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What Consequences for Anfroid?

Posted Sep 15, 2010 13:59 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: What Consequences for Anfroid? by kentborg
Parent article: Severe Adobe Flash vulnerability

There have been a number of kernel vulnerabilities reported over the last few months. Are you sure that the kernel on your Android phone has been patched for all of them? I'm not. As a result, I have a hard time seeing why I'd want that player on my phone regardless of how much faith I might have in the higher-level access control mechanisms.

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What Consequences for Android?

Posted Sep 15, 2010 14:11 UTC (Wed) by kentborg (guest, #70128) [Link]

> There have been a number of kernel vulnerabilities
> reported over the last few months. Are you sure that
> the kernel on your Android phone has been patched for
> all of them?

Good point. (And reminiscent of an argument I have heard from Brad Spengler.)

But *otherwise* wouldn't the Android design make this far less damaging than the relatively anything-goes case of running Flash on a more conventional installation of Linux?

-kb