Wednesday January 28, 2015
Core Security discovered a security flaw affecting most devices with Android operating system and restart causes.
Smartphones, digital cameras, game consoles, computers and printers with version 4.4 of Android, ie, KitKat, would be among those affected.
The problem arises when you turn the Wi-Fi Direct option is used to connect two devices simultaneously, without requiring a wireless network.
If you receive a package then “WPA_suplicant” flawed, which is the protocol that allows the connection between the inalmámbrico driver and operating system, a situation of denial of service be experienced.
This would cause the resumption of Android terminals at the time that the search for another device starts to synchronize and this receives a request for invalid connection.
Experts warned signature failure to Google from previous September, but this was rated as low level, so they decided to make it public.
Apparen tly Google’s position is that this is a very small period of time and that the only result is a device reset, without risking the information contained in the apparatus.
However, it is still a security breach that affects a large majority of people with version 4.4 of Android.
Although it is unknown whether there will be a patch to solve this problem, so if it is a fact is that the problem no longer appears on Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Johnny Castro
jcastro@larepublica.net
No comments:
Post a Comment