Wednesday, December 15, 2010

There were slain and Android kernel 88 high-risk vulnerability

According to foreign media reports, the United States software analysis company Coverity announced Monday, Android in large amounts of vulnerability in the kernel, including 88 high-risk vulnerability, there may cause user disclosure of sensitive information.

Coverity will publish details on Tuesday.

The company's analysis of the object is a version of the Android operating system 2.6.32 kernel, such as mobile phone hongdadian Droid Incredible use of the system. Results show that the system has 359 software vulnerability, of which 25% were identified as high risk vulnerability might import safety issues, and system crashes.

A total of 291 Coverity makes extensive use of open source projects, involving more than 61 million lines of code.

In addition to the Android, Linux, Apache, Samba, and PHP.

Coverity had to Google and the Android Hongdadian notification.

If confirmed, these vulnerabilities will be fixed via a wireless upgrade.

Regardless of what the user, the message is vigilance, particularly enterprise users.

According to the United Kingdom market research firm Canalys report, released Monday, the current in the United States occupy Android 44% market share, the majority of the increase came from RIM's decline, the latter term by enterprise customers.

Specifically, according to the United States market research company NPD data, Android in the United States sold Smartphone in occupies more than from the second quarter of the 33% growth in the third quarter of 44%, 28% are from the RIM down to 22%.

Since Android in the enterprise market influence gradually increases, Google last week has just launched a brand new control tools to help enterprises manage Android device.

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