Two critical bugs and more malicious apps make for a bad week for Android

Posted by BernardSwiss on Sep 13, 2016 3:08 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Dan Goodin
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The vulnerabilities, which are similar in severity to the Stagefright family of bugs disclosed last year, have been fixed in updates Google began distributing Tuesday. A large percentage of Android phones, however, aren't eligible to receive the fixes. Even those that do qualify don't receive them immediately (the September updates are currently not available as over-the-air downloads for either of the Nexus 5X devices in my household). That gives attackers crude blueprints for exploiting vulnerabilities that remain unpatched on millions of devices.

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