Security Holes in Google's Android SDK

[Fanatic]

Doh! Google's Android software development kit is using several outdated and vulnerable open-source image processing libraries, some of which can be exploited to take complete control of mobile devices running the Android platform. From the article: 'Several vulnerabilities have been found in Android's core libraries for processing graphic content in some of the most used image formats (PNG, GIF, and BMP). While some of these vulnerabilities stem from the use of outdated and vulnerable open source image-processing libraries, other were introduced by native Android code that uses them or that implements new functionality.

Seems like today I'm the bearer of bad news.

[Yahooligan]

It's still not available to the general public! I don't think this is reason to worry, at least not yet. I bet by the time it's available to us regular people, they will have sorted out most of those problems.

Although it does raise an interesting issue. This is designed to be an internet connected device (like the iPhone). A "standard" platform (i.e. Android) is more convenient to developers because they can easily support multiple devices. But it's also more convenient to hackers, eh?

[David]

Pretty sure android was a flop months ago...before it even went mainstream.