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Title: Android user? Check if your phone is being exploited
Post by: ZionRTZ on October 04, 2019, 05:35:08 PM

This is from the article "New 0-Day Flaw Affecting Most Android Phones Being Exploited in the Wild (https://amp.thehackernews.com/thn/2019/10/android-kernel-vulnerability.html)"

Apparently, many android phones are affected by what they call as 'zero-day vulnerability" and it's been exploited by some surveillance group.

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The zero-day is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Android kernel's binder driver that can allow a local privileged attacker or an app to escalate their privileges to gain root access to a vulnerable device and potentially silently take full remote control of the device.

Which phones are vulnerable?

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most Android devices manufactured and sold by a majority of vendors with the unpatched kernel are still vulnerable to this vulnerability even after having the latest Android updates, including below-listed popular smartphone models :

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Pixel 1
Pixel 1 XL
Pixel 2
Pixel 2 XL
Huawei P20
Xiaomi Redmi 5A
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5
Xiaomi A1
Oppo A3
Moto Z3
Oreo LG phones
Samsung S7
Samsung S8
Samsung S9
It helps to pay attention to these kind of news especially if you have a lot of personal information in your phone. Never trust your phone too much.