A billion Android cell phones and tablets are at danger from another bug that can contaminate gadgets when they see sound or video records, a group of security specialists have cautioned.

The security imperfection conveys huge numbers of the same components as the instant message Stagefright bug that was found in July and was seen as the greatest opening in Android security ever reported.

Analysts at Zimperium zLabs, which reported the first bug, have named it Stagefright 2.0, and cautioned that it can influence "each Android gadget" since rendition 1 in 2008

Simply by utilizing Android's review capacity to listen to or watch an exceptionally made MP3 or MP4 record, programmers could get to an Android gadget's code and roll out improvements remotely, and in principle could track or take data.

Clients could be tricked into going to URLs that initiate Android's sneak peak capacity, or maybe all the more worryingly, the flaw could be misused if a programmer and casualty were on the same open Wi-Fi system, for example, a café.

"The helplessness lies in the preparing of metadata inside of the records so just reviewing the melody or video would trigger the issue," the analysts composed.

"Since the essential assault vector of MMS has been uprooted in more up to date variants of Google's Hangouts and Messenger applications, the reasonable assault vector would be by means of the Web program."

The two vulnerabilities - one which influences all Android gadgets and another that can assault those running Android 5.0 upwards - have been hailed to Google, which said it had imparted a redesign to Android makers.

It is additionally settling the bug for its own particular Nexus gadgets with a report on October 5. Zimperium asked Android producers to fix the issues at the earliest opportunity.

The first Stagefright bug surfaced in July, and misused an imperfection in Google's talk applications
Hangouts and Messenger when they were sent sight and sound video documents.

Google raced to alter the bug, settling both applications, albeit some more established forms of Android did not get the redesigns

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Does this threat apply to all versions of android OS?

YEA,

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Does this threat apply to all versions of android OS?