This new Android vulnerability can brick your smartphones, and why it's very risky

It looks as if several million Android smartphones are at threat due to a new-observed vulnerability that can handiest be fixed with Android’s December 2019 protection update. As referred to within the December 2019 Android Security Bulletin, there are three foremost vulnerabilities. Of those, one has been categorized as ‘the most intense’ via Google. The search giant explains that this could allow a hacker to create unmarried malicious message which could lead to a permanent ‘Denial of Service’ assault.

 In the December 2019 Android Bulletin, the vulnerability is named as ‘CVE-2019-2232’. As defined inside the professional NIST National Vulnerability Database description, the vulnerability wishes no person interaction to prompt and take advantage of the Android telephone. It also doesn’t require any extra execution privileges.

What makes the brand new vulnerability even greater critical is the range of devices it impacts. According to Google, CVE-2019-2232 is said to have an effect on all of the smartphones that are running Android eight.0, Android 8.1, Android 9 and even the modern Android 10. Although the restore is given within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository, it can nonetheless take pretty some time to reach the quit-users and their handsets. 

The rollout of the repair relies upon at the device OEMs which include Samsung, Vivo, Asus, OnePlus and more. 

For instance, as stated through Samsung in the Security Updates web page’s December phase, “While we are doing our first-class to supply the safety patches as soon as viable to all applicable models, transport time of protection patches may additionally range depending on the regions and fashions.” One can count on that Google Pixel telephones will get hold of the update quicker than others. The company’s ‘Pixel Update Bulletins’ web page states, “Google gadgets start receiving OTA updates on the identical day the monthly bulletin is launched. In wellknown, it takes about one and a 1/2 calendar weeks for the OTA to attain each Google device.” 

You can take a look at for the December update inyour smartphones through navigating via Settings > About Phone