The bug reared its head again in 2015 and was given the vulnerability identifier CVE-2015-1805 in February 2015.
Repairing the rig would require reflashing the operating system.
Google has also released aunscheduled patch for its own Nexus productsto protect them from being exploited in the wild.
Google then confirmed that a publicly available rooting app could also compromise the Nexus 6.
The company has also updated the Android Verify Apps security feature to detect the rooting apps.
Google notes that it has not seen the rooting apps being used for exploitation that it considered malicious.
For a unit to be compromised, the user would need to implement the rooting app manually.
Google has also issued a patch to other Android handset makers like LG, Samsung, HTC etc.
on March 16 and also released fixes for vulnerable kernels in the Android Open Source Project.
source: www.techworm.net
