Researchers from Bluebox Security announced that the Android operating system has been vulnerable to hackers for the past four years. The bug hasn’t, so far, been spotted being exploited in the wild, but technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit have been published for a recently announced publicly by Pau Oliva Fora, a mobile security engineer at security firm ViaForensics. Google has also released a fix for this particular critical vulnerability, and released to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/07/android-hacking-vulnerability-exploit.html