Google cyber researchers detect vulnerabilities in millions of Android smartphones

Google’s Project Zero team known for their eagle-eye research work on security vulnerabilities in smartphones and PCs, has detected a security loophole in several million Android handsets around the world.

The research report says that only the phones with ARM-based Mali GPU driver in Exynos, MediaTek, and Tensor chipsets are under threat, and others with Qualcomm silicon, are said to be safe.

“By forcing the kernel to reuse these pages as page tables, an attacker with native code execution in an app context could gain full access to the system, bypassing Android’s permissions model and allowing broad access to user data,” the Google research team noted.