Google Patches Quadrooter Vulnerabilities in Android

The Quadrooter vulnerabilities made a lot of people take notice because the scale of affected Android devices more than 900,000 put it on a level with Stagefright and other bugs that impact a large majority of the Android ecosystem. Some details on the four vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed...

CVE-2016-5340

The isashmemfile function in drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c in a certain Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android patch for the Linux kernel 3.x mishandles pointer validation within the KGSL Linux Graphics Module, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by using the /ashmem...