Linux TCP vulnerability still in Android Nougat

Lookout Security is relaying some new discussion of a vulnerability in the Linux 3.6 and later kernels. An estimated 80 percent of the Android user base (going all the way to KitKat) or 1.4 billion devices are under the gun of this off-path exploit.In other words, this is not Quadrooter.In a joint presentation at the USENIX Security Symposium, researchers at the Univerity of California, Riverside, and the United States Army Research Labratory were concerned about ...

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