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Two serious Android flaws found and patched | ITProPortal
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Two serious vulnerabilities were discovered recently on Android-powered smartphones, ones which are similar to the dreaded Stagefright in terms of severity. The media are reporting on two separate incidents, one discovered by a Google researcher, and another by security organisation Checkpoint. The first one, discovered by Mark Brand from Google’s Project Zero, is dubbed CVE 2016-3861, and allows malicious actors to execute local privileges. He says it’s an ‘extremely serious bug’.