X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities • Hacker News Board

Re: X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities

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Post by jonoberheide » Mon, Jul 23, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

ryanhuff wrote: post #6

jonoberheide wrote: post #2

X-Ray author here, happy to answer any questions folks have!

Why haven't you published this to the Google Play store?

We'd love to be able to publish it in the Play Store, but we were informed by Google that the terms of service disallow any apps that check for vulnerabilities, despite X-Ray's good intentions.

It's a weird distinction that they allow AV-like apps, but not vulnerability assessment apps.

Re: X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities

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Post by jonoberheide » Mon, Jul 23, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

dlokshin wrote: post #3

Just ran it on my Nexus S with 4.1 and everything is patched. Currious to see how the HTC / Samsung's that are not Nexus devices fare.

4.1 is definitely the most secure Android you can be running currently.

We posted about some of the security improvements in Jelly Bean 4.1 last week:

https://blog.duosecurity.com/2012/07/exploit-mitigations-in-...

Re: X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities

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Post by kaolinite » Mon, Jul 23, 2012, 4:32 PM UTC

Samsung S2 here (running latest update to ICS). All patched, no vulns. I'm actually a little disappointed in a way :-P

Re: X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities

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Post by JangoSteve » Mon, Jul 23, 2012, 4:34 PM UTC

Motorola Droid Bionic, running latest official carrier update, vulnerable to Gingerbreak :-\

Re: X-Ray scans your Android device for unpatched vulnerabilities

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Post by jonoberheide » Mon, Jul 23, 2012, 4:42 PM UTC

ad0nis wrote: post #10

seanponeil wrote: post #4

Galaxy Nexus running CM9 RC1 is vulnerable to Mempodroid :(

CM9 RC1 is supposed to be running 4.0.4, right? Shouldn't that have been patched already? Though it also appears they have some bigger issues, like everything you type going out to the debug logs, passwords included. You should report this on their issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/list

If anyone can quickly point me at the CM9 kernel source, I can verify whether or not this is actually patched.

The vulnerability is looking checking to see if the mem_write() function is functional (where the vulnerability was present), which was removed/disabled by upstream AOSP.