Android Telephony Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Telephony is one of the components that provides telephony functionality. The internal/telephony/PhoneSubInfoController.java file in Telephony in versions 5.x prior to Android 5.1.1 LMY49H...

CVE-2016-0831

The getDeviceIdForPhone function in internal/telephony/PhoneSubInfoController.java in Telephony in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 does not check for the READPHONESTATE permission, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0831

The getDeviceIdForPhone function in internal/telephony/PhoneSubInfoController.java in Telephony in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 does not check for the READPHONESTATE permission, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka...

Google Play Store Update Allows Apps to Silently Gain Control of Your Device

Google just made a huge change to the way application permissions work on Android devices which has left a potential door open to malicious app developers and hackers. Google narrows down Android's 145 permissions into 13 broad categories and groups app permissions into 'groups of related...