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Using an Android Device?
- By Elite CIO
Feb 27, 2019
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Stay Alert, while opening an image on your Android Smartphone received through email or messaging app.
Yes, opening an image could hack your Android smartphone.
3 newly discovered critical vulnerabilities that affect millions of devices running recent versions of Google's mobile OS,ranging from Android 7.0 Nougat to its current Android 9.0 Pie.
The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2019-1986,CVE-2019-1987, and CVE-2019-1988, have been patched in Android Open Source Project (AOSP) by Google as part of its Feb. Android Security Updates.
As Google says, "the most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in Framework that could allow a remote attacker using a specially crafted PNG file to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process."
A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability just by tricking users into opening a maliciously crafted PNG image file (which is impossible to spot with the naked eye) on their Android devices sent through a mobile message service or an email app.
Google said it has notified its Android partners of all vulnerabilities a month before publication, adding that "source code patches for these issues will be released to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository in the next 48 hours."
Author - Atul Bansal, Gateway Rail