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-2016-2059

The CVE-2016-2059 issue affects the Linux kernel IPC router module (msm_ipc_router_bind_control_port) in the IPC router core for kernel 3.x used in Qualcomm QuIC Android MSM devices. The vulnerability arises because the function does not verify that a port is a client port, enabling a local attac...