super-Scary Android Flaw Found (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82315.html?rss=1)