Although security researchers often find bugs in Apple's iOS mobile operating system, it's also worth noting that Google's Android operating system isn't without its faults either. A recent vulnerability that researchers are calling 'Stagefright' has made headlines and is pretty huge, affecting nearly 950 million handsets in the hands of consumers today.
Stagefright is a nasty vulnerability that gives anyone with your phone number a way to compromise your Android device, so long as it's running Android 2.2 Froyo or later. It also affects Android Lollipop 5.1.1.
With this vulnerability, someone with your phone number can send you a media file that exploits a process in the way the operating system reads and plays the media file. With that, they can run remote code, and they can do so again and again.
As AppleInsider reports, although Zimperium zLabs reported the issue to Google and Google implemented the necessary patches, many Android device users are unable to update to a later version of Android OS with the fix because restrictions implemented by manufacturers of the devices are hindering the ability to update the operating system with the latest patches.
In other words, it could be a really hard time for Google getting the proper fixes out to these Android OS users and the Android OS users are in a good deal of danger from the vulnerability until the fixes are available to them.
Source: AppleInsider
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