Earlier it was Zimperium that informed about the Stagefright flaw affecting nearly 950 million (95%) smartphone across the globe, and now its Trend Micro turns to come up with another security flaw in the Android mediaservice which can cause your smartphone to become unresponsive. As compare to Stagefright bug, this new vulnerability affects Android versions 4.3 and above. So statistically 56.8% users are affected to this flaw. According to security researcher from Trend Micro, attackers can exploit the vulnerability using a malicious app installed and running on the user's device, or by accessing a URL where a malformed media file is hosted. For demonstration purpose, researcher choked the mediaserver service using a malformed MKV file. The issue exists in the way mediaserver service reads data from a Matroska media container, which is used with the .mkv extension. <more>
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