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Attackers exploit 0day vulnerability that gives full control of Android phones

Paulo Renato on October 04, 2019

In this article we can read about a zero day exploit with high severity impact, affecting at least 18 different Android phones, including Pixel and...
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There are a lot of requirements to be met for this exploit to be in action so I don't think it's a threat, but actually a fix would be nice.

Plus it's a kernel issue, not Android issue.

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Paulo Renato • Edited

There are a lot of requirements to be met for this exploit to be in action so I don't think it's a threat,

Well it's a threat, but one that's is not easy to achieve, just like the article says and I quote under the section Don't panic.

but actually a fix would be nice.

I am on Samsung, thus I need to wait some time for the security update to fix it. This is not the first time I regret to have choose Samsung over Google phone. Security updates arrive to Google phone first ;)

Plus it's a kernel issue, not Android issue.

Once his only happening in Android phones, its an issue for all Android users, thus an Android issue.