Sentences with word «mediaserver»

As Google notes, «Gaining code execution in libstagefright previously granted access to all the permissions and resources available to the monolithic mediaserver process including graphics driver, camera driver, or sockets, which present a rich kernel attack surface.

This kind of separation means that any future vulnerabilities would be confined to a much smaller part of the system rather than the whole mediaserver gamut.

Google also said it's updated its Hangouts and Messenger apps so that they don't automatically process video messages in the background «so that media is not automatically passed to mediaserver process.»

At present, only one of the cores is active, while a mediaserver app has been found to be taking up the lions share of the CPU cycles.

These efforts are not just restricted to the mediaserver either, with Google promising that «these hardening techniques — and others — are being actively applied to additional components within Android.»

This is done through a buffer overflow in the mediaserver service which is the way Android indexes its media files.

«We know that there were targeted attacks using vulnerabilities in libstagefright and mediaserver,» he said.