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title: ""Four newly-discovered vulnerabilities found in Android phones and…"
date: 2016-12-09
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# "Four newly-discovered vulnerabilities found in Android phones and…

*December 9, 2016 · Facebook*

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\"Four newly-discovered vulnerabilities found in Android phones and tablets that ship with a Qualcomm chip could allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected device.\
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The set of vulnerabilities, dubbed \"Quadrooter,\" affects over 900 million phone and tablets, according to Check Point researchers who discovered the flaws.\
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An attacker would have to trick a user into installing a malicious app, which wouldn\'t require any special permissions.\
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If successfully exploited, an attacker can gain root access, which gives the attacker full access to an affected Android device, its data, and its hardware \-- including its camera and microphone.\
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Google\'s own branded Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, and Nexus 6P devices are affected, as are Samsung\'s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, to name just a few of the models in question. The recently-announced BlackBerry DTEK50, which the company touts as the \"most secure Android smartphone,\" is also vulnerable to one of the flaws.\
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A patch that will fix one of the flaws will not be widely released until September, a Google spokesperson confirmed.\"
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