A famous security company Trend Micro has found another vulnerability in Android which can send your device into totally non-functioning state. This is inconvenient, and can also be proven deadly.
Trend Micro says
Even worst is that Trend Micro reported this to Google in May and the company merely categorized it as a "low priority".
Does this vulnerability make you worry about your Android phone or tablet?
Trend Micro says
"We have discovered a vulnerability in Android that can render a phone apparently dead -- silent, unable to make calls, with a lifeless screen. This vulnerability is present from Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) up to the current version, Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop). Combined, these versions account for more than half of Android devices in use today. No patch has been issued in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code by the Android Engineering Team to fix this vulnerability since we reported it in late May"The company further explains,
"the vulnerability lies in the mediaserver service, which is used by Android to index media files that are located on the Android device. This service cannot correctly process a malformed video file using the Matroska container (usually with the .mkv extension). When the process opens a malformed MKV file, the service may crash (and with it, the rest of the operating system). The vulnerability is caused by an integer overflow when the mediaserver service parses an MKV file. It reads memory out of buffer or writes data to NULL address when parsing audio data"The worst part is that this is affecting many versions of the operating system-- Jellybean 4.3, to Lollipop 5.1.1.
Even worst is that Trend Micro reported this to Google in May and the company merely categorized it as a "low priority".
Does this vulnerability make you worry about your Android phone or tablet?
Tell me in the comments.
Source: Betanews
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