Google Android Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-07413)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA. A local elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in System UI Tuner in Android version 7.0. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to modify the protection settings of...

CVE-2016-3861

LibUtils in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 mishandles conversions between Unicode character encodings with different encoding widths, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of...

What is Strictly Enforced Verified Boot in Android 7.0 Nougat?

As far as security is concerned, Google is going very strict with the newest version of its mobile operating system. Until now, Google has not done more than just alerting you of the potential threats when your Android device runs the check as part of the boot process. Android Marshmallow 6.0 doe...