Android apps targeted by new Dirty Stream attack

BleepingComputer reports that numerous Android apps with over four billion downloads are susceptible to the novel Dirty Stream attack, which involves the exploitation of a flaw in Android's content provider system that could enable arbitrary code execution and secrets compromise.

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