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Home   »   Android vulnerability

Revisiting CVE-2015-3823: Mediaserver Bug Leads To Heap Overflow, Too

  • Posted on:August 26, 2015 at 8:34 am
  • Posted in:Mobile, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Wish Wu (Mobile Threat Response Engineer)
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Issues surrounding the Android mediaserver component continue. It has been brought to our attention that a vulnerability (CVE-2015-3823) could (theoretically) be used for arbitrary code execution as well. On August 23, Google raised the severity of this vulnerability to “critical”, indicating that code execution was possible. We have previously discussed how this bug in the mediaserver component of…

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Tags: androidAndroid mediaserverAndroid vulnerabilityCVE-2015-3823mediaserver componentMobile

Android Installer Hijacking Bug Used as Lure for Malware

  • Posted on:April 6, 2015 at 9:24 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Mobile
  • Author:
    Gideon Hernandez (Fraud Analyst)
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Mobile users became alarmed after the discovery of an Android bug that was dubbed as the “Android Installer Hijacking vulnerability.” This flaw can allow cybercriminals to replace or modify legitimate apps with malicious versions that can steal information. Given the high profile nature of this discovery, we decided to search for threats that might exploit this vulnerability….

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Tags: androidAndroid Installer HijackingAndroid vulnerabilityappMalwarescannervulnerability

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