A new set of Android security vulnerabilities has been discovered in Qualcomm chipsets that affect more than 900 Million Android smartphones and tablets worldwide. The vulnerabilities have been disclosed by a team of researchers at the DEF CON 24 security conference in Las Vegas. If any one of the four flaws is exploited, an attacker can trigger privilege escalations for gaining root access to an affected device. Three of the vulnerabilities have already been fixed in Google’s latest set of monthly security updates, and the remaining flaw will be rolled out in the upcoming September update.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/hack-android-phone.html