Billions of Android Devices Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation Except Android 5.0 Lollipop A security weakness in Android mobile operating system versions below 5.0 that puts potentially every Android device at risk for privilege escalation attacks, has been patched in Android 5.0 Lollipop – the latest version of the mobile operating system. The security vulnerability (CVE-2014-7911). A security weakness in Android mobile operating system versions below 5.0 that puts potentially every Android device at risk for privilege escalation attacks, has been patched in Android 5.0 Lollipop – the latest version of the mobile operating system. The security vulnerability (CVE-2014-7911), discovered by a security researcher named Jann Horn, could allow any potential attacker to bypass the Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) defense and execute arbitrary code of their choice on a target device under certain circumstances. ASLR is a technique involved in protection from buffer overflow attacks. Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Wang Wei thehackernews/…/billions-of-android-devices-vuln…
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:15:13 +0000
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