The ad caused a stir yesterday in Las Vegas at the DefCon conference. Israeli vendor Check Point security solutions has indeed revealed the existence of a set of four vulnerabilities affecting baptized QuadRooter and all Android smartphones with Qualcomm chips. Is potentially 900 million devices. And it’s more serious: if an attacker successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities through a malicious application for example, it can make an Android rootage and obtain administrator rights. Which will allow it to take control of the machine.
Qualcomm must provide new patches builders
According to Check Point, three of the four flaws have already been corrected by Qualcomm. But users can not necessarily protect themselves. Because the problem is drivers provided with Qualcomm chips that are pre-installed on the devices. The day Google updates are only available to owners of the Nexus. The other are dependent on their manufacturer waiting itself corrections Qualcomm. And that’s what worries security experts: This latency makes them more vulnerable users
According to Check Point, many models are concerned.. Here’s the list: BlackBerry Priv, Blackphone 1 and Blackphone 2, Google Nexus 5X, Nexus 6 and Nexus 6P, HTC One, HTC M9 and HTC 10 LG G4 LG G5 and LG V10, the Motorola Moto X2ème generation, the OnePlus one, one Plus2 and OnePlus 3, Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge and finally the Sony Xperia Z Ultra.
check Point offers a free app QuadRooter to check if your device is in danger and recommends pending be especially attentive to the downloaded applications. Better to focus the official platform Google Play.
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