Google Fixes Rooting Vulnerabilities In Android (csoonline.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 6, 2016 @02:02AM from the manufacturers-pledge-to-implement-by-2019 dept.

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.

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Re:Android security? lol! by minus9 · 2016-01-06 03:04 · Score: 3, Funny

"No one will get these fixes."

Not even the people who are mentioned in the article you're replying to? The ones with Nexus devices that the fixes were pushed out to on Monday?