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A large percentage of Android devices is affected by security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to easily gain a Root Access.
According to experts at TrendMicro a large percentage of Android devices in use today is affected by security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to easily gain a root access.
The attack allows an ill-intentioned to escalate the privileges of any code that is executed on a target device, however, this attack scenario sees an attacker having installed his malicious code onto the device in the first place. Android users need to be very careful of installing any mobile apps from untrusted sources.
Below the description provided by TrendMicro for the CVE-2016-0819 and CVE-2016-0805 flaws discovered by its experts:
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