Google has a solution to the MMS security hole in Android – Pplware

The discovery of Stagefright, a very serious problem affecting the Android came alert the community to the vulnerability that exists in this service and in particular on Android.

But Google, responsible for Android, decided deal with the problem immediately and has already being prepared the security updates for its Nexus devices.

The Stagefright affects all versions of Android and why it is considered one of the biggest security problems affecting this operating system.

With a simple MMS attackers can run malicious code on any Android device, after having access to any information of users.

The problem lies in the fact that Android processing the contents so the message is received, creating thumbnail images and videos, without the user having to even download these contents.

So that was made public Google recognized the problem and indicated that it would begin the process correction of the same.

These corrections have already been sent to the company’s partners and prepare now to be launched for Google devices, the Nexus.

This vulnerability was identified in a laboratory setting on older Android devices, and the far as we know, no one Has Been affected. As soon as we Were made aware of the vulnerability we redbourn immediate action to fix and sent to our partners to protect users …

The part of the regularly scheduled security update, we plan to push further safeguards to Nexus devices starting next week. And, we’ll be releasing it in open source When the details are made public by the researcher at BlackHat.

It is expected that over the next week appears an update on Nexus that will solve the Stagefright, included in normal security improvements the company releases.

Google will launch later this hotfix to the Android Open Source Project (ASOP), to be incorporated into future updates and for other distributions can also incorporate.

In addition to the Google also other companies are already solving the Stagefright. The Cyanogen announced it will launch this weekend updates for your ROMs to remedy the problem.

The Stagefright is one of the most serious problems that have emerged in recent times. With a simple MMS any smartphone is compromised.

Even with these updates released by Google and other manufacturers, thousands of devices and users will be disadvantaged by not going to have access to them.

The Android fragmentation remains their biggest problem and it is in these situations that manifests and shows their impact.