Monday, December 9, 2013

Android forkbomb


Recently, we found that it is possible to freeze any Android device with a simple forkbomb attack.

Not really exciting, however it is strange that a forkbomb is not considered a security issue by Google, whereas this is (and it has been patched, by removing a functionality that was originally intended to be used).

For more details, read this blogpost here.

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