Google Fixes Rooting Vulnerabilities In Android

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Google released over-the-air firmware updates (http://www.greenbot.com/article/3019013/android/google-pushes-out-january-security-updates-for-nexus-devices.html) 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 (http://www.csoonline.com/article/3019239/google-fixes-dangerous-rooting-vulnerabilities-in-android.html) that could allow hackers to take over devices remotely or through malicious applications. The new patches (https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html) 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.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/01/06/0326209/google-fixes-rooting-vulnerabilities-in-android