Billions of Android Devices Open to 'Dirty Stream' Attack

[https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/billions-android-devices-open-dirty-stream-attack](https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/billions-android-devices-open-dirty-stream-attack)

"..Among them were Xiaomi Inc.'s File Manager product, which has more than 1 billion installations, and WPS Office with some 500 million downloads.

Microsoft said vendors of both products have already fixed the issue. But it believes there are more apps out there that are fallible to exploit and compromise because of the same security weakness. "We anticipate that the vulnerability pattern could be found in other applications"

Chinese apps - Xiaomi File manager and WPS office and possibly …

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