Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image

Re:Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Maliciou... by jsight on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @09:39AM (#19143767)

That is really only an issue for low-level drivers and kernel level issues. There is nothing stopping OS vendors from fixing this without updating the drivers.

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Re:Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Maliciou... by IshKebab on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @04:35PM (#19147775)

There is for Linux because it doesn't have a stable driver ABI. The drivers and the kernel are inseparable.

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Re:Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Maliciou... by jsight on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:04PM (#19156417)

I never said otherwise. But the most critical android vulnerabilities are almost always fixable in userspace.

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